Therapy Services
Every relationship and every person reaches points where the way you’ve been handling things simply isn’t working anymore. Whether you’re trying to strengthen your relationship, deciding whether you want to stay in it, or working through something on your own, therapy can help you better understand what’s happening and determine what comes next.
Couples Therapy
You both want things to be better. You just haven’t been able to get there on your own.
Maybe you keep having the same arguments without ever resolving them. One of you may pursue while the other withdraws, communication has become tense or nonexistent, or years of hurt and resentment have created distance between you. Perhaps trust has been damaged, intimacy has changed, or you simply don’t feel as connected as you once did.
Couples therapy provides a structured place to understand the patterns keeping you stuck and begin doing something different.
My work with couples is informed by advanced training in the Gottman Method and more than 20 years of experience working with relationships. Depending on your needs, our work may focus on communication, conflict, rebuilding trust, strengthening friendship and intimacy, or changing longstanding relationship patterns.
The goal isn’t a relationship without disagreement. It’s a relationship in which you understand each other better, navigate difficulties more effectively, and feel more connected.
Ready to work on your relationship? Contact me to get started.
Discernment Counseling
What if you’re not sure you want to work on the relationship?
Traditional couples therapy assumes that both people are willing to try to improve the relationship. Sometimes that simply isn’t where a couple is.
Discernment Counseling is designed specifically for couples when one person is leaning toward ending the relationship while the other hopes to repair it.
Rather than immediately trying to fix the marriage or relationship, we slow the process down. The goal is to gain greater clarity and confidence about which direction to take:
- Keep things as they are for now
- Move toward separation or divorce
- Commit to a focused period of couples therapy with both partners fully participating
Discernment Counseling is a short-term process of up to five sessions and includes time together as well as individual conversations with each partner.
The goal is not to convince either person to stay or leave. It is to help both of you better understand what happened to the relationship, your individual contributions to the problems, and what your next step should be.
If you’re unsure whether couples therapy is the right next step, contact me to learn more about Discernment Counseling.
Individual Therapy
Sometimes the change you’re looking for starts with you.
You may be navigating a difficult relationship, feeling emotionally exhausted, struggling with boundaries, facing a major transition, or noticing patterns that continue to show up in different areas of your life.
I work with adults who want to better understand themselves and make meaningful changes in their lives and relationships. Many of my clients are capable, high-functioning people who are accustomed to managing a lot but have reached a point where something no longer feels sustainable or fulfilling.
My approach is strengths-based, solution-focused, person-centered, and informed by family systems. Together, we can explore how past experiences and relationships may be influencing your life today while also identifying practical changes that can help you move forward.
Therapy doesn’t have to be only about what’s wrong. It can also be about understanding yourself more clearly, building on what is already working, and becoming more intentional about how you want to live.
If you’re ready for something to be different, reach out to see if we might be a good fit.
Getting Started
I provide online therapy for adults and couples in Arizona and Colorado.
If you’re not sure which service is right for your situation, that’s okay. Reach out and tell me a little about what’s going on, and we can determine the best place to start.
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