Relationship Therapy

I offer relationship therapy for relationships between adults including romantic and/or sexual relationships, platonic relationships such as friendships or family of origin or chosen family relationships, and queerplatonic relationships. These sessions may have two or more people present.

In our relationship therapy, I will support you in exploring attachment and interaction patterns where you may be feeling activation, stuckness, or discord. We can delve more deeply into what is occurring for each of you and collectively, and this witnessing can pave the way for further change.

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Relationship therapy can also support all participants in:

  • feeling closer with each other

  • understanding each other better

  • clarifying shared goals and desires

  • making decisions or enacting changes in your relationship or in your lives

  • being better able to receive and share communication and finding ways of communicating that work well

  • working through the impact of and establishing repair around hurt, harm, and betrayal

  • agreeing to boundaries and limits

My Approach and Process

When working with relationships, I draw primarily from emotionally focused therapy (EFT), an approach that can create more closeness and shift relationship patterns that aren’t working. Using an attachment-centered lens and somatic (body-based), image-based, and thought-based questions, I will invite presence with your experiences in the relationship and more connection and vulnerability in sharing with one another. I have completed an LGBT+ focused externship training and an LGBT+ focused core skills training in EFT.

I may also use internal family systems (IFS) and its relationship therapy offshoot, intimacy from the inside out (IFIO), in our sessions. This can provide more depth and complexity to the ways in which we can witness and approach what is alive for you around your relationship. I have completed Level 3 training in IFS with the IFS Institute.

You’re welcome to contact me to schedule a 15–20 minute video or phone consultation call in which, ideally, everyone planning to be involved in relationship therapy can participate. If preferred, we can also discuss fit, scheduling, and fees over email. Following this, we will meet together for a relationship intake session. I will then ask to meet with each person engaging in relationship therapy individually for a deeper exploration of your attachment style and history and any other background that feels important or relevant to discuss. We will generally meet collectively following these individual sessions, however I will be glad to meet individually in the context of our relationship work if there are times when this better supports your needs.

My full fee for relationship therapy is $230. I offer sliding scale spots; the exact amount that I can offer varies. If paying $230 is not possible for you at this time, I welcome you to ask me if I can provide what you are needing. Please note that existing clients with changes in circumstances are prioritized for sliding scale spots.