Couples therapy

Intimate relationships often reveal our deepest needs and fears. They can also be where we feel the most known and accepted. Every relationship encounters challenges, cycles through harmful patterns, and requires mutual effort between partners to grow.

Trained in Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) for couples, I strive to create a safe, accepting space for partners to identify unhelpful patterns and create new, authentic connections. Partners can build more effective communication, identify their negative cycle, and explore tricky conversations in a new, more connected way. I work with couples to explore how each of their needs and desires can share space within the relationship. Therapy can act as preventive care for your relationship, particularly during life transitions (e.g., moving, becoming engaged or married, entering parenthood, etc.).

I specialize in therapy for Asian American couples and multicultural and interracial couples.

I work with couples around the following themes:

What is Emotionally-Focused Therapy?

Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) is an evidence-based model founded upon the belief that humans are wired for close, intimate relationships with others. Such need for attachment is normalized and made sense of in the therapeutic space. In other words, EFT creates a nonjudgmental space for emotions, needs for connection, and the skills we’ve developed to protect ourselves. In session, EFT therapists collaborate with couples to identify their “negative cycle” — that is, the fights that keep coming up — and explore new ways to communicate and engage with each other, all within a safe, neutral space.