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PACT (Psychobiological Approach to Couple Therapy) is a neuroscience-informed, attachment-based approach to couples therapy that focuses on helping partners build safety, trust, and secure functioning in their relationship. Rather than spending months analyzing problems in isolation, PACT works in the here and now, helping couples understand what happens between them in moments of stress, conflict, or emotional disconnection.

PACT is grounded in attachment theory, developmental neuroscience, and arousal regulation. It recognizes that our nervous systems, not just our thoughts, shape how we react to our partner. In therapy, we slow these moments down and explore how early attachment patterns, protective strategies, and survival responses show up in the relationship today. This allows couples to move out of reactive cycles and into more intentional, collaborative ways of relating.

In PACT sessions, partners work together in real time to strengthen their ability to:

• Stay emotionally present during conflict

• Read and respond to each other’s cues

• Repair ruptures quickly and effectively

• Create a sense of mutual safety and reliability

Rather than focusing on blame or “who’s right,” PACT emphasizes mutual responsibility, shared leadership, and secure attachment. Couples learn how to support each other’s nervous systems, communicate more clearly, and approach challenges as a team.

PACT is especially helpful for couples experiencing high conflict, emotional shutdown, trust injuries, or recurring arguments that feel stuck. It is also well-suited for couples who want deeper intimacy, stronger emotional bonds, and a more resilient relationship foundation.

As a therapist, I integrate PACT with sex therapy, depth psychology, and relational repair work to support couples in building relationships that feel safe, connected, alive, and sustainable.

Who PACT Is a Good Fit For

PACT is a good fit for couples who want to move beyond surface-level communication skills and understand what is really happening beneath their patterns of conflict or disconnection. This approach is especially helpful for couples who:

• Feel stuck in recurring arguments that escalate quickly or never feel fully resolved

• Experience cycles of emotional pursuit and withdrawal, shutdown, or defensiveness

• Struggle with trust, betrayal, or attachment injuries and want support repairing safety

• Find that stress, parenting, work, or life transitions are impacting their connection

• Want to strengthen emotional intimacy, secure attachment, and relational resilience

• Are motivated to take shared responsibility for the health of their relationship

• Appreciate a structured, experiential approach that works in real time during sessions

PACT is well suited for couples who are willing to look at how their nervous systems, attachment histories, and protective strategies influence the relationship, without blame or shame. It is particularly effective for couples who want practical tools and deeper insight into how to show up for each other more consistently and securely.

Jungian and depth-oriented therapy is a reflective, meaning-centered approach to healing that looks beyond surface symptoms to understand the deeper forces shaping your inner world and relationships. Rooted in the work of Carl Jung, this modality invites curiosity about the unconscious patterns, emotional themes, and relational dynamics that influence how you love, desire, protect yourself, and connect with others.

Rather than focusing only on behavior change or problem-solving, depth therapy explores why certain patterns persist, especially those that repeat in relationships, intimacy, and self-esteem. Together, we may work with dreams, symbols, emotions, attachment histories, and parts of the self that have learned to stay hidden or protected. These elements often hold important information about unmet needs, old wounds, and unrealized potential.

Jungian therapy views symptoms not as problems to eliminate, but as meaningful signals from the psyche asking for attention, integration, and growth. Through this process, clients often develop greater self-understanding, emotional depth, and a more authentic relationship with themselves and others.

In couples and sex therapy work, depth psychology helps partners understand the unconscious roles, projections, and archetypal dynamics that can shape attraction, conflict, power, and intimacy—allowing for more compassion, responsibility, and conscious choice in the relationship.

Who Jungian & Depth Therapy Is a Good Fit For

Jungian and depth-oriented therapy may be a good fit for you if you:

• Feel stuck in recurring emotional or relational patterns and want to understand their deeper roots

• Are curious about dreams, symbolism, inner parts, or the unconscious

• Want therapy to feel reflective, exploratory, and meaning-focused rather than purely directive

• Experience relationship or intimacy struggles that feel emotionally charged, confusing, or repetitive

• Are navigating life transitions, identity shifts, or questions of purpose and meaning

• Value insight, self-awareness, and long-term personal growth

• Want to integrate emotional healing with self-acceptance, creativity, and authenticity

This approach is especially well-suited for clients and couples who are open to slowing down, turning inward, and exploring the deeper emotional and psychological layers of their experience, at a pace that feels supportive and grounded.

