Couples Counseling

Better conversations. Greater understanding. Stronger connection.

Couples counseling provides a structured environment to slow down recurring patterns, understand each person's experience, and work toward healthier communication and connection. My approach is Gottman-informed and focuses on practical skills couples can use to change the patterns that keep them stuck.

A Gottman-informed, skills-based approach

Learn new ways to communicate—and challenge the patterns that keep repeating.

Good intentions are not always enough to change a relationship. In counseling, we work to identify the behaviors and interaction cycles that fuel conflict, distance, defensiveness, or misunderstanding. Rather than simply revisiting the same arguments, we practice more effective ways to speak, listen, respond, and repair.

Build practical communication skills

Express concerns clearly and start difficult conversations more constructively
Listen to understand instead of preparing a counterargument
Reflect, validate, and check understanding before responding
Recognize emotional escalation and use pauses productively
Repair conflict and return to difficult conversations with greater care

Challenge your current patterns

We look honestly at each partner's contribution to the cycle—not to assign blame, but to identify what each person can change. A Gottman-informed framework helps guide attention toward friendship and connection, managing conflict, building trust, and replacing criticism, contempt, defensiveness, or withdrawal with healthier responses.

The goal is not to decide who is right. It is to help both partners understand the cycle, take responsibility for their part, and practice more constructive ways of relating in everyday life.

Common areas of focus

Communication and conflict
Trust and relationship repair
Emotional disconnection
Boundaries and expectations
Major life transitions
Infidelity and relationship disruption

A structured process