Great Couples Counseling in Chapel Hill, NC. Therapy to heal relationships.

Couples counseling and sex therapy are specialty areas of mine. I work with people in various stages of relationships, tackling a variety of concerns and dynamics including relational and sexual issues, infidelity, desire changes, lack of excitement, changes in the relationship, and many others. Having an objective third party helps couples find more clarity in their direction forward. I work with each couple to better identify the problematic patterns or behaviors in their relationship as this can be difficult to navigate without an objective third party. I help improve overall emotional and sexual intimacy, and provide clients with strategies they can use throughout their relationship.

My approach to couples counseling involved educating couples on empirically identified factors that contribute to a healthy relationship. Couples identify their important emotional needs and what their partner does that causes unhappiness. They commit to meeting one another's emotional needs and to stop being the cause of one another's unhappiness. Couples are encouraged to spend several hours each week giving one another undivided attention to overcome causes of unhappiness and in meeting emotional needs. Structured assignments are given to facilitate this process with excellent results.

Using a combination of Gottman Method Couples Therapy as well as Sue Johnson's Emotionally Focused Couples therapy, I will help you and your partner identify your problem areas and negative cycles that keep you stuck and support your relationship moving back into a pattern of ease and intimacy. We will support increased core emotion expression, identification of each individual's needs, breaking down old negative habits, and reconstructing new habits that will keep your connection strong for the long term. Let's discuss your needs today in a free consultation.