Couple's Therapy
Slow the moment • shift the pattern • take it home
Why You Might Call
You’re sharp, capable, and care about each other, but you keep tripping over the same spot in the hallway. Whether it’s an old trust hit, a money loop you can’t solve, or the low-grade drift into “just roommates,” you’re tired of the replay button.
My Hybird Approach to Treatment
Relational Lens – Problems live between you. We study the pause, the flinch, the joke that suddenly isn’t funny.
Attachment Decoder – Anxious reach or tactical retreat? We name the move without blame so you can choose, not react.
Systems Context – Kids, careers, and cultural expectations all press upon the partnership; we map their influence so they stop steering the wheel.
Live Rehearsal– Say the hard line directly to your partner while I hold neutral ground; we tweak tone, pace, and posture until it lands accurately.
Practical Experiments – Every session ends with one micro-step you can test before we meet again.
My Role
- Doctor of Psychology, dually licensed as a marriage and family therapist, licensed professional clinical counselor in relational and systemic work, and 18 years teaching graduate students at Pepperdine University, both in person and via Zoom.
- I sit in the middle, ask important and possibly uncomfortable questions to help you solve your challenges, and I never take sides.
Logistics
Intake: one 90-minute mapping session
Cadence: weekly 50-minute meetings to start, flexible around travel or crunch weeks. Taper off when you are ready.
Where: in-office in Yorba Linda or Zoom.
Results You’ll Notice
Fights wrap in quicker rather than in hours.
Repairs happen the same day, not the same month.
Stress gets named early, before resentment drafts emails in your head.
Affection feels voluntary again; no scorecards.
Over twenty-five years of doing this work I’ve seen strained marriages steady, silent dinners trade for easy conversation, and trust rebuild after events that once felt unfixable. The pattern is consistent: when two people show up, stay curious, and practice the small experiments we design together, change follows often faster than they imagined.
If you’re willing to put in that kind of effort, I’m confident we can chart progress you’ll feel in your everyday life and look back on as a turning point rather than a rough patch.
