Couples Therapy

"The quality of your relationships determines the quality of your life."

— Esther Perel

Couples therapy is collaborative work between you, your partner, and your therapist, focused on strengthening how you connect, communicate, and navigate challenges together. Whether you're working through a specific conflict, rebuilding trust, or simply want to deepen your connection, sessions offer a supportive space to be honest with each other and with yourselves. Your therapist doesn't take sides; they help create the conditions for both partners to be heard and understood. We utilize several different types of therapy, dependent on your therapist and your relationship's needs. Learn more about how we approach couples therapy below.

  • Emotion Focused Therapy

    Focuses on the emotional bonds and cycles between partners, helping you identify the vulnerable feelings underneath conflict so you can respond to each other with more understanding instead of defensiveness.

  • Gottman Therapy

    Some therapists draw on aspects of Gottman therapy, an approach that uses decades of relationship research to build practical skills for managing conflict, deepening friendship, and creating shared meaning as a couple.

  • Solution Focused Brief Therapy

    Centers on your strengths and the future you want as a couple, rather than dwelling on what's gone wrong. Sessions focus on practical, actionable steps toward the relationship you're working to build.

  • Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) for Couples

    Focuses on the connection between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors within your relationship, helping you identify unhelpful patterns of thinking and reacting to each other and replace them with more balanced, constructive ones.

  • Narrative Therapy

    Helps you and your partner separate your identities from the problem, reframing "you vs. me" into "us vs. the problem" so you can face challenges together as a team rather than adversaries.

  • Communication breakdown

  • Infidelity/betrayal recovery

  • Trust issues

  • Intimacy and connection

  • Premarital counseling

  • Conflict resolution

  • Life transitions as a couple (having a baby, moving, retirement)

  • Financial stress in relationships

  • Blended family/step-parenting dynamics

  • Divorce/separation counseling

  • Sexual dysfunction/desire discrepancy

  • Attachment and relational patterns

  • Codependency

  • Emotional disconnection

  • Parenting disagreements

Areas We Support:

Who We Work With:

We welcome all relationship structures into our therapy space and honor your partnership. Many of our therapists have specific populations they have specialized in through their education and experience. In addition to traditional relationships, we welcome:

  • Ethically non-monogamous (ENM) and polyamorous individuals

  • Kink-identified individuals

  • Queer and LGBTQIA+ couples

  • Co-parenting partnerships

  • Platonic life partners

Meet The Therapists!

The Couples Therapy Process

Consultation & Intake

Therapy begins with a brief 30 minute phone call with both partners present, followed by a 90 minute intake session where the therapist gathers background information, history, current stressors, and reasons for seeking therapy.

Individual Sessions

Following the first few sessions, your therapist will hold an individual session with each partner. It gives each of you space to share history, context, or concerns that are harder to voice together, and helps your therapist understand what each of you brings into the relationship. It also allows time to focus on individual patterns like attachment style or emotional triggers. These sessions support the work you do together; they don't replace it.

Working Phase

As therapy progresses, you'll work on understanding the origin of relational patterns, process emotional pain, rebuild trust, change communication patterns, and shift long-standing dynamics. Your therapist may provide you with “homework” between sessions, such as specific exercises, conversations, or behaviors designed to continue the work done in session.

Maintenance

Session focus shifts building new patterns and skills and instead focuses on ongoing application of changes you want to make in your relationship. Your therapist’s goal is for both of you to feel confident in your ability to work on relationship concerns without therapist intervention. Some couples choose periodic check-ins, while others conclude therapy when ready, with the option to return as needed.