Marriage counseling that Heals in Brentwood, CA. Restore Your Relationship.

I provide couples counseling which can be beneficial whether you are married or in a long term partnership. Therapy can be helpful for all couples to open up communication, gain mutual understanding and have a safe place to be vulnerable.

I provide premarital counseling to couples planning to get married to help ensure that their marriage starts on a healthy foundation. I provide marriage counseling to couples who are struggling with day-to-day challenges as well as life changing events.

Rooted in attachment, neurobiology, and client-centered work, I use experiential methods to help those who feel disconnected from others and themselves find the link playfully back to being in relationship. I serve children, adolescents, and adult individuals.

We are all made for relationship and marriage is one of the most special relationships we aspire to in life. I can help you work through relational challenges to improve your marriage and experience the relationship you and your partner desire!

I work with adults in relationships of all kinds. Whether you are dating or have been married for decades, I respect your commitment and I am here to help you learn better communication, connection, and find your path to love and support. No judgment, just compassion.

Premarital Therapy is the most requested form of couples therapy in my practice. Addressing issues that often don't develop until after marriage and providing conflict resolution tools to the couple to support healthy communication assists reducing future conflicts.

When entering a committed relationship we have a desire and expectation for friendship, mutual respect, love and validation. It takes work, it takes courage, it takes support and training to arrive at this ideal.

Together we will build your marriage toolbox! I work with couples to identify and break unhelpful patterns and cycles. You will learn tools to communicate more effectively, address unhelpful barriers and build bridges towards restoration and foster genuine connection.

Sylvia has pioneered therapeutic approaches to communication skills with families & couples. She facilitates seminars on marriage. She is certified in Prepare/Enrich. Sylvia also has significant experience working with adolescents and children including victims of crime

I specialize in 'all things relationship:' especially marriages, using cognitive, psychodynamic, and trauma resolution models.

I specialize in working with couples. I trained with couples therapy expert Terry Real (Author of "Us" and use his Relational Life Therapy approach, which helps couples to navigate more effectively the natural relational cycle of disharmony, harmony, and repair.