C‍ouples, friends, polycules, siblings, co-parents, situationships, parent/child….up to four people.

My interest in the field of therapy started here, with a 40- hour mediation training and hours of practice holding the middle between loved ones dealing with anger and estrangement.  Sometimes, no matter how much you care about each other, the pain and anger feels too hard to work through. How can they think that—it is obviously this! Major ruptures or seemingly endless little injuries lead to mutual resentment, and defenses go up. When that happens, it is helpful to have another person in the “room” to bring everyone back toward center and help find shared solid ground. 

I' often think about it like a human body: once knots build up, they don’t just go away, and as they build up they make it harder to function and enjoy life. They need to be massaged out. In therapy, we work together to find the source of the knots and, in the process, help all parties to a relationship feel more fully seen, more able to be their authentic selves with their relationship partners, and become more adept at communicating with and truly understanding their partners.