COUPLES

Couples come into therapy for a wide range of reasons. With my specialty treating sex-related concerns and sex/porn addiction, couples often seek my support due to a dissatisfying sex life or after devastating emotional/sexual betrayals.

Are you or your partner struggling with sex, porn, or infidelity? Have you found yourselves stuck in a cycle of feeling disconnected or having the same arguments? Do you sometimes think your partner does not “get it” and feel confused about how they process things? Underneath the conflict, we all want to feel heard, understood, and appreciated by our partner. We want to know that our partner has our back.

I encourage you to begin couples therapy with your partner the first time either one of you considers it. The longer the gap between your first conversation about couples therapy and your first couples therapy session, the more work you will likely need to do together. It is never too early to go to couples therapy - better to be proactive rather than reactive. Unfortunately, many couples wait until their relationship is hanging on by a thread. While some of the couples I support are 3-5 years into their relationship, the majority of the couples I see have been together for 20-30+ years.

Couples therapy does not mean your relationship is a failure - it is an investment into yourselves and your relationship. It is saying, “We matter and our relationship matters.” What a beautiful gift! I create space and structure for you and your partner to communicate more openly and effectively as we work towards (re)building intimacy and connection.

I can support you and your partner with:

  • Restoring trust and intimacy

  • Healing from the pain of betrayal

  • Communicating assertively and effectively

  • Discussing sex with greater comfort and ease

  • Reigniting passionate sex

  • Managing sexual difficulties (e.g., painful sex, early ejaculation, delayed ejaculation, lack of desire + arousal)

  • Managing a sexless relationship

  • Impacts of asexuality

  • Discrepancy regarding being child-free vs. having children

  • Pregnancy and postpartum care

  • Miscarriages and infertility

  • Balancing work, children, and your relationship

  • Co-parenting effectively

  • Impacts of perimenopause and menopause on your relationship

  • Co-creating your ideal relationship agreement

  • Impacts of neurodiversity on your relationship

  • LGBTQIA+ affirmative care

  • Nontraditional relationships (e.g., polyamory, consensual non-monogamy)

  • Practicing safe BDSM and kink

  • Premarital counseling

  • Conscious uncoupling and therapeutic separation