Couples Therapy

Each person in a couple brings their unique relational history and relationship templates, as well as individual subjectivities to the relationship. Therapy focuses understanding unconscious wishes, fears and defenses often rooted in familial and earlier relationships, intersecting identities, and life experiences. Openly sharing thoughts and feelings that couples often fear expressing is essential to the work. Bringing hidden and unknown feelings to conscious awareness clarifies what might be distressing to the couple so they begin to make sense of the present to move onto the future. When couples gain insight, they understand how these unknown and unexpressed experiences affect relational trust, intimacy, and dependence. Working with you in couples therapy will provide the tools neccessary establish new patterns and ways of relating. These are essential functions of couple’s work that fosters deeper connection, hope, and improve both emotional and sexual intimacy.