Couples Therapy | Healing Intimacy with Compassion

When your relationship feels stuck, disconnected, or overwhelmed by unspoken challenges, it’s natural to want guidance from someone who truly understands the complexities of partnership. As a warm, direct, and highly experienced therapist, I specialize in helping couples build deeper connection, navigate differences, and rediscover intimacy.

What I Offer

I provide a supportive yet structured space where you and your partner can safely explore your concerns and work toward shared goals. My approach is tailored to couples who are ready to invest in their care, committed to the process, and open to doing the individual work necessary to strengthen their partnership.

Whether you’re looking to repair communication, rebuild trust, or reimagine what intimacy can look like, I bring both the expertise and the compassion to help you succeed.

Couples Therapy Tailored for Connection and Growth

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If you desire a more connective and enhanced sex life?
Are you feeling significantly disconnected from your partner?
Do you all 'talk a lot' but still miss what the other is saying? Or do you rarely feel understood?
Are you currently recognizing there are sexual desires that you'd like to explore, and are nervous to do so?

In support of you getting your connection & intimacy needs met, I have experience and expertise treating...

Ineffective and provocative communication
Infidelity Repair
Poor Boundaries (respecting others or establishing)
Consistent fighting (also known as 'high-conflict couples)
Partnering with an HSP or Empath
Difficulty exploring and creating agreements around opening relationships, polyamory, ENM, and CNM
Concerns where your identity as LGBTQIA+ is the primary concern
Trouble understanding or concretizing values and needs within relationships and life
Desire for Relationship Enhancement
Unsure if we need to Divorce or Stay Together (Discernment Counseling)
Uncertainty of what to do in Complex Relationships (e.g.: mental illness, substance abuse, estrangement, narcissism, troublesome family and/or work dynamics)
Pre-Marital Counseling (Prepare/Enrich or Gottman Method)
*New* - New relationship counseling - for those wanting to deepen the relationship but realize the tools you've inherited/were taught are not sufficient today
AND MORE!

The need for safe(r) communication around sex and intimacy
Poor body image and sexuality
Reconnecting after significant body changes (for Bariatric/Medical weight loss individuals)
Desire Discrepancy (one partner wants more/less)
Concerns with libido
PE/ED and changes in sexuality after medical or significant life changes
Articulating sexual needs and the parameters around them
Exploring sexual values and skills after leaving Purity Culture
Enhancing sexual skills / exploring more opportunities for sexual pleasure
The Integration of Spirituality and Sexuality
Difficulty exploring gender, desire, and sexuality
Exploring and Creating agreements around opening relationships, polyamory, ENM, and CNM
OCSB (out of control sexual behavior) - some people will identify with the term 'sex addiction
Hesitation around exploring sexual identities including kink, D/s, and other forms of 'alternative' forms of relationships or scenes
AND MORE!

**These services are offered to individuals, couples, single, partnered, or married individuals. I can navigate most issues (as it becomes a matter of personal responsibility and awareness) and feel comfortable either offering couples sessions or referring out if this is not a dynamic that can be resolved if only one person is present.

Relationship Blocks

Intimacy Blocks

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Additional Options for Couples Therapy

Adjusting to the 'Bumps' for those who are Newly Dating!
Prepare/Enrich & Pre-Marital Counseling
Tending to High Conflict in your Relationships
'Stay or Leave" - Discernment Counseling

Specializations

I understand that every relationship is unique, and some dynamics require a deeper level of care and insight. I specialize in working with:

Interfaith Couples: Navigating the beautiful and challenging intersection of different faiths, values, or spiritual practices, I help couples find harmony and mutual respect while honoring their unique identities.

African American Couples: I offer a culturally responsive and affirming space to address the distinct challenges and joys faced by Black couples, including intimacy, communication, and shared aspirations.

Interracial Couples: Blending two worlds can bring deep richness—and also unique stressors. I help interracial couples navigate cultural dynamics, family systems, and social pressures to strengthen their bond.

Long-Term Partners: For couples who have been together for years, I help rekindle the connection, work through longstanding issues, and deepen emotional and physical intimacy.

My Approach

I believe relationships thrive when both partners are willing to show up for themselves and each other. With a trauma-informed and attachment-focused lens, I integrate research-backed approaches, tailored to meet your unique needs:

Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT): Strengthening emotional connection and reducing conflict.
Gottman Method: Practical tools to improve communication, manage conflict, and build trust.
Prepare/Enrich: A structured framework for premarital and relationship enrichment, helping couples strengthen their foundation, navigate differences, and build resilience.
The Developmental Model for High-Conflict Couples: A proven approach for couples facing ongoing tension, helping them de-escalate conflict, break unhealthy patterns, and foster growth as individuals and partners.
Mindfulness and Somatic Techniques: Practical strategies to regulate emotions and reconnect with your partner through the mind-body connection.
Discernment Counseling: For couples considering separation, offering clarity and pathways forward, whether toward repair or an amicable transition.

Who I Work Best With

Couples who thrive in my care are those who:

Are invested in improving their relationship.
Value direct yet compassionate feedback.
Understand that real change requires commitment to the process and individual self-work.
Want to co-create solutions that align with their shared values.

I'm new to sex and couples therapy...what does this type of therapy look like?

Sessions are typically of 55-minutes - the possibility of 75 to 90-minute sessions are available.

I participate with a healthy degree of active listening while also acting as an intermediary, when beneficial, in order to interrupt dysfunctional patterns and use these as teachable moments to build skills, process present emotions, and to gain clarity on how to tend to unmet needs.

1. First, I make the expectations of therapy clear both with the pre-intake paperwork and verbally at your first appointment or the Getting to Know You session, if you've booked that service.

2. I listen to your story in order to assess the emotional injuries and how they present as obstacles.

3. We will identify what are the most pressing and accessible issues that are creating distress.

5. Depending on your capacity, we will identify the path forward to support you in getting to your desired outcomes.

6. With the work done both in and out of our sessions, you will start making progress towards the life you desire.

Couples & Sex Therapy

"Where I place the responsibility of my experience is the most powerful opening to transformation."

-Dan Tocchini

If I'm honest, I have a gift for inviting people to see more fully into their blind spots, hear more of what is not being said,
and feel in ways that foster love over self-protection.

The work I do with individuals and couples is intentional and requires us to be honest (with each other - but first, with ourselves)
in order to create the life, relationship, and sense of security you've been craving!