Couples Therapy

Being in an intimate relationship is beautifully fulfilling. Our relationships bring us companionship, support, friendship and intimacy. Yet, our intimate relationships are hard to navigate alongside everyday concerns- paying bills, working, children and family. In addition to communication breakdowns, misunderstandings, hurt feelings, unmet needs and resentment.

Couples therapy provides a space to explore what is troubling you in your relationship and to make sense of what is going wrong with the help of your therapist. Couples sessions can help improve your connection with your partner and give you the skills to deal with future challenges.

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How can couples therapy help your relationship?

Increased friendship and intimacy, support, respect, affection and compassion
Learn skills to approach and manage conflict
Improve communication and the ability to attune to each other's needs

Understand how past relational hurt impact your self-worth and confidence
Shift unhealthy cycles
Uncover each partner's emotional needs
Work with each other's attachment style and your comfort with closeness and distance

Conflict and communication

Intimacy and Eroticism

External stressors

Emotional Disconnection

Mental Health

Parenthood

Trust & Resentment

Couples Therapy Approaches

Gottman Method Couples Therapy

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Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy

The Gottman method helps couples across economic, racial, sexual orientation and diverse cultural backgrounds. The goals of Gottman Method Couples Therapy are to improve verbal communication, decrease conflict, improve intimacy, respect, friendship and affection and create more empathy and understanding within your partnership.

Frequent conflict and arguments
Poor communication
Emotionally distanced couples
Specific problems such as mental or physical health challenges, infidelity, household disagreements and parenting

The goal of EFT is to improve attachment and bonding in adult relationships and helps couples with conflict, distress and communication challenges.

Internal Family Systems

Integrative Sex Therapy

Internal Family Systems is a therapeutic approach developed by Dr. Richard Schwartz, which posits that individuals have various "parts" within themselves, each with its own thoughts, feelings, and motivations.

When applied to couples therapy, an exploration of how each partner's inner parts impact the relationship and how these parts interact with each other. These parts might include protective parts that get defensive, vulnerable parts that need reassurance and critical parts that find fault.

Sessions involve exploring how your parts interact with your partners.
Couples learn to recognize when their parts are triggered by each other and how these interactions escalate conflicts.
They work on communicating their needs and feelings from a more grounded and aware state, rather than reacting from triggered parts.

**I ask that you read this book as we work together.*

*Sessions can include discussions of sexual concerns, however, I do not provide exclusive Sex Therapy. I am a certified Sex Therapy Informed Therapist.

Healthy sexuality is an important part of a fulfilling relationship. Integrative Sex Therapy integrates different therapeutic approaches to address sexual concerns within couples therapy that include emotional, relational, and psychological aspects of sexuality.

Enhance eroticism, intimacy and passion.

-Esther Perel