Relationship Therapy

I provide couples counseling from a sex-positive approach. I see couples for both sexual and non-sexual issues. In providing relationship therapy, I draw from both Gottman and Emotion-Focused approaches in much of my couples work. My goals are to increase constructive communication, empathy and perspective taking, and general sense of trust and well-being in the relationship. We work as a team to help you each to understand what you want, as well as how to share that with each other in a way that promotes empathy and listening, as opposed to defensiveness or the cold shoulder! While we are working through the problems, we also work to enhance the positive aspects of your relationship, as the absence of conflict does not in and of itself equal a good relationship. Parts of therapy are hard and require members of the couple to take a hard look at themselves and journey through some difficult changes, but we try to have some fun along the way too!