Couples

EFFECTIVE, RESERACH BASED COUPLES THERAPY

When you’re in the thick of raising young kids, it’s easy to get caught in the same arguments, feel more like co-parents than partners, or lose the sense of connection you once had.

I work with couples who want to strengthen their partnership — rebuilding trust, improving communication, and finding closeness again, even amid the stress and exhaustion that come with parenting and other big life transitions.

My approach is collaborative and grounded in evidence-based methods. I use both the Gottman Method and Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) — two powerful, research-based approaches to strengthening relationships.

We begin with a structured intake process, including a joint session and the Gottman Relationship Checkup — a detailed online assessment that identifies your relationship’s strengths and areas for growth. I also meet with each partner individually before we come back together for a feedback session to create a personalized roadmap for your work in therapy.

In our sessions, you'll bring your lived experience, and I’ll offer research and tools from the Gottman Method to help you communicate more effectively, navigate conflict, and rebuild emotional and physical intimacy. We’ll address patterns like criticism, defensiveness, stonewalling, and emotional disengagement, while building rituals of connection that reflect your shared values and goals.

Couples therapy isn’t about assigning blame — it’s about learning new ways to show up for each other. My role is to guide and support you as you create a stronger, more connected partnership that can weather challenges and grow over time.

Gottman Relationship Tools

As part of your work, you’ll have access to structured tools backed by decades of research:

Gottman Relationship Checkup: a clinical assessment that guides our work
Gottman Relationship Builder (optional add-on): access to a rich library of video-based lessons, tools, and exercises to support growth between sessions
Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work: targeted homework exercises that reinforce new communication and connection skills

These tools help turn insight into real-world change — inside and outside the therapy room.

Reference: Gottman, J.M & Silver, N. (2015) The seven principles for making marriage work. Harmony Books

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Additional areas of focus

Therapy for Military & Veteran Couples

With over 20 years as an active duty military spouse, I understand the deep resilience, sacrifice, and constant transition that military life demands. More recently, my own family has been navigating the shift from active duty to retired life—an experience that continues to shape my understanding of the emotional and practical complexities of service.

I offer therapy for individuals and couples connected to the military—creating a space to process the weight of deployments, frequent relocations, reintegration, and the ever-evolving sense of identity that military life brings. Together, we’ll explore how these transitions affect relationships, mental health, and daily life, while building tools for communication, connection, and personal resilience.

Therapy for Couples Navigating ADHD

ADHD can be both a spark and a strain in relationships. When one or both partners have ADHD, it often brings a mix of creativity, spontaneity, and deep focus—alongside challenges with distraction, forgetfulness, emotional regulation, or feeling misunderstood. These dynamics can lead to cycles of frustration, miscommunication, or self-doubt on both sides.

In therapy, we focus on harnessing the brilliance of a nonlinear mind while also building systems that support everyday life. Together, we’ll explore strategies that go beyond willpower: adjusting environments, co-creating routines, and caring for your brain as it is—not as it “should” be.

We’ll also work on reducing shame and blame, whether internal or within the relationship. Therapy becomes a space to move from self-criticism to self-trust—and from relational tension to more connection and clarity.

We will work to understand how ADHD shows up in your partnership and finding new ways forward—ones that are rooted in compassion, mutual support, and structure.

What can make a marriage work is surprisingly simple...

EFFECTIVE, RESERACH BASED COUPLES THERAPY

Additional areas of focus

Therapy for Military & Veteran Couples

Therapy for Couples Navigating ADHD

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