Maintenance Therapy

Who This Is For

Your relationship is good, and you are paying enough attention to notice it sliding from good toward fine, and from fine toward a conversation nobody wants to start.

You invest in your career, your health, and your finances, while the relationship is the one you keep meaning to get to after the day is over. Maintenance therapy is for couples who still like each other and want to catch small issues before they become the whole marriage.

Why Maintenance Matters

You already know how the drift works: a sharp comment on a Tuesday, nobody repairs it, and a month later you are polite and far away, because life got full and closeness became the thing you would do after everything else.

You do not have to wait until you are wondering whether the relationship will survive. Addressing something while you still like each other is a perfectly reasonable decision, and I wish more couples made it.

How Maintenance Therapy Works

Regular Check-Ins: This is maintenance, so the sessions are spaced. We decide the pace from what is happening at home and from what you actually do between sessions. A fixed calendar would only pretend we already know what the next season requires.

Proactive Focus: We strengthen what is already working, and we name the friction while it is still small: the tone, the phone at dinner, the way one of you goes silent and calls it peace.

Life Transitions: A new job, children leaving home, retirement, or a move can destabilize even a strong relationship. We look at that transition together while you are still on the same side.

Skill Building: We keep working on communication, repair after a fight, and paying attention on purpose, so you get better at being together when I am not on the screen. Sessions are 90 minutes on Zoom. I am licensed in Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Hampshire and Rhode Island.

What We Address

• Staying connected in a busy season
• Life transitions you go through together
• Small issues before they become the whole marriage
• Growing on your own and as a couple
• Keeping intimacy and romance alive
• Outside stress before it takes over the relationship

Who Benefits Most

Couples who finished harder work and want to keep what they gained. Couples who are generally happy and want to stay that way on purpose. Couples in a major transition. Couples who treat the relationship as worth the same attention they give their health and their work.

If you are unsure whether you want to stay, say so. You do not need to pretend you are certain in order to begin. If maintenance is the wrong fit, I will tell you.