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Love is often one of the most meaningful, life-changing experiences we ever have. Yet the same relationship that once felt like home can start to feel confusing, distant, or even painful.
If you’re here searching for couples therapy near me, you’re probably longing to feel close again—but you may not know how to get there.
Unclear communication, unspoken resentment, repeated arguments, and old wounds can slowly chip away at even the strongest bond. Over time, simple misunderstandings can become ongoing battles, and the person who once felt like your safest place can start to feel like an opponent.
When day-to-day interactions begin to feel like a warzone, the trust and emotional safety that held you together can weaken. The connection that once defined your relationship may feel like it’s disappearing.
When you reach this point, it’s a powerful and loving choice to reach out for couples counseling—to work with a trained couples therapist who can guide you both back to clarity, respect, and intimacy.
During couples therapy, you will learn how both you and your partner play a role in the problems within your relationship.
With the guidance of our therapists, you will learn to communicate openly in a safe environment and begin to uncover the root of the problems you’re experiencing.
We will help you identify the pain points of your relationship and teach how to change the dynamics.
We’ll also explore how past experiences contribute to differing expectations about behavior, communication, and conflict resolution.
As you become more aware of the assumptions you carry into the relationship, you can begin to create a new set of expectations that both of you understand and support.
Our goal is for you to leave our sessions feeling empowered and able to freely express your love again — and to regain a deeper, more satisfying relationship.
Once each of you takes responsibility for your own behaviors, you will begin to heal the trust within your relationship and restore a deep sense of intimacy and love.
Our therapists draw from several evidence-based approaches to couples therapy and relationship counseling, including the Gottman Method, Imago Therapy, and Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy (EFT).
Each relationship is different, so we personalize these methods based on your personalities, history, and goals.
The Gottman Method, developed by Dr. John and Dr. Julie Gottman, is a research-backed approach that focuses on nine core pillars of a healthy relationship. In our Gottman-informed couples counseling, we’ll work with you on the following:
Building Love Maps
Love Maps help you understand your partner’s inner world—their hopes, fears, stresses, joys, and day-to-day experiences. We’ll help you deepen your awareness of each other so you feel more emotionally attuned and connected.
Sharing Fondness and Admiration
Instead of focusing only on what’s wrong, we’ll guide you to notice and express appreciation, respect, and affection. Rebuilding admiration is a powerful antidote to criticism and contempt.
Turning Toward Instead of Away
We’ll teach you how to respond to your partner’s bids for connection—those small moments when they reach out for attention, comfort, or support—so that you move closer instead of shutting down or turning away.
Cultivating a Positive Perspective
In a distressed relationship, even neutral interactions can feel negative. We’ll help you shift into a more positive lens so that problem-solving feels collaborative instead of adversarial.
Managing Conflict Effectively
Conflict is inevitable, but constant hostility is not. You’ll learn how to manage disagreements, soothe escalation, and address both solvable problems and deeper, recurring issues that keep resurfacing.
Making Life Dreams Come True
We’ll support you in understanding each other’s deeper dreams and values—about family, career, intimacy, and meaning—so you can become allies in helping those dreams take shape.
Creating Shared Meaning
Healthy relationships have a sense of “we.” We’ll help you create shared rituals, values, and meaning so you feel like you’re truly building a life together, not just living side-by-side.
Rebuilding and Deepening Trust
Trust means knowing your partner has your back, honors your boundaries, and shows up for you. We’ll guide you in repairing broken trust and creating consistent behaviors that restore safety.
Nurturing Commitment
Commitment is more than staying; it’s choosing each other again and again. We’ll help you strengthen your sense of commitment so your relationship feels secure, long-lasting, and deeply fulfilling.
Imago Relationship Therapy helps you understand how your childhood experiences and early attachment patterns influence the way you show up in your adult relationships.
In Imago-informed couples counseling, we will:
By recognizing these patterns, you can respond to each other with more compassion instead of reflexive blame. This awareness allows you to heal old emotional injuries while also creating new, healthier ways of relating in the present.
Imago Therapy is especially helpful for couples who feel stuck in the same arguments, who feel misunderstood, or who want to deepen emotional intimacy, not just stop fighting.
Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy (EFT) focuses on the emotional bonds that hold relationships together. Instead of just addressing surface-level conflict, EFT helps you understand and transform the emotional patterns underneath.
In emotionally focused couples therapy, we will:
EFT aims to create a secure emotional bond between you and your partner, where both of you feel safe, valued, and emotionally reachable. As these patterns shift, interactions naturally become more supportive and less reactive.
Research has consistently shown EFT to be highly effective for many types of couples across cultures, backgrounds, and locations. It has also been found effective for couples navigating trauma, anxiety, depression, and chronic illness.
