Specializing in couple and family therapy for adults age 18+ in a family, including adult siblings, adult children and their parents, multigenerational adults and extended family members, close friendships, couples and polyamorous relationships.
Whether you are a parent, adult child, sibling, spouse, partner, or part of a polyamorous or non monogamous relationship, navigating your 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 and Illinois and am ready to assist you in your relationships. The family or couple is seen as a systemic unit and all members are invited to participate in sessions.
Your relationship might be in the early stages of development, a lifelong relationship, and anywhere in between. Regardless, attending couple, marriage, or family therapy can help you determine how to maintain, grow, or change the relationship in a way that feels healthy and secure to you. 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.
Through therapy the goal is for each individual in the relationship to learn to:
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)
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.
$175/50 minute session.
Does this sound like you?
You’re feeling the distance between you and your partner(s)/family growing and you are becoming worried. Even in a relationship you’re feeling alone. You want a deeper connection but you aren’t sure how to make that happen. You are hoping to get help feeling safe with vulnerability so you can reconnect with one another and take your relationship to the next level.
Can you relate to this?
You are frustrated that it seems like you can never say the right thing. You worry about how frequently you and your partner(s)/family miscommunicate. You are feeling tired of conflict and arguments that leave you tense and anxious. You want help to explore how you might better communicate through differences while maintaining closeness with one another.
Is this your experience?
Trust in your relationship has been compromised. Partner(s)/family are feeling hurt, scared, betrayed, guilty, remorseful. Your efforts to repair the relationship have not been effective and you aren’t sure how to move forward. You want help with rebuilding trust and finding ways to get your relationship to a more healthy place.