Marriage counseling that Heals in Pittsburg, CA. Restore Your Relationship.

I specialize in 'all things relationship:' especially marriages, using cognitive, psychodynamic, and trauma resolution models.

All deep, long-term relationships trigger emotional wounds and learned patterns. I work with couples who want their relationship to be a pathway toward healing and transformation. We use experiential processes to deepen authentic communication and enhance intimacy.

I use Internal Family Systems (IFS) to help couples identify parts that are interacting within a relationship, developing a better understanding of themselves and their relationship patterns.

I provide premarital counseling to couples planning to get married to help ensure that their marriage starts on a healthy foundation. I provide marriage counseling to couples who are struggling with day-to-day challenges as well as life changing events.

Rooted in attachment, neurobiology, and client-centered work, I use experiential methods to help those who feel disconnected from others and themselves find the link playfully back to being in relationship. I serve children, adolescents, and adult individuals.

I Show Couple How To: *Move From Rejected To More Connected *Reduce Criticism & Increase Acceptance & Validation *Feel More Empowered, Calm & In Control *Decrease Fear & Increase Trust & Safety *Reduce Fighting & Arguing & Increase Understanding, Kindness & Compass

If you Love your partner a lot, but they drive you crazy. Are you alone in your relationship? Does your partner not really see you for who you are? I can help change the painful dance that you are caught in. I love helping Therapy Resistant Men empathize & listen!!!

I provide couples counseling which can be beneficial whether you are married or in a long term partnership. Therapy can be helpful for all couples to open up communication, gain mutual understanding and have a safe place to be vulnerable.

Relationships have become increasing difficult in these stressful times. Couples often require support and a neutral place to identify and work through their issues. I help couples to focus on the positives and manage the conflicts while building friendship and trust.

I specialize in working with couples. I trained with couples therapy expert Terry Real (Author of "Us" and use his Relational Life Therapy approach, which helps couples to navigate more effectively the natural relational cycle of disharmony, harmony, and repair.

I work with couples to repair and rebuild their relationships. My goal is to help couples find a deeper understanding of one another and create a more meaningful relationship where more effective communication and healing can occur.

Premarital Therapy is the most requested form of couples therapy in my practice. Addressing issues that often don't develop until after marriage and providing conflict resolution tools to the couple to support healthy communication assists reducing future conflicts.

We want connection- a space to be vulnerable and truly seen. But emotional intimacy is risky, and that scares us, especially with a difficult history! Instead of being vulnerable, we build up walls to protect us. Let's break down the walls and build a loving connection.