While relationships are central to our existence and well-being, experiencing challenges in our relationships is common.

Working with a therapist can help you better understand yourself and your partner, bringing harmony and balance to your relationship.  Our passion is to help you and your partner improve your intimate relationship, manage conflict better, cultivate deeper understanding and connection, repair and rebuild when there has been betrayal or distance in your relationship.  Also, we want to help both of you create greater shared meaning, dream more and have fun together!

All of our Therapists are Gottman-trained and use The Gottman Method for conducting assessments and our foundation when working with couples and relationships. After the assessment phase, our Therapists tailor their therapy with each couple, relationship, and system based on your needs, drawing from other relevant therapeutic models, such as Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT), Imago Therapy, Sex Therapy and other models.  We conduct a thorough assessment based on The Gottman Method with each couple and system before providing our feedback and treatment recommendations.  Just as a mechanic provides a diagnostic assessment before calling you with the required and recommended work and repairs, couples and relationship therapy is no different. A thorough assessment is needed before determining next steps.

At times, we may incorporate The 4 Horsemen and The Sound Relationship House into your relational therapy while guiding you through a number of exercises to promote better communication, de-escalation and less fights, resolution and healing, and greater connection and intimacy.  The Gottman's have devoted 40+ years in research in the area of couples therapy.  The Gottman Method is an evidence-based scientific and clinical model for couples therapy. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) is a scientifically supported method spanning over 30 years of research that centers on nurturing and strengthening the emotional bond among partners. Its focus lies in helping people recognize and comprehend the patterns of interaction that lead to distress in their relationship. EFT acknowledges the crucial role emotions play in shaping our experiences and behaviors within intimate relationships. The fundamental objective of EFT is to establish a secure and enduring emotional connection between partners.

Are you…

  • Feeling uncertain about taking your relationship to the next level?

  • Desiring pre-marital counseling?

  • Fighting about the same issues?

  • Asking yourself, "Is this it?"

  • Experiencing betrayal, lack of trust, or emotional or sexual infidelity?

  • Feeling the spark is gone or in a sexless relationship?

  • Wanting to explore your sexual relationship?

  • Struggling with parenting or co-parenting, and raising a healthy family?

  • In a relationship with a partner who struggles with an addiction or trauma?

  • Constantly in a dance of come here, go away?

  • Done with a relationship after the initial 'high' or limerence has faded?

  • Avoiding conflict and feeling distant from one another?

  • Facing communication difficulties?

  • Grappling with emotional and sexual intimacy issues?

  • Adjusting to a significant life change?

  • Struggling with infertility?

  • Experiencing grief and loss?

  • Preparing or adjusting to arrival of baby or facing postpartum depression?

  • Considering separation and divorce?

  • Thinking about testing out a temporary separation before committing to working on the relationship or seeking divorce?

For those contemplating separation or divorce, couples counseling can provide support and guidance, education, and tools to minimize conflict, increase understanding, and facilitate healing.