Couples & Family Therapy
"Our partners, our children, and our closest relationships are mirrors of our deepest wounds and our greatest potential for growth."
— Marion Woodman
Therapy for Couples
Intimate relationships have a way of exposing our most tender places—our deepest hopes, fears, and wounds. When trust is fractured or conflicts become a painful cycle, it’s common to feel hopeless, misunderstood, betrayed, resentful, or alone within the partnership.
Couples therapy offers a space to pause and look beyond the proverbial “dirty dishes in the sink”—to the patterns that bind you, the unspoken emotions that fuel your conflicts, and the unmet needs that long to be acknowledged. Our work together will focus on disentangling these patterns with curiosity rather than blame, allowing both of you to be seen, heard, and understood. We’ll explore how past experiences and relational wounds shape the way you show up in your relationship today, cultivate inner resources to help you regulate your nervous system during moments of escalation, and develop practical skills to communicate more openly and effectively.
The aim is not just to resolve surface-level conflicts but to nurture a more authentic and resilient connection—one grounded in trust, empathy and a deeper appreciation of each other’s inner worlds.
I have worked with couples on a range of issues, but my areas of interest and expertise are: interracial and cross-cultural issues; impact of trauma on relationship dynamics; rebuilding trust following betrayal or infidelity; family planning, fertility issues/pregnancy/postpartum, and adjusting to parenthood.
Therapy for Families
Family relationships can be both a source of deep comfort and profound pain. The ties that bind us can also carry unresolved pain, inherited patterns, and unspoken expectations that echo across generations.
The work of family therapy involves exploring the unique roles each person plays, the unspoken rules that shape your interactions, and the stories your family has come to believe about itself. By bringing these dynamics into the open, we can begin to unravel the tensions that leave each of you feeling misunderstood or disconnected, and experiment with new ways of being that allow for more understanding and an increased capacity for love and empathy.
I approach this process with warmth and curiosity, attentive to the nuances of cultural background, generational divides, power dynamics, and the legacies of past wounds. The goal is not to assign blame, but to help your family discover new ways of relating that foster trust, mutual understanding, and a deeper sense of belonging.
I have worked with families on a range of issues, but my areas of focus and expertise are: navigating cultural, class, education and/or language differences between children of immigrants and their immigrant parents; working with adult children and parents/siblings to mend or deepen their relationship; supporting families through the process of accepting a child who is coming out as LGBTQIA+; and helping parents and teens as they traverse the rocky adolescent years.
