Couples Counseling
I specialize in helping couples navigate and enhance their relationships by focusing on essential aspects of connection and communication. I support those who want to learn effective strategies for ensuring both partners get more of what they desire and who seek to shift from making complaints to making constructive requests.
For couples who struggle to repair their relationship, I guide them in communicating with love and clarity. I also help those feeling trapped in recurring conflicts by offering tools to break the cycle and address ongoing issues.
Additionally, I guide clients in establishing healthy boundaries, both personally and within their relationships, while fostering trust, open communication, and transformative change.
“Boundaries help us to clearly communicate who we are, in alignment with our values. It may seem paradoxical, but boundaries help us to connect to others. Doing boundary work is an act of love for both self and other people.”
— Jules Shore, Setting Boundaries That Stick
Couples Intensive
TLDR: What skills will we practice?
Clearly identify what a healthy, happy relationship means to you and your partner
Understand what you are doing that might be helpful in other relationships, but not this one
Learn how to set boundaries with yourself and others so that you can be connected and protected
Practice skills that promote healthy self-esteem, relational esteem, and compassion
Identify one or more problematic patterns in how you interact and communicate
Talk about practices that will help interrupt those unhelpful patterns
Practice and learn new ways of relating that will provide a foundation for healthy patterns to grow and thrive
Co-create a plan for how to maintain relational health and well-being once our intensive concludes
Couples Intensive
What is an intensive?
Before we begin, I meet with both partners to explore whether an intensive is the right fit for your relationship. Intensive work involves meeting for longer sessions—typically 2–3 hours at a time—without exceeding 20 hours total. This format allows us to do several months’ worth of therapeutic work within 5–6 weeks. After completing the intensive, we schedule 2–3 follow-up sessions to support your progress and help you integrate what you’ve learned.
The cost of an intensive is based on my hourly rate of $225, with a total investment of $4,500. A $400 initial payment is required to reserve your spot, and that amount is applied toward your first session.
What skills will we practice?
Together, we identify what a healthy, fulfilling relationship looks like for each of you and for your partnership as a whole. We explore the habits you may have developed in past relationships that once served a purpose but may no longer be helpful here. From there, we begin building skills that support connection and protection, including learning to set boundaries with both yourself and others.
We’ll practice tools that strengthen self-esteem, relational esteem, and compassion. We also name and understand the patterns that are creating disconnection or conflict, and talk through ways to interrupt those unhelpful cycles. Throughout our work, you’ll learn new ways of relating that allow healthier patterns to take root and thrive. Together, we end by co-creating a plan to sustain relational health and well-being long after the intensive concludes.