What is couples therapy?

Couples therapy isn't just for relationships in crisis — it's for any two people who want to understand each other more deeply, communicate with less pain, and build something more intentional together. We work with couples at every stage: newly together and wanting to start well, long-term partners who've grown distant, and those navigating specific ruptures like infidelity, grief, or parenting conflict.

Sessions are 80 minutes — longer than standard individual therapy — because real relational work needs room to breathe.

"The goal in marriage is not to think alike, but to think together." — Robert C. Dodds

Our approach

• The Gottman Method — Research-backed interventions targeting criticism, contempt, and defensiveness — the patterns that predict relationship breakdown.

• Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) — Identify and shift the emotional cycles that keep you both stuck, and rebuild secure attachment.

• Narrative therapy — Rewrite the story you've built about your relationship to create space for new possibilities.

• Individual-within-couple work — Sometimes one partner benefits from parallel individual sessions, carefully coordinated so both tracks support each other.

We commonly work with couples navigating

• Communication breakdown — the same argument on loop, no resolution

• Emotional distance, disconnection, or "roommate syndrome"

• Infidelity and rebuilding trust after betrayal

• Parenting disagreements and the stress of raising children

• Sexual intimacy concerns

• Cultural or values differences that have become friction points

• Deciding whether to stay together or separate — with clarity and care

Deciding whether to stay together or separate — with clarity and care

"We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person." — W. Somerset Maugham