Couples Psychotherapy

Specialties

  • Trauma, Betrayal, and Loss in Relationships: I work with couples where one or both partners are impacted by trauma, betrayal, or significant loss, helping you reconnect and rebuild trust.

Modalities

  • Integrative Behavioral Couples Therapy (IBCT): Begins with a four session assessment process exploring differences, emotional sensitivities, external circumstances, and problematic patterns. This helps establish the “problem as the problem” instead of partners blaming each other. Subsequent sessions blend acceptance and change strategies to improve empathic understanding, address core relationship challenges and foster intimacy.

  • Conjoint Behavioral Couple Therapy (CBCT): This is an evidence-based PTSD treatment that is done as a couple instead of individually. It is designed for couples where one or more individuals are coping with PTSD. The focus is on on trauma processing as a couple, while improving communication, safety, and shared healing.

  • Emotion Focused Therapy (EFT) for Couples: This evidence-based approach focuses on strengthening emotional bonds and resolving relationship distress, with focus on identifying deeper needs of attachment and autonomy in order to shift destructive, repetitive conflict cycles into secure, empathic connections where both individuals needs matter.

  • Skills-Based Interventions: I am trained in several skills-based couples interventions, including Prevention and Relationship Enhancement Program (PREP), The Gottman Method, couples DBT, Emotion-Focused Skills Training (EFST), Nonviolent Communication (NVC) and a family intervention designed for Navy SEALS and their families. All of these interventions involve practical tools for improving communication, resolving conflicts, and strengthening partnerships.

Fees

  • All Services (per hour): $250

Flexible Treatment Options

  • Weekly or Bi-Monthly Therapy: Ongoing support for couples at any stage.

  • Massed Treatment: Intensive, short-term therapy options for couples seeking rapid progress or facing acute challenges.

Unique Offerings

  • Intensives in the Wild: Ask about curated adventure-based therapy experiences (e.g., bikepacking, surfing) for couples, with a daily rate plus travel and lodging.