Couples Therapy

You’re invested.

You love them and are committed to making this relationship work, but lately, it’s been like trudging through mud.

You don’t really feel that same “spark” in your connection that you felt when you first got together. Now there are so many responsibilities- the mortgage, the kids, and the fragments of time left for yourself and your partner.

You crave emotional connection, but it sometimes feels like there’s a wall between the two of you and you can’t seem to settle in.

Your partner is frustrated and you are overwhelmed and you find yourself in familiar patterns of bickering. It’s like you take a step towards them and they shut down, so you shut down any romantic feelings and boil in frustration.

You’ve tried on your own to make it work, but there’s so much distance between the two of you and with the million other things on your plate, it’s hard to figure out where to start….

Relationships are hard.

Roadblocks in relationships happen. Couples choose to start therapy for an assortment of reasons.

Many couples start therapy at a point where they believe their relationship is beyond saving. Communication has fallen apart, trust does not exist, and intimacy is a distant memory. If you both are willing to put in some hard work, couples therapy can give your relationship a chance to mend.

Couples Therapy in Oakland can bring healing into your relationship.

How does Couples Therapy in Oakland work?

We will use an approach called emotionally focused therapy for couples and integrate trauma-informed methods grounded in mind-body awareness to help you both learn how to meet the emotional needs to strengthen your connection (and reignite intimacy!) with each other.

The problem isn't you or your partner; it's a cycle your relationship is stuck in.

We will work together to deepen emotional intimacy in order to create strength in your connection with each other. When you both can feel secure and at ease in your relationship, you will find that emotional and sexual intimacy naturally flows... We will focus on learning about what happens in the back and forth in your day-to-day by learning about the rhythm of your connection.

Couples Therapy will help you do the following things:

• Learn how to communicate with your partner from a place of compassion and understanding

• Discover and mend the root causes of your conflicts

• Resolve difficult decisions together around important life transitions

• Increase emotional intimacy and strengthen feelings of connectedness with one another

  
  

I welcome all races, sexual orientations, gender expressions, physical abilities, cultures and spiritual orientations in my practice.

If you are ready to reignite intimacy in your connection, contact me to start the process toward a better relationship. Click below to schedule your free 15-minute phone consultation for Couples Therapy in Oakland, CA.

My specialties include anxiety therapy, harm reduction for addictive behaviors, complex trauma & PTSD, inner child work, narcissistic abuse, religious trauma, childhood loss, and childhood abuse. Let’s get started creating a happier you by building a strong connection in your relationship