Looking for Couples Counseling or Relationship Counseling?

I will provide Gottman couples therapy based on the findings of three decades of research on more than 3,000 couples conducted by John Gottman and his colleagues at the University of Washington. The foundation for this approach is articulated in Gottman’s book, The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work.

First, each partner will complete a packet of assessments which will identify your strengths as a couple and the areas for improvement in your relationship.  The therapy will then target those identified areas for improvement, and any other issues you may want to address.  These areas for improvement generally fall into three categories:

  1. the quality of your friendship,
  2. the regulation of conflict, and
  3. supporting one another’s individual dreams and nurturing shared goals. 

I will help you learn and practice new relationship skills, challenge ineffective attitudes, and build more positive feelings into your relationship.  We will also work together to solve underlying problems in the relationship and to accept the ones that cannot be changed.  Gottman therapy is designed to be short-term; four months is a reasonable expectation to see improvement in your relationship.