Couples Therapy
What do you do when there’s something wrong but you can’t figure out how to fix it?
Are you feeling disconnected and emotionally distant, like roommates instead of partners? Are there conversations you know will end in a fight, so you brace yourself for an argument any time they come up… or just avoid them altogether? Do you find yourselves wanting a closer, more fulfilling relationship but simply not knowing how to get from here to there?
How Couples Therapy can Help
Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy helps you learn what is happening during those conflict patterns, leading you to better understanding of yourselves. Through collaboration, connection, and guided discovery, you can choose another path, learn to manage difficult conversations, and rediscover intimacy and trust.
Neurodiversity Affirming Couples Therapy
I feel constantly misunderstood and misinterpreted… how do we create a shared language?
ADHD, Autism, AuDHD, or other forms of neurodiversity can add additional challenges to creating and maintaining a strong relationship. Black and white thinking, difficultly completing tasks, rigid expectations, and rejection sensitive dysphoria can make it feel like you’re speaking different languages. Whether only one or both partners are neurodiverse, you may find yourselves bumping into miscommunications, different perspectives, and specific challenges that don’t always generalize to one-size-fits-all approaches.
Why Neurodiversity Affirming Couples Therapy Makes a Difference
Neurodiversity-affirming couples therapy acknowledges how Autism, ADHD, and AuDHD come into play in your relationship, your sense of self, and your day-to-day life. As a neurodiverse therapist, I am here to help you improve your relationship without losing sight of who you are.
LGBTQIA+ Affirming Couples Therapy
We want support… but we don’t want to educate or have our experiences minimized
Relationships are shaped by more than what happens between two people.
Queer couples face the same struggles with conflict, disconnection, and communication as anyone else but for many of us, there’s a lot more to manage than that. You may be carrying the impact of difficult extended family dynamics, working toward acceptance and celebration of gender identity, facing experiences of microaggressions and marginalization, or feeling the weight of workplace and/or personal relationships where coming out is either not an option or constantly recurring. Navigating parenting roles within your family and in social settings - from bonding as the non-gestational parent, to fielding intrusive questions from family, friends and strangers, to filling out permission slips designed for cis-het parents - means there’s a nearly constant reminder that we didn’t get the same blueprint for how to do this. The stressors are real, and it’s important that your experience is understood.
How does Queer Couples Therapy help?
In this space, you don’t have to explain. As a queer parent and therapist, I am here to offer support for your relationship within the context of your lived experience. I am gender-affirming, sex and kink-positive, and welcome clients practicing Ethical Non-Monogamy.
We focus on what is happening between you… without ignoring the big picture. How you communicate, how you repair, and how you stay connected when things feel hard. Through queer affirming couples therapy, you can develop a way of connecting and communicating that makes it possible to handle the tough conversations, develop a deeper understanding, and rediscover yourselves together.