Relationship Therapy

 While many clients come to us for help with romantic relationships, we also support those navigating parenting challenges, family dynamics, and even professional relationships that impact emotional well-being.

You love your kids. But parenting with a partner—or ex-partner—can bring up tension, resentment, and power struggles. We help parents:

  • Navigate different parenting styles
  • Rebuild respect and teamwork in the parenting relationship
  • Co-parent effectively after separation or divorce
  • Support each other while still honoring your own identity

Not all difficult relationships are romantic. If you feel stuck in painful cycles with family members or friends, therapy can help you:

  • Set healthy boundaries with family of origin
  • Grieve or process estrangement
  • Navigate toxic or one-sided friendships
  • Reconnect with the people you care about—or learn to protect your peace

Work relationships can be emotionally exhausting, especially when boundaries are unclear or communication breaks down. We support clients navigating:

  • Conflict with coworkers or managers
  • People-pleasing, burnout, and emotional overfunctioning at work
  • Toxic workplace dynamics
  • Career decisions tied to values, confidence, or chronic stress

Because we’re all hardwired for connection.

When you’re stuck in painful patterns with the person you love, it can feel like everything else in life starts to unravel. Maybe your arguments never seem to resolve. Maybe the silence feels even worse. Maybe there’s been a betrayal, and you’re not sure how—or if—you’ll get through it.

Whatever brings you here, we want you to know: there’s hope. Relationships don’t have to be perfect to be worth saving. And healing is possible—even if it feels out of reach right now.

  • Recurring conflict or communication breakdowns
  • Emotional distance, disconnection, or loneliness
  • Infidelity, betrayal, or broken trust
  • Intimacy issues—both emotional and sexual
  • Parenting differences, life stress, or transitions
  • Recovering from trauma together

We’ve worked with couples on the brink of divorce, those recovering from years of hurt, and partners who love each other but feel lost. In every case, we help you slow down the cycle, understand what’s really going on underneath the arguments, and build a new path forward—one marked by honesty, safety, and connection.

We use Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT)—one of the most research-backed approaches for improving relationship satisfaction and emotional closeness. EFT helps you get beneath the surface-level conflict and understand the attachment needs driving your patterns.

Depending on your situation, we may also integrate:

  • Sex therapy and intimacy work
  • Discernment counseling (for couples unsure whether to stay together)
  • Trauma-informed therapy, including EMDR
  • Faith-integrated couples counseling (if requested)
  • Psychoeducation and skill-building (communication, repair, boundaries)

We know it takes courage to be vulnerable in front of your partner—especially when things feel fragile. That’s why we create an emotionally safe, nonjudgmental space where both of you feel heard. We’re not here to take sides. We’re here to help you both feel understood—and to rediscover what it means to turn toward each other instead of away.

You don’t have to keep having the same fight over and over.

 You don’t have to pretend it doesn’t hurt. 

You don’t have to give up.

Whether you want to reconnect, rebuild, or figure out your next steps—we’re here to walk with you. You don’t have to do it alone.

Eating Disorders - It's Not About the Food

By Kelly Lopez

If it’s not about the food, what is it really about?

The eating disorder serves a function, it does a job. Despite the problems an eating disorder creates, it is an effort to cope, shield against, communicate, and solve problems. Behaviors may be a way to establish a sense of power or control, self-worth, strength, and containment. Bringing may be used to numb pain. Purging may be a way to release emotions. When one cannot cope in healthy ways, adaptive functions (behaviors) are created to ensure a sense of safety, security, and control.
According to Carolyn Costin*, some of the “adaptive functions that eating disorder behaviors commonly serve are”:
It’s not about the food, it’s a way of coping with low self-esteem, negative emotions, physical, emotional, and sexual abuse, unstable home, difficulty resolving conflict and much more.
*Costin, Carolyn. The Eating Disorder Sourcebook: A Comprehensive Guide to the Causes, Treatments and Prevention of Eating Disorders. 3rd. edition, McGraw Hill, 2007.
Fuller, Kristen. “Eating Disorders: It’s Not All about Food.” Psychology Today, Sussex Publishers, 22 Mar. 2017