Healthy relationships are essential for a thriving life, and yet some individuals may find themselves in a vicious cycle of reenacting unhealthy patterns in their relationships. Healthy and satisfied couples work hard to explore how to grow into more harmony both within themselves individually and together as two partners within a relationship.

The challenge with unhealthy relationships

“Finger-pointing” or accusations are two easy ways to send a relationship into a downward spiral. You and your partner deserve to be in a happy, healthy relationship. This requires adopting a perspective of being teammates and of partnership in which the health of the relationship is the top priority, meaning that both people must put their heads together to explore solutions to improving the relationship health. Rather than focusing on blame or fault, we help you come back together as a team that can tackle the challenges between you that are keeping you disconnected, distant, frustrated, or angry with one another. We will explore why you got together in the first place, what has changed from then to now, and navigate how you as a couple can stay together if that is your goal. Please note, relationships with active abuse will be referred out for individual counseling first as couples counseling is not ethically appropriate or safe for couples with a clear, active abuser and a clear victim in danger. This is very specific and different from an unhealthy relationship in which both parties treat one another poorly consistently and there is not a clear abuser. We utilize Gottman method assessment tools as needed to identify which relationships are appropriate or not for couples therapy.

How we’ll help you