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Couples Therapy

Build greater understanding and resonance in your relationship with encouragement to re-find one another as you would like to be.

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Counseling for all Couples

I work with couples at the start of their relationship, at the end of their relationship, at crossroads, in love and in conflict. I am open and willing to work with any couple wishing to develop a compassionate understanding of themselves and their circumstances. The terrain covered may include hurt, sadness, loss, guilt, or anger. As an experienced “co-traveler,” I map where we’ve been, and look for new paths to healing, ongoing witnessing, and trust.

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My Approach with Couples

In couples therapy, I help you and your partner understand the complexities of your relationship’s struggles and how they affect your connection. We explore whether these issues have surfaced before in previous relationships or in family histories, and identify hopes and successes beyond the problem. From here, we work on strengthening your bond and reducing the issue’s influence on your relationship.

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Answering your Questions

How long is a session?

Couples sessions are 50-60 minutes. We can plan for additional time, as needed, to ensure our conversation ends at a good point to place a bookmark.

I prefer to meet with new clients on a weekly basis for at least 1-2 months. I find the regular time together to be important as we get to know one another. Nevertheless, we can assess frequency on a regular basis.

Yes! We all have differences between us. Communicating how we experience those differences can be both difficult and a big step forward together. I help facilitate these conversations.

Yes! Struggles can be present in staying together, and also in separating. Therapy is a space where you can bear witness to what the relationship has meant to one another, and thereby create greater possibility for leaving with dignity.

Doing so furthermore can lead to getting to know each other in different ways, for example as friends.

Yes! There is space for uncertainty and messiness in our conversations, just as there’s space for such in our daily lives (like it or not). In working together, we will access the many threads that contribute to your questions, make sense of any inconsistencies, and clarify your evolving hopes overtime.

Good therapy can happen in a single session, and over years. Each therapy is different in that way. We will discuss your progress towards meeting goals as we go.

Endings can be difficult, regardless. Our ending will be a joint decision, in which we go our separate paths. Those paths may end up converging again, should you want a future session or therapy.

There may be good reason to meet in both individual therapy and couples or family therapy. There is also good reason to not meet with the same provider for both.

Every situation deserves consideration, and I’d be happy to discuss the pros and cons with you and yours. Of note, there could be times in couples or family therapy where you or I request to meet individually for a session.

In such a case, doing so will be in the service of the couples or family therapy, and we will discuss how and what to bring from our conversation back into the couples or family therapy.

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