Relationship Counseling

Counseling For Creating Or Reigniting Relationships That Flourish

Relationship Counseling For Individuals | Premarital Counseling |

Relationship Check-in For When Things Are Going Well | Couple’s Therapy |

Therapy for Infidelity & Other Breaches of Trust

Are you looking for relationship counseling & support?

Whether you are just starting out in your relationship or have been married for two years or two decades, there is always space for beginning anew in the ways you communicate in your partnership.

Relationship counseling is not a space you go to give your relationship CPR. While it can be that, there are many other ways we can create something special in your relationship now.

Two young women smiling and happy about their new relationship

All relationships benefit from counseling with a supportive therapist.

Even Healthy relationships benefit from counseling, as do new ones

Old, new, or ready to begin again, no matter what you’ve been through, all relationships thrive with support and communication.

Developing a well-balanced framework for your friendship with your partner sets you up for success in your relationship and as individuals advocating for your needs and celebrating one another.

LET’S TALK ABOUT YOUR NEXT STEPS →

Therapy for New Beginnings

In Marriage

When you change the shape of your relationship in subtle yet profound ways, you have a unique opportunity to look toward your future as a couple and decide what you want that to look and feel like. From determining the big things like the shape of your family, career paths, and retirement choices to the everyday things like household chore division and intimacy, you’ve got lots of life to explore together in all-new ways.
Reaching for your dreams to pave a road toward making them a reality can be a powerful experience, especially with the support of a licensed counselor guiding those plans and your feelings along the way. Approach your new beginning with confidence.
In a Relationship

Starting something new can feel magical, sweet, and a little bit overwhelming. Learning to communicate in uncharted waters often leaves us feeling off-balance. If you’re excited to be navigating this but a bit unsure how to do so productively, we want to support you.
Whether you are coming into counseling solo for relationship guidance or as a couple approaching things in a new way, there are so many ways to build healthy practices into your relationship.
We’re happy to support a myriad of relationship elements—from boundaries in sex, communication, and affection, and the language used to convey them.
When Family Size is a Struggle

Parenthood, or being held back from it, is an emotional time. Whether you are still deciding your family size or struggling to get pregnant, fertility and family planning can be a difficult space to navigate.
At any stage in your fertility journey, we want to support you in navigating the questions, concerns, and emotions you’re feeling so you can move through them together. A partnered approach to navigating this stage is helpful in reducing tension.
When There's Been a Breach of Trust

Relationships where trust has been put to the test require a new beginning just as much as the areas mentioned above.
While moving forward together may be the goal, it will be essential to spend time reviewing where communication and other fundamentals of the relationship broke down. Both partners need support in these moments, as the renegotiation of boundaries and each partner’s needs take their turn as the focus of the conversation.

Relationship Assessments Used in Counseling

The Prepare/Enrich Assessment

The Prepare/Enrich tool is a research-based assessment cultivated through over 4 million uses to create a personalized profile of your relationship in order to build the most focused understanding of one another possible.

With four versions for multiple relationship stages, this versatile tool shines in building supportive skills for any couple.

As Prepare/Enrich facilitators, we’re happy to offer this revolutionary assessment alongside the other tools we develop together to help you highlight and work through problems before they arise.

The Gottman Relationship Check-up

Dr. John Gottman has conducted over 4 decades of research into the shape and form of relationships at every stage. Along with Dr. Julie Gottman, their extensive clinical experience chronicles each step of relationships in exquisite detail.

The Gottman Relationship Check-Up was created by tailoring the sum of this knowledge to be a responsive and interactive tool for every couple. With over 400 questions to assess the health of your relationship, this tool engages with every facet of your relationship- as a unit, and as individuals.

Questions will touch on many aspects across the spectrum of relationships: “friendship, intimacy, emotions, conflict, values, and trust, as well as parenting, housework, finances, individual areas of concern, and more” (Gottman Institute, 2021).

You can expect to spend around 2-4 hours completing the questionnaire but from it, we gain valuable insight into the focus of your growth as we move forward together.

Cultivating Health In Your Relationship

A healthy relationship starts with individuals who want to shape a transparent and supported space for growth in their own worlds and in the space you share together. Health isn’t a destination so much as an ongoing learning experience. In relationship counseling, we can develop the tools to ensure that you feel empowered to maintain health in every aspect of your relationship, through every stage of life.

Let's Talk ➝

Communication is the way you share information, through words and language, but also in more minute ways like the way you move your body or the expressions on your face.
In our time together, we will develop communication skills that help strengthen what you say and see in one another, as well as skills to help dispel the things you can’t say or see.
Talking about the good stuff seems easy, yet it’s an often overlooked part of developing good communication. When your relationship feels good, that doesn’t mean it’s time to coast. There is space to take up and work to do in those moments, and celebrating the good is part of that.
Learning to acknowledge your partner’s success as well as your own and ask for more of what you need in the relationship can be a powerful relationship skill that sustains your connection.
In times of struggle or frustration, your communication can be the lifeline by which one of you carries both through. Overwhelming emotions can be challenging to share with someone, especially if they are negative or you fear repercussions due to past experiences or trauma. Using the supported space we create in your counseling relationship will allow you to tackle complex subjects in easier-to-handle sections as you move through them together to develop strategies that support you now and in the future.

Building Boundaries

Developing boundaries for every facet of your relationship is one of the greatest gifts you can offer your partner as well as yourself. Knowing exactly what you need, how you want to receive it, and where you draw the line can help to avoid painful moments in vulnerable spaces.

Deciding where your hard stop is and being able to communicate that firmly (but respectfully) before you arrive there will transform your empowerment and reduce the friction in your relationship.

Boundaries may look like:

“I can’t talk about this right now.”
“I’m feeling fragile, can we try again later?”
“This isn’t something I’m comfortable with.”
“This makes me feel unsafe, please stop.”
Boundaries will always:

Draw a line on your availability
Place your agency back with you in how you spend your energy
Protect your safety
Boundaries may:

Feel scary or uncomfortable
Be difficult to express
Make you feel empowered

What we can explore together

Relationship counseling doesn’t have to be a place you land as a last resort. Whether you are starting something new or looking for things to try, there is so much power in choosing to be proactive in the care and development of your relationship.

While we learn about one another and work through the early stages of establishing support, you will create the safety that will allow you to have hard conversations in healthy ways and carry them home and into your future together.

Relationship counseling is a powerful tool in starting something new, not just reshaping what you’ve got. Let’s talk about what that may look like and step into your healthier future together.