Couples Therapy

Many couples seek therapy when they find themselves stuck in the same pattern of conflict again or again, or when conflict escalates to a point that repairing and reconnecting is a major challenge. Couples’ therapy helps partners enhance their sense of safety to address difficult topics, get to the heart of the source of conflict to understand each other more completely, learn skills for more effective communication even in the context of disagreement or hurt, accept and even value points of difference in the relationship, and reconnect more effectively when conflict does occur.

Couples’ therapy also addresses when partners feel a sense of disconnection in the relationship. Sometimes this occurs after a long period of conflict without resolution— couples retreat to their own corners. Sometimes this happens after a long period of partners needing to lean into other areas of their life (career, parenting, caregiving) and realizing that connection doesn’t come as naturally as it used to. Therapy provides a space to address the barriers that lead to disconnection in the first place and to rekindle the love and friendship partners once shared.

Couple's therapy for partners who wish to repair their relationship following infidelity focused on rebuilding trust, understanding and repairing dynamics in the relationship, and reconnecting in the love partners share for each other. Partners leave couples’ therapy with a deeper sense of factors that contributed to infidelity occurring, greater confidence that these things are now different, and an enhanced sense of connection to each other.

We treat partners who are experiencing challenges in their relationship related to pregnancy or infertility, the transition to parenthood, or maintaining their romantic relationship in the context of parenting challenges (including managing children’s behavioral or mental health difficulties). We additionally treat couples who are experiencing challenges related to transition in family roles (e.g., children leaving the nest, retirement). Finally, couples’ therapy can be an excellent place to address challenging dynamics in the extended family or with in-laws.

We support couples in which one partner is recovering from trauma, addiction, or mental illness. We provide both couples’ care that is sensitive to the needs of partners working to improve their own mental health, as well as conjoint treatments for post-traumatic stress and problem drinking, to help individuals make change in one of the most important contexts in their life— their closest relationships.

Couples’ therapy can address a range of sexual difficulties, including sexual disconnection, performance difficulties, and mismatched libidos. Therapy is trauma-informed and affirming of the wide range of healthy human sexual expression.