If you are interested in couples or family therapy for yourself or the ones you love, I strongly recommend you set up a free and confidential consultation to see if I would be a good fit for your relationship and/or family as a therapist. Follow this link to do so.
I mentioned on the individual therapy page that I’m a “nerd” for talk therapy. I’m an even bigger nerd for couples and family counseling. I once spoke about it for three and a half hours as a guest speaker in a graduate class with little preparation.
As of 2025 I have completed level I of Gottman training, and begun work on Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) as well as Intimacy From The Inside Out (IFIO). I am fully certified in Attachment Based Family Therapy (ABFT) With the knowledge of these frameworks, I use an eclectic approach to couples and family therapy to meet the unique needs of each situation.
Couples and family counseling is like an all you can eat buffet. There is SO MUCH to work with. It can be very empowering. To help explain what makes it so great, think of it like this: individual therapy focuses on the relationship between the therapist and the person receiving therapy. Couples and Family therapy focuses on the relationship between family members and partners. Real transformative change can happen in real time in each session. Individuals can carry that experience with them right out of the office and into the real world.
Always collaborative in nature, whether it’s couples work or family work, our goals will be clear at the outset of therapy.
Both couples and family work will involve sessions with individual members, but this is part of the relational therapy process and not to be confused with individual therapy. Discussions in that phase of therapy will be anchored to relationships. This is often a moving experience for those involved. For many it is the first time they have created space to examine and sit with newly recognized emotional patterns. As relieved spouse put it, “I never talked about talking before.”
After individual work, we return to work within the larger system- be it the family or a couple. Through out all tasks and phases of therapy, my role will be to hold up a metaphorical mirror to examine how you work through things and address any current “log jams.”
Early on in my career I knew this was the direction to go when a grandparent caring for his daughter and grandchildren said “we learned to say things that we should have been saying for years.”
As we progress, faulty ways of communicating, establishing boundaries will be examined amended. Balance and role delineation are key to making positive changes. Passion and interest can often get reignited.
. If you love and care for someone who needs help through counseling and therapy, you may have encountered his or her resistance to the suggestion of getting help. Being a willing participant in the therapeutic process yourself can be motivating. I assure you, this is a common occurrence. I wouldn’t encourage you to move forward with this process if I didn’t deeply believe that it is the people in our lives who help define us, empower us, and help us live to be the best possible versions of ourselves. Because of this, couples and family therapy is cosmic
It is my hope that we can meet for couples or family therapy to walk through the rough phases listed above. It can be a great way to bring about great changes on a large scale. Consider setting up an appointment by using this link.
