areas of focus
Becoming Parents
Becoming parents can be one of the most meaningful—and most disruptive—transitions a couple goes through. Sleep loss, shifting roles, mental load, family boundaries, and changes in intimacy can strain even strong relationships. Couples therapy offers a steady place to strengthen the partnership while everything else is changing.
Using Gottman Method interventions, sessions focus on protecting friendship, improving communication under stress, and building reliable repair after conflict—so both partners feel seen, supported, and on the same team as you move into this new season.
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.
Repairing Trust After a Betrayal
After a betrayal, couples often feel caught between intense pain and a desire to understand what happened and decide what comes next. Whether the rupture involves an affair, secrecy, broken agreements, or another breach of trust, Gottman-informed betrayal recovery offers a structured, compassionate path to rebuild safety, stabilize the relationship, and begin repairing connection.
Using the Atone, Attune, Attach process, sessions support accountability and transparency, make room for the injured partner’s questions and healing, strengthen emotional attunement and repair after conflict, and gradually rebuild closeness and secure attachment. The work is paced and tailored so progress feels grounded, sustainable, and aligned with what both partners need to move forward.
Navigating ADHD
ADHD can bring real strengths to a relationship—creativity, spontaneity, and deep focus—while also creating stress around follow-through, emotional reactivity, missed bids for connection, or feeling misunderstood. Couples therapy provides a structured, compassionate space to name these patterns without blame and build practical systems that support daily life and shared goals.
Sessions focus on strengthening communication, reducing shame, and creating routines and repair strategies.
Addiction Recovery
Recovery impacts both partners—and many couples want support rebuilding trust, safety, and connection alongside sobriety. Gottman-informed couples therapy for recovery offers a structured, compassionate space to strengthen communication, reduce shame and reactivity, and create clear agreements that support healing.
With training in the Gottman Method for addiction recovery, sessions focus on repairing after conflict, rebuilding friendship and emotional attunement, and developing practical tools for boundaries, accountability, and relapse-prevention conversations—so the relationship can become a stable support for long-term change.