Relationships bring out the best and the worst in us. Navigating the space between love and heart-break not only challenges us but can reopen our earliest traumas. Sometimes, our partners become strangers to us. Sometimes, we become strangers to ourselves–numbing out from our feelings or exploding in anger as if out of our bodies. Negative cycles in relationships are often due to emotional triggers from a past relationship. We are often continuing conversations we started in childhood with our parents, siblings, and even other lovers. If unresolved trauma and relational wounds escalate stress during a simple disagreement, this can be deeply hurtful and confusing for both partners — this is where somatic couples therapy is most powerful.

I work with couples on a wide spectrum of issues.

You will learn to identify your emotional reactions in the moment and recognize the core needs underlying them. Additionally, you will discover how to communicate skillfully with your partner about your needs without becoming angry or shutting down. I integrate somatic therapy, trauma healing, and attachment practices in my work with couples to help individuals find safety, emotional connection, intimacy and passion in their relationships.

Through this work, you will develop deep insight and compassion for the tender fears of abandonment and loss that each of you carries. By gaining freedom from unconscious fears and habitual cycles, you will have the opportunity to transform a conflict-ridden relationship into one that activates the healing potential of love.

As a trauma-trained somatic oriented couples therapist I integrate many tools. Such as, mindfulness, tracking body activation, trauma training, bringing curiosity into defensiveness, and exploring the source of painful narratives.

I really do believe that couples therapy is a wonderful way to not only resolve conflicts and develop deeper intimacy and connection with your partner, but also is a way to heal individual pain.