Is Couples Therapy Right for You?
Every relationship hits walls — moments where the same argument keeps cycling, where you feel more like strangers than partners, where something that once felt easy now feels impossibly hard.
You might be in the right place if you:
Feel frustrated, unheard, or emotionally disconnected from your partner
Keep having the same fights without resolution
Are navigating a breach of trust or a major life transition together
Sense that old wounds — yours or your partner's — are showing up in the relationship
Want to feel genuinely close again but aren't sure how to get there
What's actually happening beneath the conflict
Most relationship struggles aren't really about the dishes, the finances, or who said what. They're about older patterns — the ways each person learned to love, to protect themselves, and to need — quietly colliding in the present. That collision is actually an invitation: to understand each other more deeply, and to heal what's been showing up between you.
My approach is interactive, direct, and warm. We'll work on communication and conflict — but we'll also go deeper, exploring how each person's history is shaping the relationship, so that real intimacy becomes possible again.
New to couples therapy? I recommend watching Couples Therapy with Dr. Orna Guralnik on Showtime. It offers an accurate glimpse into what our work together will be like.
Couples therapy with me is active and relational — meaning I'm not just sitting back and listening. I'm in it with you, noticing what's happening between you in real time, stepping in when patterns emerge, and helping you have conversations you haven't been able to have on your own.
What we'll explore together:
Each partner's history — how your individual backgrounds, early experiences, and family dynamics are quietly shaping how you show up with each other
The patterns beneath the conflict — why certain moments trigger outsized reactions, and what those reactions are really about
Communication in real time — practicing new ways of speaking and listening directly in session, where I can see what's happening and help you course correct in the moment
The space between you — rebuilding understanding, empathy, and emotional safety so that genuine intimacy becomes possible again
This approach draws on psychodynamic principles — the understanding that what happens between two people is deeply shaped by what happened before they ever met. When both partners can see those influences clearly, the relationship stops being a battleground and starts becoming a place of real growth.