When the same conflicts leave you feeling hurt, disconnected, or alone, there’s a way to explore what’s really going on.

Couples and adult relationship therapy helps you explore the emotions beneath conflict, tend to unhealed pain, and build a more loving, secure connection over time.

Many loved ones find themselves caught in familiar tensions, miscommunication, or emotional distance or reactivity, even when both people deeply care about each other. Sometimes the way we learned to connect or protect ourselves shows up in ways that leave everyone feeling unheard, overwhelmed, or alone. Couples therapy offers a contained space to slow down together, understand what’s happening beneath the surface, and begin building connection in a way that feels responsive, secure, and sustainable.

I love working with these types of relationships especially

I work with adults 18+ in relationships of all kinds including friends, colleagues, monogamous and non-monogamous or polyamorous lovers, family members such as adult children and their parents, adult siblings, or other extended blood or non blood related family. As long as it involves at least two consenting adults willing to participate in the therapy process together, my door is open to you all.

Navigating relationships is an important part of your everyday life. Sometimes these relationships need an outside observer to help you understand the moments that are difficult and offer you a way out of your negative cycles. If you are encountering obstacles you are finding difficult, couple, relationship, or family therapy may be beneficial. I provide couples therapy, marriage counseling, and family therapy in Missouri, Illinois and Florida.

You might be asking yourself how relationship therapy can actually help.

Through therapy the goal is for each individual in the relationship to learn to:

  • Identify the emotions that drive your behaviors and learn to share those emotions with one another
  • Identify and ask for the things you desire to have in a healthy relationship
  • Listen to each other for understanding of the other’s perspective
  • Become open to and willing to trying to meet one another’s needs as best as you can
  • Leverage your complimentary strengths and weaknesses for a closer relationship
  • Be honest with yourself about your role in moments of distance and disconnect
  • Hold yourself accountable for change within yourself so you can show up in your relationship
  • Work through conflict while maintaining connection and minimizing harm to self and other
  • Be aware of where one person ends and the other begins, improving the balance of individuation and connection (interdependence)

Some things you should know about the cost of sessions

I do not accept insurance for couples or family therapy due to the model of therapy that I use for this type of service. Because I use a family systems framework, which treats the unit as a whole, I will not identify one individual as the identified patient with a diagnosis and I will not center the work on one specific individual. Therefore this does not allow me to offer this service in a way that is medically necessary according to insurance contracts, which require me to identify one patient, provide a DSM diagnosis, and structure the therapy to treat that individual with others present in support of one individual. This does not mean that one or all members of the relationship can’t have a mental health DSM diagnosis. It just means that one person’s diagnosis is not the center of the sessions.

$175/1 hour session

$262.50/1.5 hour session

$350/2  hour session