Portland Couples Therapy
Therapy for Relationships & Couples
Therapy for individuals and couples who wish to develop healthy relationship patterns, improve communication, build trust, and grow intimacy.
Are you feeling distressed about your relationship or struggling to maintain healthy connections?
I’m here to help
Restore a Sense of Friendship & Harmony
Offering therapy rooted in Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) & Gottman Method
Instead of struggling with the same relationship patterns imagine how it would feel to finally…
Improve connection
resolve conflicts
repair and build trust
increase intimacy and affection
create healthy dynamics to establish emotional safety and openness
Gottman Focused Therapy
go from disconnected to best friends
Cultivate healthier patterns
Heal from old relationship patterns and find new, healthy ways to connect.
Renew your sense of friendship
Create rituals of connection and a perception of love and admiration.
Learn how to repair
Arguments are inevitable. It’s normal to argue! Despite what many people believe. HOW you argue and HOW you repair is what matters.
Insights from Gottman Research About Relationships
Unsolvable Problems
69% of problems couples experience in a relationship are perpetual, meaning they will never be resolved due to differences.
Successful Couples
Couples who successfully remain together have 5 positive interactions for every negative interaction during conflict.
Quick to Repair
The most successful couples are those who are quick to repair following a fight.
Relationship Concerns
In addition to building a healthy relationship, I enjoy helping individuals and couples who are impacted by the following:
Effective Gottman Therapy
The Gottman method is a research based framework for helping people recover and build lasting relationships. Since 69% of issues in relationships are due to perpetual problems or those that can’t be resolved, Gottman method provides techniques for improving relationship dynamics from the heart. Couples will learn how to build a firm foundation for their relationship, so that challenges can be worked through together as partners. This is known as the Sound Relationship House Theory.
The Sound Relationship House has two weight bearing walls that strengthen the relationship and include:
- building love maps
- sharing fondness and admiration
- turning towards each other instead of away
- establishing positive perspective of your partner
- conflict management skills
- making life dreams come true
- creating shared meaning
- building trust and commitment
Integrating Gottman method into couples therapy gives you daily practices to apply in your relationship.
Replace what’s not working with something deeper and more meaningful.
Emotionally Focused Therapy
Heal Uhelpful Patterns & Build Emotional Intimacy
Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) is a therapeutic approach that focuses on the emotional experiences and attachment of individuals and couples. For individuals, EFT helps to explore emotions deeply, identify patterns in emotional responses, and develop healthier ways to connect with themselves and others. The goal is to foster emotional resilience, self-compassion, and the ability to navigate life’s challenges with greater emotional intelligence.
For couples, EFT focuses on strengthening the emotional bond between partners by identifying and addressing negative interaction patterns that create distance and conflict. The therapist helps couples express their emotions and needs in a way that fosters safety in being vulnerable, understanding, and connection.
By creating a safe and supportive environment, EFT helps couples rebuild trust, deepen their emotional connection, and create a more secure and fulfilling relationship.
Frequently Asked Questions
Get your couples counseling questions answered here. If you have more questions, reach out today.