​​Couples and families often come to therapy because something in their relationships keeps getting activated in ways that feel painful, familiar, or difficult to resolve on their own.

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Our closest relationships have a way of bringing deeper relational patterns to the surface. Earlier wounds, protective strategies, family roles, and unmet needs can become mirrored between us, often creating cycles that no one consciously intends.

While these patterns can create disconnection, they can also offer a powerful opportunity for deeper healing. My work with couples and families focuses on understanding what is happening beneath the conflict, while helping each person develop greater awareness, responsibility, and the capacity for more connected and authentic relationships.

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A SOMATIC AND RELATIONAL APPROACH

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Relationship conflict does not only happen through words. It also happens through the nervous system.

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When we feel hurt, unseen, or threatened, we may become flooded, shut down, defensive, critical, or disconnected.

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My training in somatic psychotherapy, including Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, helps couples and families slow these reactions down and become more aware of what is happening in the body and between one another in real time.

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RELATIONAL LIFE THERAPY

My work with relationships is also informed by Relational Life Therapy (RLT), developed by Terry Real.

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RLT is an active and relational approach that helps us understand the protective strategies and relational patterns we bring into our closest relationships, while also taking responsibility for how those patterns affect one another.

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The work supports greater honesty, accountability, connection, and the ability to repair when things go wrong.

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COUPLES & FAMILY THERAPY MAY HELP YOU

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• understand recurring patterns of conflict

• communicate needs more directly

• reduce defensiveness, withdrawal, or escalation

• strengthen emotional connection

• repair after conflict or rupture

• create healthier boundaries

• understand & shift familiar relational roles

• build greater intimacy, trust, mutual respect

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WHAT IT'S LIKE TO WORK WITH ME

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My style is engaged, collaborative, and active.

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Together, we will slow down the patterns happening between you, explore the conditioning, relational wounds, and roles each person brings into the relationship, and begin to understand how these patterns may be getting in the way of deeper connection.

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The goal is not simply to communicate better, but to create relationships that feel more connected, honest, and alive.

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