Relationship Counseling

Healthy relationships aren't defined by looking like everyone else's. They're built by creating something that fits the people in them. 

Every relationship develops its own language, rhythms, and ways of protecting itself. Sometimes those patterns help you grow together. Sometimes they leave you feeling unheard, disconnected, or wondering how you ended up so far apart.

Relationship Counseling, often called Couples Therapy, is a collaborative process designed to help you better understand yourselves, each other, and the relationship you are creating together. 

Relationship therapy isn't just for couples on the verge of separation. Many people seek therapy because they want to communicate more honestly, navigate life transitions, repair trust after an injury, explore changing needs, or build a relationship that reflects who they are today rather than who they were years ago.

Therapy provides a space to understand what your relationship is trying to become, identify the patterns that keep you stuck, and help each person speak more honestly about their needs, fears, boundaries, and hopes.

Together we may explore questions such as:

• Why do we keep having the same argument?
• How do we rebuild trust after a rupture?
• Why do we feel more like roommates than partners?
• How do we navigate jealousy without shame?
• What happens when one partner wants to open the relationship and the other doesn't?
• How do we balance autonomy and closeness?

My practice welcomes people of all races, genders, and sexualities, relationship configurations.  I am LGBTQIA+ affirming, sex-positive,  and kink-friendly.  Conversations about sex, desire, or lifestyle are welcome here without judgment. 

I work with partners across many different relationship structures, including married and long-term couples, dating and engaged couples, consensually non-monogamous (CNM) relationships and people exploring whether CNM is right for them, relationship anarchy and other intentionally designed relationship configurations.