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THERAPY

Relationships are hard—and that's okay.

Even deeply loving relationships can get caught in patterns that create distance. Emotions surface, reactions happen quickly, and partners can feel misunderstood or alone.

Couples therapy is a place to gently unpack these moments—understanding the emotional and attachment needs beneath them while developing skills that help you stay connected through conflict and change.

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Who Couples Therapy Is For

couples therapy might be the right fit if you're:

Stuck in the same arguments, feeling like you're talking past each other
Navigating trust issues, infidelity, or betrayal and trying to find a path forward
Feeling disconnected—like you're roommates instead of partners
Working through mismatched desire or challenges with intimacy and sexuality
Preparing for marriage and deepening commitment and want to build a strong foundation together
Exploring ethical non-monogamy or alternative relationship structures
Processing grief, loss, or major life transitions as a couple
Ready to enhance intimacy, pleasure, and connection within yourself and in your relationship

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Create your new path

Heather creates a soft and safe space to share the deepest parts of your soul and is able to help you envision and forge a road to where you hope to go. Her belief that the universal “you” can heal, grow, and love freely guides her conversations. She is magical.

– Maddie Pettit –

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Supporting your process

Heather has a genuine warmth and compassionate vision as a therapist, coupled with creativity, humor, and an open presence to the client's process. She's always so kind & encouraging, a rich quality in the therapy space that's perfect for healing & growth.

– Justin Jenkins –

What We'll Work On Together

Couples therapy creates the space to understand each other's emotional world and rebuild connection.

Relationship patterns: Why you feel the way you do, and what your anxiety, depression, or self-protection strategies are trying to tell you.

Communication: Learning how to finally hear each other beneath the patterns, and rebuilding connection from a place of understanding

Attachment and Safety: Helping your body learn that it's safe to settle when you've been in survival mode for so long.

Intimacy and Sexuality: Creating space to explore how your bodies hold patterns—what feels safe, what shuts down, and how to reconnect to pleasure and presence together (if this is part of your work)

My Approach with Couples

I work from an emotionally focused, attachment-based lens, which means we're exploring the emotional needs and patterns underneath your conflicts.

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Somatic Concentric Sex Therapy:

A body-centered approach to working with intimacy, sexuality, and connection—exploring how your bodies hold patterns and how to reconnect to pleasure and presence together

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Nervous System Co-regulation:

Helping you both learn to settle together, so conflict doesn't feel like a threat to the relationship

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Communication Skills

Drawing from Emotionally Focused Therapy, Nonviolent Communication, and Psychodynamic therapy, you will learn how to identify what is happening for you, ask for what you need, and let your partner know you hear them.

WHAT TO EXPECT

Starting couples therapy can feel vulnerable. Here's what the process looks like:

First session:

We'll begin with a free 20-minute consultation (with both of you) where we discuss what's bringing you in, your relationship goals, and whether we're a good fit.

If we decide to
work together:

Our first full session is about hearing both of your stories, understanding the patterns, and beginning to map out where we'll focus.

Couples therapy works best when both partners are willing to show up and engage.

That doesn't mean you both have to be equally ready or completely certain this will fix everything. It means you're both willing to be honest, stay curious, and work on understanding each other differently.

Some couples come in with both people equally committed. Others have one partner who's more hesitant. Both scenarios are workable, as long as you're both willing to try.