Relationship Therapy That Helps You Understand What's Happening—and Change What Happens Next

You may know exactly why you're here.

Your marriage is in crisis.

You've discovered an affair—or your partner has discovered yours.

You keep having the same argument, even though both of you swear you're trying to fix it.

You're trying to decide whether to stay, leave, rebuild, or begin again.

Or maybe nothing dramatic has happened. You simply know something isn't working anymore.

Therapy that meets you where you are—and knows where to go from there.

I work with individuals and couples who want more than a place to talk about what's happening. Together, we'll understand what's driving the problem, identify what needs to change, and develop the skills to change what happens next.

Insight. Skills. Accountability. Trust.

Understanding matters.

Sometimes you need to understand why the same argument keeps happening. Why you become defensive before your partner has finished speaking. Why you keep choosing relationships that look different on the surface but somehow leave you feeling exactly the same way.

Sometimes making sense of what happened is an important part of figuring out what comes next.

But insight alone isn't enough.

You also need to know what to do with what you understand.

That may mean learning how to stay in a difficult conversation without attacking or shutting down. Recognizing the feedback loop that keeps pulling both of you into the same conflict. Learning to express a need without turning it into a demand. Rebuilding trust through transparency and consistent behavior. Or developing enough trust in yourself to make decisions differently.

You don't need someone to tell you what to think. You need someone who can help you think better about what's happening.

And then help you do something different with what you discover.

Your time matters. Your financial investment matters. Most importantly, the decision to invest in yourself or your relationship matters.

I take that investment seriously.

We'll have goals and direction. I'll come prepared, and we'll work toward helping you understand what's happening, identify what needs to change, and develop skills you can actually use outside my office.

Training and experience help me know where to start and where we might need to go. I draw from advanced training in the Gottman Method, infidelity recovery, PACT, and other relationship-focused approaches—but I don't believe every person, couple, or problem should be pushed through the same therapeutic model.

Experienced enough to have a plan. Flexible enough to change it.

My goal isn't to keep you in therapy indefinitely. It's to help you become increasingly capable of handling the conversations and decisions that brought you here.

There may be times later when you want a tune-up, a place to think through a new challenge, or support during another difficult season.

The goal isn't therapy for life. It's a therapeutic relationship you can return to throughout life.

Having a plan doesn't mean ignoring what's happening right in front of us.

Sometimes a disagreement in session shows us the pattern you've been trying to describe. A reaction tells us something important. Or a question takes us somewhere neither of us anticipated—but somewhere we need to go.

You should feel understood in therapy. You should also be able to trust that I will tell you when I see something getting in your way.

Accountability isn't blame. It's ownership.

And accountability doesn't mean manufacturing 50/50 responsibility where it doesn't exist. It means looking honestly at what's happening and determining what each person can—and needs to—do next.

Warmth and honesty aren't opposites here.

Ready to get to work?

Bring the problem. We'll figure out what needs to change—and start working on how to change it.

Daytime, evening, and limited Saturday appointments available.