Couples Therapy

Therapy can be helpful with navigating life’s big shifts, such as changing careers, moving to a new city, becoming parents, becoming homeowners, and all the complications that come with aging.

There are unique challenges inherent to the time of life in which folks are navigating raising young children, as well as shifts with parents/grandparents, which can put strain on couples.

Examples can include parents’ cognitive decline, generational differences, and managing grandparents’ expectations

How to navigate gendered expectations around household responsibilities and the unacknowledged “mental load.”

Conflict resolution surrounding such issues as “score keeping,” “one-upping,” and resentment

In specializing with male clients I have a unique window into the impact of infertility on men that often is unacknowledged/under-appreciated.

Important factors in this area include the impact on one’s sex life, identity-related conflicts, and grief.

Coping skills for recurring, seemingly intractable disagreements that are an existential threat to relationships.

Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) is a helpful framework to apply for couples where tensions are consistently high, and perhaps even when other modes of couples therapy have proven ineffective

We’ll focus intently on the role validation plays in communication, and pay equal attention to what is being said as how messages are delivered.

A core component of this area of therapy involves learning to give and receive feedback in such a way that strengthens resolve toward shared goals - rather than being received as a character-based attack or take-down.