Couples Counseling and Marriage Therapy

This, coupled with poor communication habits, can lead to negative feelings and problems for the relationship. My approach is to help you strengthen the weak areas of your relationship and further improve upon the strong areas. We will cover everything from trust and communication to romance and sex.

By learning the tools in a caring nurturing environment, we can begin to take steps to confront issues, patterns and approaches that are causing friction. And by learning new skills and adapting old habits, together, we can prepare to take your relationship to the next level.

Couples counseling is a team effort

The foundation of high quality therapy is a close client-doctor relationship. I seek to establish a close working and collaborative relationship with you and your partner. Our communications will be strictly confidential and caring. This begins during our initial discussion and continues to develop throughout the course of counseling. This is goal oriented therapy. Counseling begins with your objectives and ends once they are achieved!

I focus exclusively on saving and improving relationships. When a relationship is in trouble, the parties may not be aware of all the reasons for the conflict. Both partners continue to defend their positions, misunderstand each other and escalate the negative feelings. At this point the conflict becomes destructive and professional help is essential.

Often, couples end relationships pre-maturely, without realizing the trauma that awaits. This is especially disheartening when the relationship could have been saved. Also, couples fail to realize that patterns repeat, and that they are likely to be in the same position with a different partner.

I specialize in restoring, repairing and rebuilding relationships. My caring commitment and deep compassion for your relationship supports your ultimate success. To do this, I combine elements of proven individual and relationship therapy models, including:

• Psychoanalytic, object relations, transgenerational, pluralistic, and narrative, all of which focus on issues stemming from childhood as the basis for problems in the relationship.
• Cognitive behavioral, behavioral, integrative behavioral, emotionally focused, and ego analytical, which help with communication issues.
• Solution focused and structural therapies, which are solution-based approaches that are good when a more furture-oriented approach is needed.
• Bowen family systems, an approach during which the couples counselor becomes part of the relationship dynamic in session..
• The Gottman approach, which focuses on the couple's strengths as opposed to weaknesses.