General Couples Therapy

Who This Is For

You can be successful in your career and still feel completely stuck in your relationship, running the house like roommates who share a calendar, fighting the same argument, or worse, done fighting altogether. You have already tried the surface-level fixes. The pattern is still there.

How long have you been managing this instead of dealing with it? What is going to change if you keep doing what you are doing?

I only see couples. Sessions are 90 minutes on Zoom, and I am licensed in Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Hampshire and Rhode Island. You need to be physically in one of those states during the session.

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• Couples Therapy for High-Achieving Professionals

How We Work

Assessment Phase: We begin with one session together, then an individual session with each of you, so I can understand the relationship before we decide where to focus. Those hours are for understanding, and I am not there to take a side.

Weekly Sessions First: We generally start weekly, because what you do between sessions matters more than what you understand in the conversation, and as those changes become consistent, we space the sessions out.

Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT): EFT was built for couples, so we look at the pattern that keeps pulling you into the same fight and work toward a more secure connection. I also use Gottman Method tools from Level 3 training, and I am trained in Relational Life Therapy.

Between-Session Work: I will give you specific practices for home, and I expect you to use them. Next time I will ask what happened when you had a chance to respond differently.

Accountability: You can have a legitimate complaint about your partner and still be contributing to the dynamic you want to change. If the conversation starts circling, I will stop it.

Flexible Scheduling: Evenings and weekends are available, and a smaller caseload means I can usually move a session when something urgent comes up. If you or your partner are in crisis or unsafe, call or text 988, or call 911.

What We Address

• Communication breakdowns and the same fight on repeat
• Emotional distance, including the roommate stretch of a marriage
• Life transitions: a new baby, an empty house, a career change
• Different ways of fighting, and the pattern under them
• What to do in the moment when I am not on the screen

What to Expect

Longer sessions mean more gets done each time we meet, and how long therapy takes depends on the work you do between sessions. Some couples return later for maintenance, once they trust themselves with the difficult moments.