Do you long for the days when loving one another was easy?

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Remember texting all day, talking into the late hours, smiling and laughing just because, and enjoying each other's company. It was the two of you against the world. You found your life partner, your soul mate, THE ONE.

But now things are different and those days are a VERY distant memory.

Animosity and resentment have set in, arguments are in full bloom, and you hardly even recognize the person you are with.

It’s frustrating when you and your partner are stuck in an unhealthy pattern that leaves you feeling unseen, unheard, and unloved.  As a result, both of you go into “protection modes” leading to either defending yourself, shutting down, or completely avoiding one another—or all of the above!  

If you’re longing for the days of love, passion, and joy, we can help.

When we love our partner well, we offer a blueprint for a loving relationship to our children and their partners.
— Sue Johnson (Founder of EFT)

Couples therapy creates a safe place to really explore those patterns that make it difficult to feel safe, loved, and connected.  By bringing light to each of your individual needs, underlying emotions, beliefs, and triggers, you can broaden your understanding and invite more compassion AND passion into your relationship.

Couples therapy involves exploring individual patterns and beliefs, personal attachment styles, as well as identifying your communication style and patterns as a couple.

 
 

How Somatic therapy Can Help Couples

Somatic psychotherapy can deeply guide you and your partner into the specific details and nuances that make communication difficult. Our therapists bring mindfulness and other techniques as a way of exploring and bring a deeper awareness as to what may be getting in the way of having the relationship you and your partner truly desire. 

Couples therapy Can Benefit You and Your Partner by:

  1. Healing and rebuilding trust after an affair or infidelity

  2. Improving communication to deepen understanding and compassion

  3. Creating a more fulfilling and passionate relationship

  4. Strengthening intimacy and connection

  5. Working through separation or divorce

  6. Managing fertility challenges

  7. Helping new parents looking for support

  8. Offsetting potential future challenges with premarital counseling

    interested in how your attachment style
    affects your relationships?

Read our attachment blog series below!

Contact us today if you are having difficulty communicating your individual needs.

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**All psychotherapy services are provided by
Life by Design Therapy, a holistic and somatic psychotherapy center founded by Melody Wright, LMFT. Life by Design Therapy welcomes the diversity of all ethnic backgrounds, religious beliefs, family configurations, sexual orientations, and gender identities.