Couples Counseling

First I'll help identify the root of your issues, then help you learn the skills to overcome them. This includes learning and practicing open and loving communication skills and developing empathy for your partner’s perspectives. One technique I use to accomplish this is to identify your core feelings and coping techniques within arguments and then help you break this pain cycle by replacing them with unifying behavior. Another is exercises/worksheets you can work on in-between sessions.

I enjoy working with couples and helping them overcome relationship challenges related to communication issues, sex/intimacy issues, lack of understanding, kink, LGBTQ, and infidelity. I work with Imago therapy to increase couples communication and am passionate about teaching tantra. Tantra helps couples learn to somatically tune into each others energetic vibration and take their relationship to new levels of pleasure and compassion.

MYTH: All we need is better communication. TRUTH: Communication is important, but learning how to identify and attend to the deep wounds that drive conflict is the key to breaking toxic cycles and building healthy bonds. OUR WORK TOGETHER: You and your partner will enter a safe space where you will both learn powerful tools for diffusing destructive patterns and increasing vulnerability, empathy, and accountability—the requisites for strong, lasting, deeply satisfying partnership.

Couples Counseling is a wonderful way to bring increased intimacy and improved communication to any relationship. Expressing boundaries, healing from past issues and moving forward to a future with shared goals are all part of the journey. I believe that every couple can improve their overall relationship satisfaction through counseling.

I provide couples counseling to dating, engaged, and married couples.

I use an eclectic mix of Gottman Method and Relational Life Therapy with couples, partnerships and polycules.

Couples counseling can help couples in all types of intimate relationships — regardless of sexual orientation or marriage status. It focuses on helping a couple work through challenges, understand their relationship better, develop healthier ways of relating to one another and get unstuck from painful patterns. Premarital counseling can help couples achieve a deeper understanding of each other and iron out differences before marriage.

Is your relationship not what you thought it'd be? Do you want to reconnect with your spouse or partner? You don't have to be in the midst of a crisis to seek out help. Couples therapy helps with addressing old resentments, improving communication, rebuild trust. Are you ready for your relationship 2.0? Contact me for a 15-minute phone consultation.

Heather has worked with many couples as they navigate their relationship struggles.

In addition to the Gottman method, I also incorporate elements of emotionally focused therapy as well as sampling from other experts in the field in order to create the most enhanced experience for the couple.

As a couples therapist, I blend evidence-based methods with emotional insight to help partners transform challenges into growth opportunities. Using the Gottman Method and Emotionally Focused Therapy, I create a safe space for exploring difficult topics and building deeper connections. Together, we'll develop practical strategies to strengthen your relationship while honoring both partners' aspirations.

I believe in a collaborative approach to relationships. I lean toward the Gottman approach in couples work.

I work with couples and relationship configurations of all kinds to build communication and conflict resolution skills, as well as develop a deeper and more meaningful connection between partners.

You can rebuild trust in yourself and your relationship. Learning and practicing alternate ways of expressing and receiving boundary setting can be nuanced and differentiating conflicts from true disconnection doesn't have to be daunting. Exploring the root causes of betrayals can be safe and healing. With sensitivity towards cultural and family of origin differences and each partner's neurodiversity, respect and understanding for each other's beliefs and backgrounds are part of the process.

After graduate school, completed an additional four years of training at the Family Institue of Westchester in New York, an insitute that specializes in training fully licensed therapists who want to specialize in couple and family therapy.

After graduate school, completed an additional four years of training at the Family Institue of Westchester in New York, an insitute that specializes in training fully licensed therapists who want to specialize in couple and family therapy.

When I'm practicing traditional couples therapy I often take a more directive role, guiding the sessions and providing recommendations based on my expertise. By combining evidence-based methods like Gottman Therapy, Internal Family Systems (IFS), and Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), I help couples navigate conflicts, rebuild trust, and strengthen bonds.

Are you feeling stuck or even hopeless in your relationship? Perhaps you have a strong loving connection and cannot understand why the same patterns keep resurfacing. Through my work with couples, I believe it only takes one person to spark the forward motion to elicit change. It does not matter who starts only that you start. I’m here to support you both in your personal self-development, building a bridge back to one another from a solid foundation.