Solution-Focused Therapy is a collaborative, strengths-based approach that helps clients create meaningful change by focusing on what’s working, what’s possible, and what they want more of, rather than spending extensive time analyzing problems. This modality is grounded in the belief that people already possess the resources and resilience needed to move forward, even during difficult seasons.

In solution-focused work, therapy is practical, intentional, and future-oriented. Together, we clarify your goals, identify exceptions to the problem (moments when things go even a little better), and build on your existing strengths. Sessions emphasize small, realistic shifts that can lead to noticeable improvements in daily life, relationships, and emotional well-being.

Rather than asking “Why is this happening?” solution-focused therapy often asks, “What would be different if this were better?” and “What’s one small step that moves you closer to that?” This approach can feel empowering, efficient, and supportive, especially when clients want tools they can apply right away.

In couples and sex therapy, solution-focused work helps partners move out of blame and into collaboration by identifying shared goals, successful moments of connection, and concrete ways to strengthen intimacy, communication, and teamwork.

Who Solution-Focused Therapy Is a Good Fit For

Solution-Focused Therapy may be a good fit for you if you:

• Want therapy to be practical, structured, and goal-oriented

• Are looking for tools and strategies you can apply right away

• Feel ready to focus on change rather than revisiting past experiences in depth

• Appreciate a strengths-based, empowering approach

• Are navigating a specific challenge or transition and want forward momentum

• Prefer therapy that feels efficient and collaborative

This approach is especially helpful for clients and couples who feel motivated for change, want clarity around next steps, and benefit from focusing on progress, even when challenges are still present.

Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) is a deeply relational, attachment-based approach to couples therapy that helps partners create stronger emotional bonds, repair disconnection, and develop lasting relationship security. Developed by Sue Johnson, EFT is grounded in attachment theory and supported by decades of research on adult relationships.

EFT focuses on the emotional patterns that happen between partners, especially during moments of conflict, distance, or distress. Rather than seeing arguments as communication failures or personality flaws, EFT understands them as expressions of unmet attachment needs and nervous system responses to feeling unsafe, unseen, or alone.

In EFT sessions, we slow down reactive cycles and help partners identify the underlying emotions driving their interactions, such as fear of rejection, longing for closeness, or worry about not being enough. As these deeper emotions are understood and expressed in new ways, couples learn how to respond to each other with greater empathy, safety, and emotional availability.

The goal of EFT is not just better communication, but secure emotional connection. Couples develop the ability to turn toward each other during stress, repair ruptures more effectively, and experience their relationship as a safe and supportive base.

I integrate EFT with sex therapy and other relational modalities to support couples in strengthening emotional intimacy, trust, and connection—both inside and outside the bedroom.

Who Emotionally Focused Therapy Is a Good Fit For

Emotionally Focused Therapy may be a good fit for couples who:

• Feel stuck in recurring cycles of conflict, withdrawal, or emotional distance

• Experience intense arguments that escalate quickly or leave both partners feeling unheard

• Want to rebuild trust, safety, or closeness after relational injuries

• Struggle to express emotions or feel emotionally connected to one another

• Want deeper emotional intimacy, not just better communication skills

• Are open to exploring vulnerability, attachment needs, and emotional experience

EFT is especially effective for couples who want to feel more securely connected, understood, and emotionally bonded, and who are willing to slow down and look at what’s happening beneath the surface of their relationship patterns.

Internal Family Systems (IFS) Therapy is a compassionate, evidence-based approach that helps people understand and heal their inner world by recognizing that we all have different “parts” within us. Developed by Richard Schwartz, IFS is grounded in the belief that every part of us has a positive intention, even the parts that may feel reactive, protective, or stuck.

