Great Couples Counseling in Bay Harbor Islands, FL. Therapy to heal relationships.

I believe in the power of couples therapy to change the dynamics in your relationship. Having a trained Marriage and Family therapist to help you identify and become clear in what you need to do differently to improve your marriage and change the dynamics in your relationship can help. If you are both willing to make changes I have helped couples on the brink of divorce and in the middle of overwhelming crisis overcome these things and be closer than they ever imagined they could be.

COMMUNICATION AND SUPPORT IS VITAL FOR A MEANINGFUL AND LOVING MARRIAGE OR RELATIONSHIP. Sometimes we struggle to identify our needs to our partner and don’t know what they truly need in the relationship. Even when you want to show love and be loved, it is difficult when one or more partner struggles to be emotionally available. The couples or marriage therapist helps couples support each other during crisis, open up about their feelings, and reconnect with the fun in their relationship.

Couples will explore their unique make-up, their strengths, their challenges, and what brings them together. They will gain the courage to see their true relationship and how it affects the quality of their life and they will be empowered to define what they want in their relationship and how to achieve that. Interacting, communicating, and relating skills will be explored and learned in sessions for the purpose of improving, restoring, and healing relationships.

Couples often engage in ineffective patterns of relating that lead them to experience moderate to sever dissatisfaction in their interactions and the life they share. Establishing clear boundaries, effective guidelines for communication, distributing power and influence among other, are strategies that can help couples thrive and develop higher levels of intimacy

Since 1992 I have been helping couples and business partners create relationships that work better and bring new, creative solutions to their lives. I have helped couples struggling with Infidelity and the aftermath of an Affair to learn how to rebuild their trust again. I have been helping men and women overcome Anger, Stress, Anxiety, Depression, Compulsive Behaviors, Alcohol and Substance Abuse and Sexual Problems. I have helped literally hundreds of people create better, more satisfying lives.

As a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT), I have extensive training and experience helping couples navigate some of the most painful and difficult chapters of their relationships. My approach is both compassionate and practical, shaped by years of walking with couples across the country as they work through challenges of trust, intimacy, and communication. I have also been featured in leading outlets such as Forbes, The Knot, Women’s Health, Yahoo, Self, Glamour, and AARP for my insights on relationships, intimacy, and communication. Whether you are facing ongoing conflict, a loss of closeness, or the aftermath of betrayal, I would be honored to meet with you and your partner.

Couples therapy offers a supportive environment to improve communication, rebuild trust, and deepen emotional connection. Whether you're facing conflict, life transitions, or simply feeling distant, our therapist helps both partners feel heard and understood. You'll learn tools to resolve disagreements more constructively, strengthen your bond, and grow together as a team. Every relationship faces challenges, and couples therapy guides you in navigating them with care, honesty, and renewed commitment to each other.

Do you have the same argument over and over again? Are you feeling alone, misunderstood, or disrespected in your marriage? I can help you work through these issues through couples counseling, and help you break the unhealthy patterns that aren’t working. Renewing trust, improving communication, and regaining the spark are all possible. Being married myself, I know that marriage is work, and that love is a choice. But even intelligent, loving couples sometimes need support. You deserve better than what’s happening now. If you’re willing to put in the work, I can help. Our mission is to help you escape the cages that hold you back and become the lion you were created to be.

We are passionate about and skilled with helping couples to repair and strengthen their relationship by utilizing techniques from evidence-based practices such as Emotionally-Focused Couples Therapy and the Gottman Method. These techniques help get to the heart of the matter to increase relationship satisfaction and heal emotional injuries that may have occurred throughout the relationship or as a result of previous trauma. Individual therapy for each partner is also recommended as best practice for helping each person to work through their personal traumas.

Most couples have problems with communications, such as anger, depression, anxiety, substance abuse, etc. I help each of you to identify and express what you believe is harming your relationship. Then, I help each of you identify which small changes you can make in your day-to-day life that will result in big changes and better communication in your relationship.

In Couple’s Counseling; I accept the view that as individual we are complex beings who are multifaceted and therefore multi-storied. So in working with a couple, I try to balance the conversation, so that each feels heard. My aim is be neutral to each, as much as possible. So in the initial session we collaborate in setting ground rules. I encourage autonomy so each know his/her right to govern their own freedom of choices and behaviors. I steer away from cookie cutter activities as I believe that in the process of therapy client will use their resources to find their own path that work for their relationship. I utilize an integrative approach to therapy.

Working with couples is extremely specialized and should only be done with a trained clinician. Please ask the right questions to ensure you are in good hands with someone who knows how to guide you. The client is the relationship - not the individuals! So an individual therapist is not the way to go here. At KML, we have a trained PSYPACT psychologist who is licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT), so she can work in any PSYPACT state. This work should focus on what the couple wants for their relationship (sometimes the goal is uncoupling kindly), guiding the couple in healthy growth of the relationship, and all without shame! Relationships are hard and we are here to help!

Couples need to work as a team. Do you miss the romance, communication and affirming words? What about the surprises and offering to help one another? Do you share quality time, without reaching for the cell phone every second? Rekindle the romance, put the sparks back into your life, yes there is hope. There is healing and harmony available to you. We will help, call us.