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Menu of Couples Counseling Approaches

Typically my therapy utilizes combinations of the below intervention styles

Attachment
Creating a secure bond in which the couple is attuned and responsive to the emotional needs of their partner

Co-Parenting
Helping parents to have a united and informed parenting strategy

Premarital Counseling
Building a strong foundation for a nurturing and fulfilling marriage

Narrative and Cognitive
Identifying how stories and thoughts impact the couple's relationship

Emotional Intelligence
Interventions catered towards increasing the aptitudes necessary to best meet the needs of your relationship

Mindfulness
Helping a couple to enjoy the present moment

Shared Meaning
Helping a couple to identify dreams and to prioritize life choices around their values and purposes

Playfulness and Adventure
Increasing a couples ability to engage the world with excitement, passion, and curiosity

Structural
helping the couples to build a family system that has boundaries and hierarchies which will best nurture the spousal relationship while also meeting the needs of the dependents

Cycle work
Identifying dysfunctional interactions patterns and substituting them with functional ways of relating with emotionally arousing topics

Family of Origin
Exploring the ways that our family history influences how we interact in our current relationships

Sexuality
Increasing relationship satisfaction and intimacy through fostering a more fulfilling sexual relationship

Differentiation
Building awareness of the the separate self to promote an emotionally balanced and regulated relationship

Values, Traditions, and Rituals
Helping the couple to intentionally and collaboratively create their own unique family culture

 Existential
Using the collaborative strength of the relationships to live purposeful and meaningful lives

Pragmatic | Strategic
develop linear strategies to solve concrete problems

A lasting happiness and sense of felt security arrives when a couples courageously allows themselves to be vulnerable enough with each other so as to seen for who they truly are... I work from an attachment base, which means that my counseling helps couples to grow a secure attachment (bond) with each other. I help people to deeply attune to the emotional needs of the relationship so that each individual's authentic self is known and nurtured.

I offer Couples Counseling to any set of people who are looking to expand upon or to heal in their relationship… a couple is something defined by the clients and held with respect, support and acceptance by the therapist. I provide a safe place for people of all sexual, cultural, spiritual, and gender identities to work on and to improve their relationship.

The Couples Counseling that I offer has the goal of improving a relationship. While in my safe therapeutic space, I will supportively hold your ambiguity, fear, or hurt, while gently pushing for the growth of a healthy and connected relationship.

Relationships are often tested at different times in our lives. There are many developmental milestones that can leave a couple in needs of support such as the birth of a child or the death of a parent. Couples counseling offers a place to process life changes where the therapist can ensure that emotional expression and beliefs are relayed in a way that helps the partner to hear the message with less defensiveness and with increased compassion and empathy.

We do very little to educate directly about various relationship dynamics, but we as a country have a wide array of influences that suggest how we should be interacting. Couples often benefit from my counseling as I can offer a place for the couple to stop being overly involved with what society suggests they “should do” so that they can allow themselves to create the unique relationship best suited to their specific needs and desires.