Couples therapy offers a collaborative space to strengthen your relationship, improve communication, and reduce conflict. At Axis, we use evidence-based methods tailored to your needs — whether you’re working through recurring arguments, life transitions, or simply want to build a stronger connection.
My Specialities
I specialize in working with couples facing high-intensity conflict, communication breakdowns, and patterns that feel difficult to shift without support.
I also have extensive experience with sexual and gender minority couples, helping partners navigate identity-related stressors, family pressures, and relationship dynamics unique to LGBTQ+ communities.
At Axis, couples therapy is structured, active, and grounded in research-supported approaches. We focus on understanding the cycles that keep you stuck, strengthening communication, and building patterns of connection that support real and lasting change.
What to Expect
Couples therapy typically begins with an assessment phase, where we identify patterns, strengths, and areas of concern. From there, we develop a shared plan that includes:
Clarifying goals and expectations
Understanding cycles that keep conflict going.
Building skills in validation, effective listening, and expressing needs.
Reviewing progress together and reinforcing changes that last.
Sessions are active and collaborative — you won’t just talk about problems, you’ll work on solutions and strategies you can use in daily life.
Core Approaches
My work is grounded in well-established, research-supported interventions, selected based on your goals and needs. Some of the treatments I practice include:
Integrative Behavioral Couple Therapy (IBCT)
A leading evidence-based model combining behavioral skills with emotional acceptance work to reduce conflict and increase closeness.
Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT)
A well-established model that helps partners identify reactive patterns, reduce negative cycles, and strengthen secure emotional bonds.
The Gottman Method
A structured approach focused on communication, conflict management, emotional connection, and building shared meaning. Backed by decades of relationship research.
DBT for Couples
Drawn from Dialectical Behavior Therapy, emphasizing emotion regulation, validation, distress tolerance, and more effective communication during high-intensity interactions.
Additional methods — including ACT-based strategies, mindfulness, behavioral activation for couples, and functional analyses of relationship patterns — are incorporated when relevant.
