
Couples
Therapy
in Pleasant Hill and Alamo, CA
frequent conflicts
broken trust
growing apart
infidelity
parenting styles
resentments
intimacy

When couples hit roadblocks, therapy provides a path forward. By fostering trust, understanding, and empathy, partners break free from conflict cycles and reconnect. As insight deepens, barriers fade, making space for healing and change. If your relationship is at a standstill or you're unsure how to improve or salvage the relationship, couples counseling can really help.
Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) helps couples identify and express underlying emotions and needs in a safe space. Sessions lead to recognizing and reshaping negative patterns, fostering emotional intimacy, trust, and security. Imago Relationship Therapy (IRT) uncovers dynamics and patterns driving conflict and disconnect. By exploring attachment styles, couples gain insight into relational patterns and learn communication and problem-solving skills to foster deep empathy, understanding, and connection.
Relationships can be challenging, while also bringing immense joy, connection, and growth to life. When couples seek therapy, they are often facing obstacles that feel insurmountable. Healing begins with understanding, which is why each perspective is heard and validated. Creating an atmosphere of trust allows each partner to feel understood. Through building mutuality and empathy, couples can dismantle the barriers that have kept them stuck in cycles of conflict and disconnection. As insight into themselves and each other grows, the barriers that once seemed insurmountable begin to fade. If your relationship is at a standstill or you're unsure how to improve or salvage the relationship, couples counseling can really help.
Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) helps couples identify and express their underlying emotions and needs in a safe and supportive environment. Guided conversations and exercises lead to recognizing and reshaping negative patterns, fostering emotional intimacy, trust, and security. Imago Relationship Therapy uncovers the dynamics and patterns driving conflict and disconnection. By exploring early life experiences and attachment styles, couples gain insight into relational patterns and learn communication and problem-solving skills to foster empathy, understanding, and connection.

We work collaboratively to explore strengths, address challenges, and create a roadmap for positive change and growth in your relationship.
Some of the key areas we can work on in couples therapy:
Improve communication
Address underlying/unresolved issues
Practice better listening and fighting fairly
Rebuild the friendship, respect, and trust
Manage a crisis such as infidelity or addiction
Identify and change unhelpful patterns
Regain your intimacy and passion

Harville Hendrix
we are born in relationship, we are wounded in relationship, and we can be healed in relationship
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3189 Danville Blvd, Ste 250
Alamo, CA 94507
395 Taylor Blvd
Pleasant Hill, CA 94523
925-830-7900
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emotional wounds
power struggles
separation anxiety
trouble focusing
sibling rivalry
disruptive behavior
defiance & disrespect

When couples hit roadblocks, therapy provides a path forward. By fostering trust, understanding, and empathy, partners break free from conflict cycles and reconnect. As insight deepens, barriers fade, making space for healing and change. If your relationship is at a standstill or you're unsure how to improve or salvage the relationship, couples counseling can really help.
Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) helps couples identify and express underlying emotions and needs in a safe space. Sessions lead to recognizing and reshaping negative patterns, fostering emotional intimacy, trust, and security. Imago Relationship Therapy (IRT) uncovers dynamics and patterns driving conflict and disconnect. By exploring attachment styles, couples gain insight into relational patterns and learn communication and problem-solving skills to foster deep empathy, understanding, and connection.