Couples Therapy
No matter the topic, these are the phrases I hear most frequently in my office. I help you work through the emotional gymnastics and dive into the work that makes a difference.
We start with 3 intake sessions.
Session 1: The first session is with you and your partner. We’ll get to know each other, your history together, and get an idea of what is happening between the two of you.
Sessions 2 & 3: These sessions focus on an intake with each of you to understand where you came from and how you’ve developed your unique way of trying to stay connected to your partner.
Session 4 and beyond: Together, we build a space where you can both be free to express yourselves and to be heard and understood clearly without all the scrambled, emotional messaging. In this space, we’ll heal and guide you back to each other.
Take a look at the below for the most common issues I help couples to resolve.
Emotionally Focused Therapy
Emotionally focused therapy is an evidence-based approach that helps people recognize and change patterns that keep them stuck in conflict.
EFT provides a roadmap to help partners decode defense mechanisms, identify and express core emotions that lead to safety, trust, and lasting connection.
Interracial, Intercultural, Interfaith Relationships
When partners come from different racial, cultural, or religious backgrounds, certain conversations can feel especially high-stakes. These topics often touch our most deeply held values, making them harder to name and navigate. Jeanie offers a grounded, supportive space where these vulnerable conversations can unfold with care—providing a safe landing for exploring differences, strengthening understanding, and deepening connection.
Parenting / Co-parenting
Parenting can test the strongest relationships. Therapy can help partners and co-parents communicate more effectively, navigate conflict with empathy, share the load, and reconnect as whole humans, not just as parents.
Loss of Emotional & Physical Intimacy
Loss of emotional or physical intimacy is a common experience in long-term relationships. Often it’s not from lack of love, but from repeating the same strategies meant to keep you connected—strategies that, over time, can accidentally create more distance. Jeanie offers a space to slow down, understand these patterns with compassion, and rebuild intimacy in ways that feel safe, mutual, and sustainable.
High-conflict & Betrayal
High conflict and betrayal can deeply shake a relationship’s foundation, but the relationship doesn’t have to defined by it. Jeanie provides a structured space to repair trust, understand painful cycles, and restore emotional safety. Through this work, partners can create a resilient bond that is more secure than it seemed before wounding.
Phase of Life Transitions
Life transitions—even joyful ones like marriage, a new baby, or kids leaving home—can feel disorienting and create unexpected distance between partners. Communication can get tangled and it’s easy to lose your footing with each other. Jeanie offers space to untangle those emotional knots, reconnect, and move through change with clarity, steadiness, and a renewed sense of partnership.