Relationship therapy gives you and your partner or partners space to see each other more clearly, communicate better, and feel more attuned across the ways you connect: physically, emotionally, intellectually, and spiritually. Every relationship moves through hard stretches, and when those go unaddressed, distance and hurt can quietly build. Therapy offers a steady, non-judgmental space to understand what is happening between you, where it started, and how to move toward what your relationship actually needs.

Most conflict is not really about what it seems to be about. The fight over dishes, money, or who texted whom is usually carrying something underneath, an unmet need, an old fear, a longing to feel chosen, safe, or respected. A lot of this work is learning to hear what is actually being asked for beneath the surface argument, on both sides, so you stop having the same fight in different outfits and start reaching the real thing. We help you slow those moments down, understand the pattern the two of you fall into, and find your way back to each other when you have drifted or ruptured.

That repair matters more than never rupturing at all. No relationship avoids conflict; the strong ones are the ones that learn to come back together afterward, to turn toward each other in the small everyday moments as well as the big ones, and to rebuild trust after it has been shaken. We also pay attention to the way old wounds, often from long before this relationship, get touched in present conflict, and to how partners, with care, can become a place where some of that old hurt finally heals rather than repeats.

We work with relationships of all structures and identities. That includes married and partnered couples, queer, gay, lesbian, and trans relationships, folks who are dating, polyamorous and non-monogamous relationships, and partners navigating open or evolving agreements. We understand the particular questions each structure brings, the negotiations of non-monogamy, the work of opening or restructuring a relationship, the specific dynamics of dating. Whatever your structure, we meet it as it is, without treating any configuration as the standard. For the specific landscape of queer and trans life, we also hold a dedicated space on our LGBTQ+ affirming therapy page.

We also bring particular care to relationships shaped by racial, cultural, religious, and ethnic experience. The norms you carry from your communities shape how you love, argue, and repair, and how you understand commitment, family, gender, and money, and we understand those dynamics from both lived and professional experience. When partners come from different backgrounds, we help you navigate the places those differences meet. We hold your relationship through a multicultural and intersectional lens, alongside premarital and pre-cohabitation support when that fits where you are.

What we work on includes:

• Communication and the conflict patterns you keep getting stuck in
• Disconnection and rebuilding closeness, warmth, and friendship
• Intimacy & desire
• Trust, betrayal, and repair after rupture
• Boundaries, agreements, and opening or restructuring a relationship
• Jealousy, insecurity, and navigating real difference
• Differing values around money, family, religion, and lifestyle
• Major life changes: loss, illness, growing your family, a job shift, or a move
• The old patterns each of you brings from earlier relationships and family, and how they show up here
• Premarital and pre-cohabitation counseling