Relationships are hard work. Maneuvering the different stages we go through, from the passionate young relationship to the balanced long-term relationship can be exhausting. We get this idea that our relationship doesn't look like everyone else's relationship, therefore something must be wrong. But holding on to that can just end up causing more conflict within ourselves and with our partners.
As a marriage and family therapist, it is my goal to help you to challenge those external expectations of how your relationship should be and help you figure out what the relationship is and then decide if that's the relationship you want. To do this, we generally alternate between meeting one week as a couple and meeting the next week individually for 45 minutes.