Couples & Marriage Counseling

"Never stop being curious about your partner. Don't assume you know who they are today". - John M. Gottman

Relationships can be both deeply fulfilling and full of challenges. Utilizing techniques pulling from Emotionally Focused-Therapy and The Gottman Method, we offer couples counseling to help partners overcome communication barriers, rebuild trust, and foster deeper emotional and intimate connection to create or recreate a strong foundation.

We help our couples better understand the dance of their relationship, their patterns of communicating, and the unmet needs that they are trying to communicate.

Sometimes, our relationships can get stuck in cycles that feel unsustainable or overwhelming. These can include:

• Communication Issues

  • This can look like feeling misunderstood, unheard, escalating conflicts, or difficulty expressing emotions or needs.

• Loss of Intimacy / Emotional Disconnection

  • “We feel more like roommates than partners”

• Recurring Conflict or High Reactivity

• Attachment Style Conflicts

  • One partner is avoidant, and one is pursuing

• Infidelity & Trust Repair

• Sexual Intimacy Concerns

  • Shame, trauma, performance anxiety

• Life Transitions

  • Becoming a new parent, loss of a job, blended families, and caregiving

• Parenting or Co-Parenting Conflicts

• Mental Health or Trauma Impacts on the Relationship

  • One partner’s anxiety/depression or PTSD causing emotional withdrawal or over-functioning

  • Other partner feels like a caretaker rather than a partner

Good news: Aligned Therapy Collective is here to provide a supportive, nonjudgmental space to explore your relationship dynamics and develop practical tools for lasting growth and change.