Couples Therapy

Working with married, engaged, dating, or co-habituating couples, I apply many of the same core principles as when treating individuals. Considering each partner’s unique feelings, perspectives, experiences, and learned behavioral patterns, the nature of the relationship is explored as an entity unto itself in need of nurturance. I support couples to engage mindfulness and mindfully based living, essential to understanding the dynamics of their relationship. Incorporating mindfully based stress reduction techniques and cognitive behavioral techniques to benefit each partner, imperative behavioral changes flourish, interrupting and breaking dysfunctional patterns and cycles of communication manifested in the relationship. Supporting couples to utilize skills such as reflection, active listening, and verbalization of thoughts and feelings, partners learn to pause and

  •  respond vs react

  •  engage issues surrounding intimacy

  •  recognize how one’s own emotional baggage spills into relationship dynamics

  •  notice how blame and accusations cloud  judgement

  •  experience compromise vs sacrifice

  •  define acceptance vs expectation

  •  practice truthfulness vs untruthfulness

  •  comfortably assert one’s self vs lapse into controlling or avoidant tendencies

  • understand relevance of both self and other

FAQs

  • Couples seek therapy for various reasons. While some partners might want to address their communication styles, parenting differences, boundaries, or matters surrounding intimacy, others might be seeking help coping with infidelity, lack of trust, emotional abuse, co-dependency, or compulsions—to name a few. Often, couples are addressing several issues in therapy.

  • Yes. The HIPAA compliant teletherapy platform I utilize allows partners to be seen at one time from two different locations within the state of Connecticut.

  • Most behavioral health insurance policies cover couple’s therapy via teletherapy.