Couples Therapy
Reasons for Couples Therapy
Communication Problems
Blended Families
Addiction
Infidelity / Unfaithfulness
Sex & Intimacy
Financial Disagreements
Division of Labor
Value Differences
Parenting Skills
Couples Therapy
I use a counseling approach that is research based with proven results, using over 3,000 couples.
You and your partner will learn to:
1. Manage Conflict
2. Remove Emotional Barriers to Increase Empathy
3. Nurture Your Friendship
4. Increase Respect
5. Improve Intimacy
The Gottman Method: An Evidence-Based Approach
Your counselor has completed Level 1 and Level 2 Gottman Trainings and understands the most important concepts to help you and your partner develop these skills to strengthen your relationship.
The Gottman Method has over 40 years of data that tells us exactly what keeps relationships strong and what breaks them apart. Using the Gottman Method, we break down the anatomy of your relationship and focus on emotion, behavior, shared meaning, personal stories, interactional patterns, and conflict. The goal is to develop new skills that allow you and your partner to more easily identify emotions, manage conflict, nurture your friendship, and to create a system of shared meaning–things you look forward to.
A Better Way to Fight
The following PDF handout, as presented by The Gottman Institute, is an example of the skills you and your partner can practice when nagivating conflict. Managing conflict is an important skillset–one that we focus on in couples thearpy–to help you learn how to engage in conflict in a way that validates your own experience, while also respecting your partner’s experience.
More About Couples Therapy
Getting Started is Easy
Register through the Client Portal
Choose a day and time that you would like to meet. Then, complete the requested contact information and hit “Request Appointment.”
Request Appointment
Once you have requested an appointment, you will be sent a follow-up email within 24 hours confirming the request was received.
Attend 1st Session!
Your counselor will send you a link to complete the necessary paperwork (through the portal) before your appointment. See you soon!
Frequently Asked Questions
How can couples therapy help me?
Couples therapy is meant to help partners create awareness and better understand the various thoughts and emotions that make us human. For example, it is not wrong to feel a certain way (angry, hurt, or mistrusted). Rather, the way we communicate and interpret these emotions and the thoughts that accompany them are often what many couples find to be dysfunctional and cause stress. Therefore, in couples therapy, we work together to develop skills to improve “the way” you and your partner manage conflict and emotions.
How long is an appointment?
Couple’s counseling takes place in 75-90 minute sessions depending on the couple’s needs.
What can I expect from our first meeting?
During the first session, your counselor will take the time to learn about the history of your relationship. After the first session, you will be asked to complete a series of questionnaires, called the Gottman Relationship Check-Up Analysis. The Gottman Institute charges $39 to access the questionnaires. Your counselor will invite you to complete the questionnaires. In that invite, you will be asked to pay the Gottman Institute directly.
How will we meet?
Individual and couples therapy will be conducted using telehealth services. You will have access to a secure and encrypted client portal that we will use to meet during each appointment.
Contact Me
Ask a question or seek additional information below.
For emergencies call 911 or visit your nearest hospital
501-510-3286
Mailing Address
194 Dakota Dr. STE B #183, Cabot, AR 72023
