create a deeply connected partnership.
Marriage Therapy in California, Texas, and Florida.
You’re tired of feeling like no matter what you do, nothing improves.
It’s like yoU Can’T Break Free of the negative cycle your Marriage is stuck in.
Most couples I work with have delayed seeking therapy hoping their relationship would improve on its own. Declines in medical marriages often occur more rapidly with the added stress of one or both partners' medical careers. The earlier couples seek treatment, the better their outcomes. Utilizing Emotionally Focused Therapy and the Gottman Method, I combine attachment-focused, trauma-informed care with directive skill-building exercises to help my clients create the relationships they desire.
Sound like you?
Struggling to communicate without every interaction escalating?
Tired of feeling alone in your relationship?
Ready to stop getting pulled back into the same negative cycle?
Wishing that your marriage was as successful as the rest of your life?
Medical Marriages Require Specialized Care
Understanding the role that medicine plays in any medical marriage is key to the work I do with couples. The stressors medical marriages face are unique and, although they vary from couple to couple, they may include strain caused by years of training, frequent moves, financial stress, atypical work schedules, poor work-life balance, burn-out, lack of partnership and connection at home, exposure to trauma, moral injury, patient-related stress, malpractice lawsuits, and the stigmatization of mental health care for physicians, medical professionals, and their partners.
As a marriage and family therapist married to a physician for almost two decades, I have witnessed the struggle of physician friends who have sought out marriage therapy only to feel disheartened and pathologized because their therapist didn’t understand what a life in medicine entails for either partner or the impact on their relationship. Skilled and understanding care can help medical couples navigate these external stressors while healing their relationship.
I help Couples with…
Communication
Intimacy
Betrayal
Affairs
Addiction
Sex/Porn Addiction
Stress of being in a Medical Marriage
What we’ll work on
Imagine a life where…
There is more connection than disconnection in your marriage.
Conflict rarely if ever escalates because you feel safe and connected to your partner and know you will work it through.
You are best friends instead of adversarial strangers.
You and your partner enjoy a satisfying and playful sex life.
Your partnership finally feels equitable.
You model a loving, happy, and connected marriage for your children.
You can trust your partner to protect your relationship.