Recurring conflict
Same fight, different weeks. The pattern is the problem, not the topic.
For two
Couples counseling.
Burnout doesn't only happen to a person. It happens to the people closest to them. Couples work makes room for both of you in the recovery, and for the relationship itself, which has often been carrying the overflow.
- 50–75 min sessions
- Gottman + EFT trained
- LGBTQ+ affirmative
- Weekly or biweekly
What it's for.
Couples counseling at our practice is open to any committed dyad — married, partnered, dating, navigating change, on a third try. We work with people of every gender and orientation, and we are LGBTQ+ affirmative across all of our couples work, without exception or carve-out.
Most couples come in for one of three reasons: a season of recurring conflict that won't resolve, a major life transition (a baby, a move, a career, a loss), or a slow drift they're trying to interrupt before it becomes something else.
Many come because one partner is burned out and the other is exhausted from carrying the slack — and neither of them quite has the language for what that's costing them as a couple.
The methods
What we use.
The two methods with the strongest evidence for couples work are the Gottman Method — built on decades of laboratory research on what differentiates relationships that last — and Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), which works directly with the attachment patterns underneath the conflict.
Most of our couples clinicians are trained in both, and integrate them in service of what your relationship actually needs.
In the room
What a session looks like.
The first session is a fit conversation with both of you in the room. We ask about how you met, what's working, what isn't, and what you'd want to be different a year from now. From there we usually do a couple of individual sessions before continuing as a couple.
Sessions are active. We slow conversations down, name what's underneath them, and teach you to do that for yourselves.
You don't have to be in crisis to come in. Many couples come in to keep small things small.— On the right time
Common reasons couples reach out
What couples work on with us.
Burnout fallout
One partner running on empty, the other depleted from picking up the slack.
Major transitions
A new baby, a move, a job change, a loss — anything that asks you to redraw the map.
Sex & intimacy
Shifts that come with parenthood, illness, stress, or simply time together.
Communication that's hardened
Patterns that have set into something you both want to soften.
Slow drift
The feeling that you've quietly become roommates — and want to interrupt that before it sets.
If only one of you is ready, that's still a place to start. Many couples begin with one partner in individual work first.
First step
Schedule a fit conversation.
A 60-minute first session with both of you in the room is about whether the format is right for your relationship, not committing to anything. We figure that out together.