Couple & Family Therapy

It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.

~ Audre Lord

[Relationships are] a constant process of tuning in, connecting, missing and misreading cues, disconnecting, repairing, and finding deeper connection. It is a dance of meeting and parting and finding each other again. Minute to minute. Day to day.

~ Sue Johnson

I offer both preventative and crisis intervention couples work. I support partners in staying connected in the midst of crisis as well as in the midst of celebration. Couples come to me in distress about sex, money, kids, or, for instance, who does the laundry. Often they are at a ‘can’t budge’ crossroad in a life decision, such as having a baby or moving to another country.  

Sometimes, families aren’t in crisis, but need tools to hold the sweetness of adoption, empty nests, or developmental milestones like graduation. 

All too often, couples are in the business of running a household like two ships passing in the night as opposed to nurturing a safe harbor to raise a family and enjoy adult companionship.  

I assist couples in moving beyond the binary of right/wrong and good/bad. When we understand our unconscious patterns and strengthen our ability to empathize with one another, we open to connection that was deadened by life’s stressors.

I specialize in working with parents with PTSD or a trauma history which affects their optimal parenting. 

I work with parents of children with:

• Chronic medical conditions

• Attachment issues as a result of adoption, divorce, loss or death in the family

• Multicultural and mixed heritage backgrounds

I enjoy working with all family structures, whether you are married, unmarried, divorced, poly, queer, transgender, or undefined.