Online Relationship Therapy & Communication Counseling

The most painful conflicts are rarely with strangers; they are with the people closest to you. And the most frustrating relational patterns are the ones that seem to repeat from relationship to relationship, no matter who the other person is. If you find it impossible to ask for what you need without minimizing it, constantly absorb everyone else's emotions while neglecting your own, or feel chronically unseen even by the people who love you, this collaborative work is designed for you.

These painful patterns usually trace back to early attachment experiences and what you learned, often when you were very young, about whether your vulnerability and needs were safe to express. Modern survival coping mechanisms like people-pleasing, chronic conflict avoidance, over-functioning, and difficulty trusting are not character flaws; they are adaptive strategies that once kept you safe, but are now keeping you stuck.

As a Columbia-trained psychologist, my treatment integrates Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) principles for attachment healing, CBT-based assertiveness and communication training, and DBT Interpersonal Effectiveness skills. Together, these evidence-based frameworks build your concrete capacity to identify what you need, express it clearly, set firm boundaries without guilt, repair relationship ruptures honestly, and relate to others from a place of secure confidence rather than fear, anxiety, or protective habit.

Healthy, resilient communication consists of learnable psychological skills, not fixed personality traits. With intentional practice, secure, direct, and authentic relating can become your default way of moving through the world rather than the rare exception. Sessions are held securely online for clients online across 40+ states, which also makes it easier to do this work consistently, without a commute, from wherever feels most comfortable to you.