Couples Therapy That Really Works!
Therapy for Smart People Who’ve Lost Their Way and Want the Passion Back!
Couples Therapy Intensive Retreats in Los Angeles and the San Francisco Bay Area
You wake up with that feeling again—The Argument Hangover.
Resentment. Anger. Hopelessness.
You wonder, “Is this my life now?” Will we never have the passion and connection we felt at the beginning?
You try not to think about it. You work hard, play hard, and find your happiness somewhere else. You sometimes do things together, but rarely connect. And then there are the arguments. Or the shut down. You never feel as lonely as you sometimes feel in your own home.
You miss the passion, the tenderness, the sex. You can hardly remember that girl whose eyes lit up every time she saw you across a crowded room, or that guy who showed up at your door with the grocery-store flowers and the big grin on his face.
You tried—you read books; you even did some couples therapy for a while, and it all helped. For a while. The books gave you some ideas, and the couples therapy gave you a safe place to talk about tough issues without yelling or shutting down, but now things are back to the way they were. It’s hard to do reflective listening when your partner is blaming you for everything that is going wrong.
Your friends tell you this is just the way it is. People drift apart. Resentments build, and love dies. Someone suggests couples therapy, and you say, “we’ve already tried that, and it didn’t do much”. Why would you want to try again, to spend the money, and the time, and the energy?
My name is Amy, and I want to be your LAST couples therapist.
I have helped hundreds of people build healthy relationships, and my clients will tell you, “Couples therapy works!”
I have years of experience and specialty training in couples therapy; I am not just winging it! I have studied the theories and models of the masters, and I am a Gottman Level One therapist and also extensively trained in The Developmental Model of Couples Therapy. The therapy I do is based on years of scientifically-based research and uses techniques that are proven to help couples repair their relationships and move into greater and deeper love and connection. When you do therapy with me you will
Use techniques based on neuroscience research to calm down emotional tension so that you are able to express yourselves clearly and listen thoroughly—even when you are not in the safety of the therapy session and are trying to navigate arguments (cough, discussions) in your own home
Process past hurts and disillusionments that keep you from moving forward as a couple.
Have tools to discuss the kinds of issues that you will never actually agree on—because, let’s face it, so many things in life don’t lend themselves to compromise. You can’t have half a baby, or spend Thanksgiving with family in Boston and Los Angeles this year. If one of you wants to live in California, and one of you wants to live in New York, neither of you wants to live in Iowa!
Learn how to ask for and get your needs met even when you and your partner have different love languages, biorhythms, or cultural backgrounds.
And, most importantly, learn how to love yourselves and each other in all your messy imperfection. THIS is the real magic of couples therapy, and I am honored to see it happen again and again as couples heal from their pasts and build amazing new lives together.
Is a Couples Intensive Therapy Retreat Right For Us?
A Therapy Intensive is right for you if you would rather get all the tools up front so that you can spend the following months practicing your new and better relationship, rather than spending one to two hours each week dissecting the latest argument. You will leave the weekend with a binder of tools to guide you while you practice on your own, and we will discuss whether or not you would like to have regular follow-up sessions to support you in practicing your new skills.
Contact me for a free video consultation
If you are curious to learn more about how online couples therapy or an intensive couples retreat in Los Angeles or Santa Cruz can reboot your relationship and change your life, give me a call at 310-699-6993, or email me here. We will set up a time to all meet together to determine if this is a good fit for us. If I am not the right person, I’ll do my best to get you to someone else who can help. I look forward to talking with you soon!
In-person Couples Therapy Retreats in Silicon Beach & Silicon Valley
My comfortable office is located in Marina del Rey, walking distance to the beach, the Venice Pier, and all the shops and restaurants on Abbott Kinney Blvd.
My courtyard office in the San Francisco Bay Area is located in Palo Alto, halfway between the hills of San Francisco and the busy boardwalk in Santa Cruz.
If you are coming from out of the area for your couples retreat, you can choose to stay either at the sunny beaches of southern California, in the bustling city of San Francisco, in the beautiful redwood forest just south of Silicon Valley, or in the famous surfing town of Santa Cruz.