Adults, Couples & Family Therapy
Couples & Partners
The desire to move from gridlock and breakdown to repair is often the reason couples come to therapy. Something that once felt effortless has become confusing, tense, painful. You might feel locked in the same argument that feels unbearably repetitive, you might feel like your relationship has deteriorated to ‘roommates’ or you feel buried under the weight of betrayals that have yet to heal.
We begin with starting to understand what drives the conflict underneath the content of the day to day bitter words. We look at what each partner is protecting, fearing and reaching for- even when those needs are expressed in blame, anger and silence. Both partners need space for their experience, while we build tools for better communication, repair, resilience and reconnection.
Some come in crisis and others come in a desperate attempt to refind the deep connection they once had. Therapy is a process of reviving what was once there or courageously finding a different path.
Young Adults & Adults
Adulthood is often described as the time we think we are supposed to “have it all together".” But many people arrive in therapy feeling like something in their life just isn’t working the way they had hoped- despite their accomplishments., relationships, or outward stability. You might be feeling anxious, stressed, detached, stuck, or feelings like things don’t make sense or haunted by feelings that feel disconnected from what is happening around you in the present.
We explore not only what is going on- but why now. Together we make space for the parts of you that have been buried, denied, or distorted in the name of survival. Patterns sometimes protect you from feared patterns in previous relationships.
This work takes patience, time, care and someone to witness the places you feel most uncertain. In our process, our goal is for you to feel more and more yourself- while also being in peace, with more and more distance from fear, sadness and hopelessness.
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“The challenge of intimacy is to remain related even while recognizing the other as separate and different. It is in surviving the other’s difference that we become whole.””
Families of All Kinds
Families are emotional ecosystems. When one member is struggling, it often signals something in the larger system-not just an individual issue. Family therapy may be sought due to marital conflict affecting the whole, a certain child’s behavior, a recent rupture or crisis or an ongoing sense of frustration, choas or deteriorating bonds.
Family therapy provides a deeper understanding of how the system itself is working, and what needs to shift for everyone to feel more safe and connected.
Using a unique blend of IFS (Internal Family Systems), Psychodynamic & analytic theory, and Family Systems original theory, we look at unspoken rules that inform your family’s life & patterns. The family is a living structure that sometimes gets stuck, and needs an objective party to help challenge non-functioning pattterns and find a new way forward.
