Relationship therapy helps couples, throuples, and polycules improve communication, intimacy, and trust. Our relationship therapists specialize in providing integrative, holistic, and empowering therapy to help you build deeper and more fulfilling connections. All clinicians provide therapy both in-person and online using telehealth. Below are some of the common issues that our relationship therapists specialize in.
Improving communication
Many of us lack the tools, insights, or practice to communicate effectively in the heat of conflict. Here you can learn to have constructive disagreements with partners in a safe, supportive environment. A trained, evidence-based therapist calibrates the room for complicating factors like neurodivergence, emotional dysregulation, disassociation, or codependency, all while helping you foster a clearer understanding of your relationship dynamics.
Finding a spark of intimacy
Intimacy comes in many forms, not just sexual. It includes emotional, physical, and experiential connections, such as sharing feelings or discovering adventures together. You may be feeling a disconnect with a partner around the type of intimacy you want, when you want it, and how to get that need met. Therapy can help you and your partner(s) explore these aspects of intimacy and ensure that each person's needs are acknowledged and addressed.
(Re)building trust
Trust issues arise unexpectedly from a variety of sources including infidelity, dishonesty, and financial struggles. These breaches can trigger early attachment wounds that result in fight, flight, freeze, or fawn responses. Therapy helps you practice co-creating and recognizing what it’s like to have space internally and externally for radical honesty. An impartial therapist holds partners accountable and ensures that the necessary steps are taken to rebuild a solid foundation of trust.
Enhancing sexual health and satisfaction
Sexual health and satisfaction can be important to relationships, but they can also be sources of tension and misunderstanding. Issues such as mismatched libidos, sexual dysfunction, and differing sexual interests or boundaries can create friction between partners. Therapy offers a safe space for you to openly discuss these concerns, explore each other’s desires and boundaries, and develop a shared understanding. With professional guidance, you can enhance sexual authenticity while ensuring that all partners feel satisfied and fulfilled.
Navigating tricky transitions
Life is full of exciting, scary, and challenging transitions, such as dealing with marital planning, career changes, moves, investments, extended family, illness, or changes to the relationship structure. Navigating these as a team requires careful planning and communication. Therapy offers a structured approach to discussing these transitions, helping you check in with each other effectively, and plan for the future together with mutual respect and clarity.
Parenting and family planning
Navigating the complexities of co-parenting can put significant strain on a relationship. Differences in parenting styles, discipline approaches, and communication about child-rearing can lead to conflicts even in the planning stages. Therapy provides you with a space to discuss and align on strategies, manage the stress and emotional challenges that come with raising children, and ultimately foster a healthy, supportive environment for both parents and children.
Our modalities
We tailor sessions to the relationship and pull from modalities such as Intimacy From the Inside Out (Internal Family Systems for Couples), Emotion-Focused Therapy, Attachment Theory, and Differentiation Theory.