We all want positive, fulfilling relationships. And yet, all too often, committed loving people can lose track of each other as the challenges of LIFE - work pressures, financial commitments, children, caring for aging parents, and personal health issues – intrude on relationships. The excitement of early love becomes eclipsed by tired familiarity. Over time, constant fighting, neglect and hurt feelings cane wear holes in the fabric of a relationship. You are both good people who have somehow become caught up in a negative way of relating to one another, and are stuck there. When effective tools to resolve conflict and hurt feelings are missing, the hurt soon turns into resentment.  Left unattended, intimacy and caring begin to erode, to the point where you may feel like roommates instead of intimate partners. You may also feel terribly alone, even though you are living in a close relationship. The gap between you can become huge, with countless untended hurts, and unspoken or unresolved resentments. Unless you can turn and look at this unhappiness together, the outlook is bleak … a passionless, distant togetherness, shaped by children and house projects, or a painful separation and the loss of your hopes and dreams.

The good news is it’s never too late to begin the healing process.

Uncomfortable and dysfunctional relationship patterns can be changed. Therapy can help to resolve the blocks to connection and assist you in re-establishing the intimacy you once enjoyed.

My approach to helping you with your relationship begins with the premise that you both have good reasons for the dysfunctional interactions (which are usually a protection from negative and hurtful encounters) that have brought you to this painful place with each other.

I can help you to hear each other, understand each other and respond to each other in ways that will repair and rekindle the connection you once so enjoyed.

Relationships are wonderful, complex and form when you meet someone who resonates with your essential longing for connection. I’ve worked with people in an amazing array of relationships including:

• Marriage/Common-law Relationships
• Lesbian/Gay Relationships
• Parent – Adult Child Relationships
• Professional Relationships
• Friendships

If you are wondering if a relationship you have would benefit from some time spent working with me, I welcome your phone call or email to discuss how I can support you.