Rather than trying to eliminate symptoms or judge certain feelings as “bad,” IFS helps clients build a respectful relationship with their inner parts. Some parts work hard to protect us from pain, rejection, or vulnerability, while other parts may carry emotional wounds from past experiences. At the core of this system is the Self, a calm, compassionate, and wise presence that has the capacity to lead the internal system toward healing and balance.

In IFS therapy, we gently explore these parts with curiosity and care, allowing clients to understand why certain emotional reactions, behaviors, or relational patterns developed in the first place. As protective parts no longer have to work so hard, deeper healing becomes possible, often leading to increased self-trust, emotional regulation, and inner harmony.

In couples and sex therapy, IFS is especially powerful for helping partners recognize when “parts” are taking over during conflict or intimacy. This creates space for more empathy, responsibility, and connection, both with oneself and with one’s partner.

Who Internal Family Systems Therapy Is a Good Fit For

Internal Family Systems therapy may be a good fit for you if you:

• Feel internally conflicted or “at war” with parts of yourself

• Experience strong emotional reactions that feel hard to control or understand

• Want a non-judgmental, compassionate approach to healing

• Struggle with shame, self-criticism, anxiety, or emotional overwhelm

• Notice recurring patterns in relationships or intimacy that you want to change

• Are interested in deeper self-understanding and long-term emotional growth

• Want therapy that honors both emotional healing and inner wisdom

IFS is especially well-suited for individuals and couples who want to build a more trusting relationship with themselves, reduce internal reactivity, and approach healing with curiosity rather than force.

In sex therapy using an IFS lens, sexual concerns are never treated as something “wrong” with you or your relationship. Instead, we approach them with curiosity:

• What parts show up around sex or intimacy?

• What are they trying to protect you from?

• What do they need in order to soften or trust more?

This approach helps clients understand how experiences such as shame, trauma, performance pressure, attachment wounds, or past relational injuries can live in the nervous system and influence desire, arousal, boundaries, and pleasure. As protective parts feel understood rather than pushed away, deeper healing and more authentic intimacy become possible.

For couples, Sex Therapy with IFS helps partners recognize when “parts” are interacting rather than their grounded, connected selves. This creates more empathy, less blame, and greater emotional and sexual safety, allowing intimacy to feel collaborative rather than pressured or confusing.

Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) is an evidence-based approach that combines mindfulness practices with cognitive therapy to help people change their relationship to thoughts, emotions, and internal experiences. Originally developed by Zindel Segal, Mark Williams, and John Teasdale, MBCT was designed to reduce emotional reactivity and prevent relapse into cycles of anxiety, depression, and stress.

Rather than trying to eliminate difficult thoughts or feelings, MBCT helps clients notice them with greater awareness, curiosity, and compassion. Through mindfulness, clients learn to observe internal experiences without immediately reacting, believing, or getting swept up in them. This creates space for more choice, self-regulation, and emotional balance.

In therapy, MBCT supports clients in recognizing habitual mental patterns, such as rumination, self-criticism, or worry, and gently interrupting them before they escalate. Mindfulness practices help reconnect clients with the body and present-moment experience, strengthening the ability to stay grounded even when emotions are intense.

I integrate MBCT in a flexible, relational way, using mindfulness not as a performance or productivity tool, but as a means of building awareness, self-trust, and nervous system regulation. MBCT can be especially supportive when working with stress, anxiety, mood concerns, or relational reactivity.

Who Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy Is a Good Fit For

Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy may be a good fit for you if you:

• Feel caught in repetitive thought patterns such as worry, rumination, or self-criticism

• Experience anxiety, stress, or low mood that feels hard to interrupt

• Want to relate differently to your thoughts rather than fight or suppress them

• Are interested in mindfulness but want guidance and structure

• Notice strong emotional or physiological reactions and want more regulation

• Value practical tools that support long-term emotional resilience

• Want a gentle, non-judgmental approach to emotional awareness

MBCT is especially helpful for individuals who want to slow down, become more present, and respond to life with greater intention—rather than feeling driven by automatic thoughts or emotional habits.