Couples Therapy
Couples Therapy
Relationships can feel confusing or frustrating when the same old patterns keep repeating. You might feel disconnected, isolated, or like you’re living more like "roommates" than partners. You just know something has to give—and you’re both ready to look beneath the surface.
In our sessions, we’ll slow things down, map out the underlying cycle driving the friction, and help you step out of defensive reactivity into genuine emotional safety and connection.
I use an integrative somatic and attachment-informed framework (drawing on Emotionally Focused Therapy principles). My goal isn't to force a specific outcome or hold a relationship together at all costs—it is to help you gain absolute clarity on where your relationship needs to grow (whether together or apart) and support you in navigating that process with dignity.
Scheduling & Intensives
Weekly & Bi-weekly Sessions: Limited in-person evening sessions in downtown Plymouth, MA, as well as weekday daytime sessions via telehealth (MA & FL).
Weekend Couples Intensives: I offer focused, 3-hour weekend intensives in downtown Plymouth or online for couples looking for deep, concentrated momentum. If you are interested in an intensive block, please mention this in your initial inquiry.
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Most couples who reach out are exhausted, burned out, and feel like they’ve been banging their heads against the same wall for months or years. You might be coming in at a breaking point where you can barely articulate the core issue anymore.
What matters most isn't having the right words—it is a shared willingness to show up, stay curious about your own contributions to the dynamic, and commit to treating each other with basic respect inside and outside of the room.
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Common dynamics we explore:
The exhausting "push / retreat" cycle where one partner pursues or nags and the other shuts down or stonewalls.
Living parallel lives—sleeping separately, avoiding shared time, or feeling more like roommates than partners.
Loving each other deeply, but feeling like you’ve lost romantic connection and worrying it might be "too late."
Feeling unsure about the future of the relationship, but wanting to give therapy an honest, committed effort before making a decision.
Outside my scope of practice: To protect the integrity of our work, I do not treat these as primary issues, but am happy to provide referrals:
Active infidelity or recent betrayal trauma
Primary sexual dysfunction or trauma (though broader intimacy and touch are addressed)
Open, non-monogamous, or uncommitted dating dynamics
Dedicated co-parenting or custody mediation
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My approach is integrative and attachment-informed, drawing heavily on Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) principles—a framework centered on understanding how we seek safety, connection, and belonging with one another. I also weave in somatic tracking and mindfulness to help both of you stay regulated. You aren't just minds having an argument; you are physical bodies reacting to perceived disconnection, and we slow down enough to notice that in real time.
The Intake & Session Structure:
Joint Intake Session: We begin together in a shared 60-minute session to map out where your relationship is right now, identify the reactive cycle, and define what you hope to rebuild.
Individual Assessment Sessions: Next, I meet with each partner one-on-one for a single session. This gives us space to explore your personal attachment history, family of origin patterns, and individual triggers without your partner in the room.
Ongoing Joint Work: We come back together to do the core relational work. Most couples complete between 8 and 20 sessions depending on complexity and goals.
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Couples therapy requires a safe, predictable container to be effective. To protect our therapeutic space, our sessions cannot serve as:
A facilitated arena to simply repeat the same explosive arguments you have at home.
A space where active, unaddressed substance misuse or active secret-keeping (such as ongoing affairs) is present.
A space where verbal abuse, berating, yelling, or intimidation occurs.
If intense dynamic distress arises during our work, we will pause and build a safety plan moving forward. However, if abusive behavior or severe stalls in safety continue, couples therapy will pause until individual safety and stability can be reestablished.
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Joint Intake Session: $225 (Initial session)
Weekly Sessions (60 mins): $185 per session
Biweekly Sessions (90 mins): $230 per session
Weekend Couples Intensives (Downtown Plymouth or Virtual): $500 for a focused 3-hour deep-dive block (9:00 AM – 12:00 PM with a 15-minute break).
Due to the relational nature of couples work, insurance cannot be billed for these sessions, nor can I provide a superbill as that would require I diagnose one partner. In true couples therapy, the relationship is the client, not one client vs. another.
