Do you need help with:
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• Improve your communication skills and handle disagreements more effectively and constructively?

• Understand each other's needs and vulnerabilities and respond more effectively?

• Rediscover joy, connection and intimacy—both emotionally and sexually?

• Managing challenges and identifying negative interaction and reaction patterns?

•  How to communicate safely with openness and respect?

• Finding your way back to each other after infidelity?

• Clarifying the future of the relationship, or, if needed, receiving professional support for a respectful and dignified separation?
   

Our intimate relationships have a decisive impact on our lives because they shape and develop us. Research shows how important couple relationships are for our mental health, well-being, and overall life satisfaction. Yet, we are taught very little about what it means to be human and to have deep, nourishing, and intimate relationships.​

Differences, oppositions, and disagreements are something all couples experience. We carry with us imprints and cultural patterns from the close relationships we grew up in, as well as from previous partnerships. Many expectations and assumptions are never clarified—and may not even be conscious—until we feel hurt, become angry, or feel misunderstood. Understanding each other, communicating well, and managing the challenges of everyday life can be demanding, and it is easy to feel powerless and overwhelmed.

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​In couples therapy, I emphasize creating a safe space and are very attentive to understand and explore the patterns that arise between you.​ How we deal with differences is a fundamental challenge in relationships. By increasing awareness of both your own and your partner’s communication and reaction skills and patterns, you can better understand why seemingly “innocent” statements or actions trigger frustration, arguments, silence, or withdrawal. This also involves becoming aware of how each person’s history affects the dynamics of the relationship. Equally important is recognizing what contributes to safety and intimacy—physically, emotionally, and mentally.  The relationship can be a catalyst for growth and development, but you can only change your own patterns, behaviors, feelings, and reactions.

The goal is to increase self-awareness of your own patterns and the impact they have on the dynamics between you. Rather than repeating inappropriate behavior and old wounds, therapy provides the opportunity to heal and discover new paths toward a more nourishing, secure, and vibrant relationship. One that accommodates both deep connection and solitude, and everything in between.