Couples Therapy
We all get stuck, face difficult impasses, feel overwhelmed or just plain dissatisfaction in ourselves and our significant relationships. Sometimes:
- We have been trying to fix the same fight for a while but can’t seem to get anywhere!
- We feel happy and accomplished but struggle to share with each other.
- Don’t want to bring up important topics out of fear they will cause an argument.
- Feel we are good roommates or parents but don’t feel any desire to connect as lovers or at an intimate level.
- Feel lonely. Any time we try to talk about things, feel overwhelmed or unheard.
- Trust has been breached
- Feel that ‘I’m not enough for you or us.
Making sense and working through these stuck places that might be embedded in trauma, painful patterns and negative cycles of interaction can feel overwhelming and sometimes, hopeless. In the past 20 years, I have trained extensively in providing evidence-based, short term, skill-based therapy to help couples rekindle love, desire and intimacy in their relationships. My advance training in Imago Relationship, Systems and Emotionally Focused Therapies helps couples lean into discomfort in a safe way, improve communication to deepen emotional, sexual desire and physical connection. Whether we are repairing an attachment injury, such as an affair, or doing pre-marital therapy or addressing physical intimacy related issues; I will work with you to identify dysfunctional patterns of interactions, feel understood, and learn to repair/recover from painful experiences. Average treatment time around 12-15 sessions.
Therapy can help couples with issues such as:
- Communication difficulties
- Lack of emotional and physical intimacy.
- Issues related to lack of sexual desire.
- Constant bickering, fighting and feeling unheard and misunderstood.
- Affairs (romantic, casual, emotional, cyber, accidental, or exit)
- Anger management
- Parenting
- Pre-marital and post-natal therapy
- In-laws and extended family
- Dual-career management
- Finances
- Religious, social and cultural concerns