Relationship Issues

Whether this be with friends, family, or romantic partners, I believe relationships can serve as a mirror to show us where our strengths and challenges lie. Relationships can trigger us and feel very challenging and at the same time uplift us and make life feel like it's worth living. If relationships tend to be a challenge for you and you notice the same patterns repeating, I can help you in gaining insight and the skills needed to nurture healthy and fulfilling relationships.

One of my areas of expertise is helping people explore relationship dynamics whether it is in couple's therapy or working in individual therapy on how you show up in the relationship or addressing negative relationship dynamics. Relationships can mean romantic partners, friendships or business relationships.

With a background rooted in attachment theory, I provide a safe and supportive environment to explore the complexities of high school friendships, adult relationships, familial dynamics, or romantic connections. In our therapeutic space, I offer an opportunity to examine boundaries, enhance effective communication, build trust, and deepen connection.

When you're struggling with the closest people in your lives, everything else is gonna be affected for the worse! Couples or small family work with me involves teaching communication, how to slow down and listen, and also how to get in touch with the good in life that may have lapsed. If things are going pretty well, but you see some trends you don't like, getting some extra support might help change your path.

Relationships are hard. I work with a lot of individuals who are either learning to identify or are recovering from toxic relationships or who just have had trouble maintaining healthy relationships. We all carry wounds from previous relationships, and we can look to our partner to heal them for us, but it turns out, that doesn't work, and it's really an inside job. By improving communication, conflict resolution, and identifying our own triggers as well as strengths, we can grow.

I work with couples navigating infidelity, parenting issues, and sex. I also work with individuals wanting to date or explore their sexuality.

Much of my training revolved around relationship health. Understanding how relationships can affect individual mental health as well as to how to aid in achieving the most health in your relationship(s) has been hallmark to my practice. I have worked with strained parent-child relationships, dealing with a difficult personality in your life, dating relationships, employer relations, family conflict, couples conflict, friendships’ conflict, aging parents, and much more.

With a background rooted in attachment theory, I provide a safe and supportive environment to explore the complexities of high school friendships, adult relationships, familial dynamics, or romantic connections. In our therapeutic space, I offer an opportunity to examine boundaries, enhance effective communication, build trust, and deepen connection so that you may experience harmony in your relationships.

How we feel about the relationships in our lives are so interconnected to our overall life satisfaction, which is why I feel like it's so important that we understand our relationship history, patterns, and how these relationships have (and continue to) impact us. We'll dig into relationships with our families of origin, romantic partnerships and friendships and identify any sources of trauma and how these affect our behaviors, while also improving boundary setting and communication skills.

Are you struggling to find lasting romantic love? Is your life lacking a fulfilling connection to others? Do you find yourself repeating patterns with unhealthy and toxic people? With individual relationship counseling, you’ll uncover your true relationship desires, examine your relationship patterns, learn how to communicate your feelings and needs, and get what you want out of your relationships to achieve a feeling of connectedness that we all yearn for.

Nearly all my clients struggle with relationships at some point during our work together. Many find that their relationships have also been impacted and further complicated by trauma, systematic oppression and stressful circumstances.

Through my comprehensive and science-backed approach, I support couples in achieving their relationship goals and building a lasting connection. Our work together will help you learn how to begin working as a team against the issue, rather than turning against each other. Beyond conflict management, I will help you nurture your friendship, deepen emotional intimacy, and reignite the romance that serves as the foundation of a thriving relationship.

I help individuals navigate relationship struggles through an attachment-focused lens, exploring how early experiences shape emotional connections. Whether you're dealing with insecurity, conflict, or difficulty trusting others, I help guide you in building healthier relationship patterns, increasing self-awareness, and fostering deeper, more secure connections with yourself and others.

The emotional tone and quality of our closest relationships affects everything in our life. It can change the way we experience physical pain, energy, hope, pleasure, play, and much more. I approach helping improve relationships with helping clients sort out their thoughts and feelings about their relationships and get clear about what they want and their goals. Then we work on interventions: communicating our wants, tolerating conflict, setting boundaries, sparking joy, and building trust.

I help clients improve relationships: partners, family members, co-workers, friends.

Relationships can be difficult to navigate and even sometimes, to understand. Understanding your partner and working to give the same amount of grace we'd give to ourselves while working through relationship concerns is a lot to take on without a guide. Emotions get in the way of seeing things clearly. Please allow me to be your sherpa!

Working primarily with married and unmarried couples of all types, adult individuals, and families, I am a Certified Emotion-Focused Couples Therapist (with the International Centre for Excellence in EFT) and a Level I AEDP clinician (AEDP Institute). I hold a Certificate in Interpersonal Neurobiology from Portland State University, and I also provide EMDR, sand tray trauma therapy, and I have a Psychiatric Service Dog, Rontu, who assists me!