People seek couples therapy for myriad reasons.

Couples can benefit from couples therapy when they are encountering issues such as, but not limited to, preparing for marriage (premarital counseling), communication, financial disagreements, recurrence of the similar conflictual themes, preparing for retirement (pre-retirement couples counseling), infidelity, sexual misalignment, differences in parenting, extended family issues, divorce.

Every couple’s story is special and unique. I work with married couples, partnered couples, engaged couples, same-sex couples, heterosexual couples, couples from different cultural backgrounds, and couples contemplating or advancing through divorce proceedings.

Often times people feel that going to couples therapy means they are failing in their relationship. This is not the case. I firmly believe that couples therapy can make almost every relationship better. We, as individuals, come from different family backgrounds and experiences; therefore, we are not going to see eye to eye on everything with our partner.

Couples therapy can help couples meet somewhere in the middle on a range of topics, gain a better understanding of each other, and create more harmony in the relationship.

Couples therapy can also be efficacious during different life stages that either or both partners are going through or stages that a family member may be encountering (i.e. new baby, young adult child leaving home for the first time, retirement).

Retirement can be an exciting time but also a time that involves a lot of changes – often affecting the couple’s dynamics. Retirement, thus, can cause a myriad of challenges for couples. Pre-retirement counseling allows couples to adequately prepare and address concerns and dynamic shifts that surface during retirement.

I utilize a variety of couples therapy modalities. I have training in Gottman Levels 1 and 2; I have also completed the externship training in Emotionally Focused Therapy and continue to train in both of these paradigms.