When helpful, I may offer strategic individual sessions as part of the couples therapy process to support progress, connection, and the work we are doing together. Personalized resources and homework may be provided to help continue work between sessions.
Couples therapy can help you develop communication skills for difficult conversations, gain greater awareness of your relationship patterns, and work toward restoring trust, emotional connection, and intimacy.
Couples
Therapy
Yes, online couples therapy can be an effective way to improve communication, strengthen connection, and work through relationship challenges while offering the convenience of meeting from home.
Is Online Couples Therapy Effective?
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Premarital and relationship counseling
• Learn your communication and conflict styles
• Get clear on your love language and attachment style
• Learn emotion skills to build emotional closeness and trust
• Understand family influences on your relationship
• Learn how to navigate differences and negotiate needs with care
• Learn skills to be feel prepared for future life transitions
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Support for:
Get to know your relationship pattern(s)
Build communication skills that support emotional safety, confidence, intimacy, and healthy boundaries
Understand how unmet childhood needs affect relationships, and learn how to meet needs in healthier ways
Explore attachment patterns and learn strategies to build the connection you want so you get the love you want
Identify relationship patterns and develop new behaviors that shift dynamics to meet emotional and relational needs
Heal and recover from codependency, repair trust after betrayal, and restore intimacy
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Support for:
Nonviolent communication techniques to express needs and feelings safely
Skills to enhance communication, empathy, active listening, and deepen friendship
Navigating conflict and repairing relationship ruptures
Recognizing how past survival / coping skills impact your adult relationships
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Support for:
Building emotional safety
Expressing concerns, feelings and needs
Rebuilding trust with professional guidance
Processing and healing after betrayal
Learning about forgiveness and self-forgiveness
Planning for the future—together, apart, and/or as effective co-parents
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Support for:
Restoring intimacy, strengthening connection, and building relational skills for the love and life you want
Learning the language of emotional intimacy
Expressing feelings safely and openly
Strengthening physical closeness and affection
Building a safe, trusting, and secure relationship
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Support for:
• Family planning and pregnancy support
• Adjusting to life with new baby and shifting family dynamics
• Parenting stress and role changes
• Co-parenting and communication challenges
• Launching young adults
• Improving parent-adult child relationships
Areas of Focus
How Can Couples Therapy Help?
Is Couples Therapy Private Pay or Covered by Insurance?
Couples therapy is offered on a private-pay basis and is not billed to insurance. This allows for greater privacy and flexibility in the therapy process. For current session rates and additional information about fees, see the Frequently Asked Questions.
Does Couples Therapy Include Individual Sessions?
Couples Therapy in Newbury Park, CA
Many couples quietly wonder…
Sometimes the tension can feel
heavier than the connection, and the relationship may start to feel lonely.
“How do we know
if we need marriage counseling?”