Relationship Counseling

Relationships show us the parts of ourselves that we may or may not like. This can be an incredible avenue for healing or a continuation of the heartbreaking cycles of disconnection so familiar to our culture. Majority of us have attachment wounds that create difficulty staying in love during conflict. We not only lose connection, but our defense strategies react in harmful ways. This can look like shaming and blaming our partners for their “bad” behavior or shutting down and getting quiet to avoid a painful situation without any acknowledgment of the problem. We all have different defense strategies that block us from connecting during conflict in a way that can repair the relationship. This keeps us in painful cycles of disconnection that often lead to despair and doubt in the relationship.

If we can stay in connection with ourselves and our partners in conflict, we can discover ways of being in intimacy that can transcend the distress by creating a greater ability to love ourselves and one another in a deeper way. When we learn how to access the ability to experience connection during conflict, we gain the trust to truly transcend the difficult patterns by experiencing them as pathways to healing. 

As a relationship therapist, I offer care, psycho-education, and attachment practices that can create new patterns of connection during conflict. I support both individuals’ ability to share their authentic experiences while learning to hold the truth of the other. This can be an incredibly difficult, beautiful and life changing process. When we can allow the authentic experiences of both individuals to exist in conflict, we can know ourselves and each other in a way that supports are ability to stay connected and in love.

Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest people infinite distances exist, a marvelous living side-by-side can grow up for them, if they succeed in loving the expanse between them, which gives them the possibility of always seeing each other as a whole and before an immense sky. - Rainer Maria Rilke

50 minutes $225, 90 minutes $275

Visa/Mastercard accepted

Sliding scale options as available for those with financial need

I am unable to bill insurance at this time but can provide a superbill for clients to submit for reimbursement if their insurance takes out of network exceptions