Rebuild Trust. Strengthen Connection. Move Forward Together
Every relationship experiences challenges, but you don’t have to navigate them alone. Couples therapy provides a supportive space to improve communication, repair conflict, rebuild trust, and strengthen emotional connection.
Carlene utilizes evidence-based approaches, including the Gottman Method, Emotionally Focused interventions, cognitive-behavioral techniques, and trauma-informed care to help couples understand unhealthy patterns and create healthier ways of relating.
Counseling Sessions & Fees
Couples Therapy Session
80 minutes
$200
Support for couples working through communication challenges, conflict, emotional disconnection, trust concerns, intimacy issues, parenting stress, life transitions, premarital concerns, and relationship repair.
Sessions are grounded in the Gottman Method to help strengthen connection and build healthier patterns.
COUPLES THERAPY
Couples Therapy May Help With:
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Communication difficulties
Frequent conflict & arguments
Affair recovery
Betrayal trauma
Rebuilding trust
Emotional disconnection
Intimacy concerns
Premarital counseling
Parenting
Blended family challenges
Major life transitions
Strengthening healthy relationships
Frequently Asked Questions
A Collaborative, Relationship-Focused Approach
A Collaborative, Relationship-Focused Approach
Carlene provides a supportive space where both partners can discuss their concerns, identify relationship strengths, and clarify what they would like to change.
Sessions focus on understanding the patterns that contribute to conflict or disconnection. Partners work toward recognizing the needs beneath these patterns and developing healthier ways to communicate, respond, and repair.
Therapy Approaches Used for Relationship Repair
Gottman-informed interventions help couples strengthen friendship, manage conflict more constructively, repair past hurts, deepen emotional connection, and create shared meaning.
Emotionally Focused interventions help partners recognize negative interaction cycles, understand the emotional needs beneath them, and develop more secure ways of connecting.
Cognitive-behavioral techniques help couples notice how thoughts, emotions, and behaviors influence their interactions while building practical communication and problem-solving skills.
When past experiences affect the relationship, trauma-informed care emphasizes emotional safety, trust, collaboration, personal choice, and respect for each partner’s pace.