Couples Therapy LA | Build Trust, Repair, and Connection
Care Options in LA & Across California
Care is available in-office in Santa Monica and via secure telehealth across California. Some couples prefer brief, goal-focused work to address a specific stuck pattern; others choose ongoing support that we adjust as life evolves. We’ll define clear milestones, track progress, and decide together when to widen or pause care. If you’re searching for couples therapy LA and want practical, non-shaming guidance you can use between sessions, I’ll meet you where you are and help you take the next right step—one skill at a time.
When Your Relationship Feels Stuck
Relationships can feel strained by miscommunication, recurring conflict, mismatched desire, parenting stress, or the fallout from anxiety, depression, trauma, or health changes. This work helps partners slow down reactive patterns and create room for empathy, clarity, and choice. If you’re seeking support, you likely want concrete tools—not vague advice. Our focus is emotional safety, repair after ruptures, and practical ways to reconnect—so you can navigate differences, make decisions together, and rebuild a sense of team without losing your individual voice.
Evidence-Based Skills for Real Life
We’ll focus on skills you can use in the moment—speaker–listener turns, repair scripts, and step-downs to calm conflict. DBT-informed emotion regulation and distress tolerance create more choice between trigger and response. We’ll refine bids for closeness and responses that lower defensiveness, so connection and autonomy can coexist. Intimacy concerns—desire mismatch, pain, or performance anxiety—are addressed with sex-therapy strategies, clear consent language, and gradual, body-aware pacing. The aim is a relationship that feels steadier, safer, and sustainable.
Practical Tools for Closer Connection
We’ll build skills that translate to everyday moments: speaker–listener communication, repair conversations, and conflict de-escalation. Emotion regulation and distress-tolerance tools from DBT can reduce reactivity and increase choice in the heat of the moment. AACAST and the Dialogue of Emotional Intimacy (DEI) methods help partners make clearer bids for closeness, listen without defensiveness, and balance autonomy with connection. We’ll also address sex and intimacy concerns—desire discrepancy, pain, or performance pressure—using sex-therapy strategies, consent language, and paced exposure to rebuild comfort and curiosity. The aim is connection that feels steady and sustainable.