Relationship and Couples Therapy:
Cultivating Deeper Connections with the Gottman Method
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Your relationship, and your satisfaction with it, impacts all areas of your life. Relationships need nurturing to improve and sustain them. This requires intentionality, skills, and some training. Therapeutic intervention backed with the Gottman method helps couples identify and address the natural defenses that hinder effective communication and bonding.
Make your relationship number one. Spending time with someone we love makes us happy and reduces our stress. When we can build trust through prioritizing the relationship, we can achieve sustainability, loyalty, and satisfaction that goes beyond words.
Whether you’re facing a major challenge or simply feeling out of sync, I provide a structured, expert approach to help you navigate intense fighting, affairs, separations, gridlocked problems, deep hurts, parenting struggles, financial difficulties, and disconnection. These are common reasons couples come seek support.
I’ll help deepen your connection and equip you practical tools to repair conflict, communicate effectively and make decisions together.
Areas of Special Consideration
Premarital & Pre-Commitment Counseling
Parenting & Coparenting Stress
Intimacy & Sexual Concerns
Navigating Neurodiversity (e.g., ADHD in One Partner)
Grief, Loss, or Major Life Transition
Affairs
The Relationship Fix: My Approach
With a focus on evidence-based methods and a personalized, compassionate, and expertly guided approach, I can get a clear unbiased picture of the relationship to identify the core problems that need to be addressed in therapy.
The Relationship Fix model is designed to help couples foster respect, understanding, and empathy. I integrate attachment-based models and imago work to ensure the best outcomes for each couple. I prioritize communication and conflict resolution while creating an environment where both partners feel safe to express themselves.
Couples & Relationship Therapy
Couples therapy is grounded in the principles of enhancing intimacy, reducing destructive communication patterns, and fostering a profound sense of mutual understanding and appreciation within a relationship. I will guide you through the research, enhance and foster a mindset, and teach you specific tools for compromise, repair, and connection. Working with couples to non-defensively approach one another and increase empathy and deep understanding is a key step in getting unstuck.
Couples who embark on this with me are working towards:
Increasing their emotional and practical attunement to one another's worlds.
Creating a safe haven within the relationship, where partners feel heard, respected, and able to support each other without fear of criticism or judgement.
Building a solid foundation of friendship, trust, and shared dreams.
Couples Therapy may be right for you, if:
You feel disconnected, stuck, or overwhelmed from your partner.
Communication has broken down, leading to frequent arguments.
Infidelity has damaged trust, and you're unsure of the path forward.
Life transitions, like parenthood, career changes, or grief, have caused stress in your relationship.
You want to strengthen your bond and improve the emotional foundation of your relationship.
You want a relationship that's not just functional but satisfying.
Why Choose The Relationship Fix?
Non-Judgmental Space: Therapy at The Relationship Fix is a space for honest conversations, free from blame or criticism.
Tailored to You: We understand that no two relationships are the same, and our therapy is uniquely designed to meet the needs of each couple.
Compassionate Guidance: You’ll receive kind, empathetic support as you navigate the challenges of your relationship.
Cost
90 minute sessions - $330
75 minute sessions - $275
My core service, designed to help partners improve communication, resolve conflicts, and deepen emotional intimacy.
The longer session allows the time for each partner to fully process their perception of an issue, reflect understanding, and to practice application of new principles for better repairs.
The Gottman Method
The Relationship Fix is grounded in the Gottman Method, a scientifically researched approach to couples counseling that focuses on improving communication, deepening emotional connection, and resolving conflict in a constructive way. Developed by Drs. John and Julie Gottman, this method is backed by decades of research on what makes relationships thrive. By teaching couples practical tools for managing conflict, enhancing intimacy, and building shared meaning, the Gottman Method helps partners rebuild and sustain healthy, loving relationships.
Whether you're dealing with everyday stressors or deep-rooted relationship challenges, the Gottman Method provides a clear path to healing and growth. Couples who commit to this process often find renewed hope and satisfaction in their relationship, leaving therapy with the confidence to face future challenges together.
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What to Expect
The Relationship Fix intake process is aligned with Gottman Method Couples Therapy. This method is based on decades of research to help couples avoid unhelpful patterns and to cope with issues that affect negatively in the relationship.
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The assessment phase is a crucial first step in relationship therapy. During this phase I will meet with you together to gain a deep understanding of your relationship, the problems that you are facing and your goals for therapy. This phase allows us to identify the core issues accurately from the start and to develop a tailored treatment plan. By building trust and learning more about your history, dynamics, and perspectives, I can ensure the problems are properly diagnosed and thet therapy is structured to address these specific needs. The assessment phase lays the foundation for an effective, collaborative therapeutic process.
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As part of the assessment I combine both my observations with your feedback and utilize the Gottman Relationship Checkup, a standardized research backed instrument to get a clear, unbiased picture of your relationship which helps identify the core problems that need to be addressed in therapy.
This is especially important for long term relationships where patterns and issues can become deeply entrenched over time. The comprehensive assessment covers key areas like conflict management, emotional connection, and shared meaning, giving me critical insight into your relationship dynamics. It's a key piece of developing an effective tailored treatment plan.
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After completing an initial intake, I will explore each person's unique perspective, history, and concerns. This is an opportunity for partners to share thoughts and feelings and to be heard about what they need most. By getting to know each individual, I can gain valuable insight into the underlying issues, communication patterns and areas of strength and conflict within your relationship. This will help move us towards solutions and repair much quicker.
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Together we will create a plan to bring your relationship to the next level (and beyond). Sessions after this will be as a couple. In this session, we review assessment findings verbally. At this point, feedback will be given from the assessment phase and all questions will be answered.