Relationship & Couples Therapy

RELATIONSHIP THERAPY

Do you have a concern to address with someone you care about? Life will present a myriad of challenges and conflicts. Stress, grief, times of transition, coping with illness and growth can be demanding. Therapy can help strengthen your connection, gain perspective, build skills and promote effective communication.

COUPLES THERAPY

Couple therapy can help you improve your relationship satisfaction.  Every couple faces conflicts and challenges. Sometimes communication becomes difficult, small issues escalate into big fights, distance or loneliness develops. Avoidance of conflict may become a way to cope. Emotionally Focused Therapy for Couples (EFT-C) is a research validated method of helping couples resolve relationship conflicts, improve emotional communication, and increase intimacy.

Together, we can explore how your relationship works at an emotional level.  We can look at how reactive emotions and negative cycles interfere with understanding and productive communication.  With encouragement and skill, you can express needs, cultivate understanding, heal old hurts and deepen your connection. You can create new, positive ways of engaging that will strengthen your emotional bond, build resilience when coping with conflicts, and increase satisfaction.

EFT-C can help couples who are:

• Trapped in escalating arguments

• Frustrated by the way they communicate

• Becoming more resentful and angry

• Feeling emotionally disconnected

• Feeling distant after the birth of a child

• Dealing with midlife changes

• Rebuilding their relationship after an affair

• Coping with illness or depression