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Couples Therapy in Marlton, NJ

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Does it feel like you and your partner love each other but something just isn’t clicking anymore?

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Maybe you and your partner:

  • Try to talk things out, but one person shuts down  and the other gets louder.

  • React in ways neither of you fully understands.

  • Keep fighting about the same things over and over again.

  • Struggle with vulnerability, no matter how hard you try.

  • Have opposite needs from each other, which creates more distance.

Closeness, support, and teamwork feel out of reach.

It’s become a challenge to stay present during arguments, conversations, and even in the quieter moments. You both reflect on how your relationship once was; perhaps before, the connection felt easy, intimate, and joyful. Yet, you and your partner don’t know how it got this way.

It’s not just affecting your relationship. You’re also noticing:

  • It’s draining your emotional energy, making it hard to support loved ones.

  • You are pulling away during physical intimacy…and you both notice.

  • It’s disrupting your work performance, taking away the clarity you need to be productive.  

  • You are withdrawing from social plans because isolating feels safer than connecting. 

As much as you both care about each other, the stress at home is wearing you down: mood, energy, and sense of self. You feel disconnected from each other and maybe even from yourself. Both of you are unsure how to get back to the trust and safety you once felt

Couples therapy can help you turn painful patterns into moments of healing.

Imagine your relationship changing for the better when you show up for yourself and for each other:

  • Recognize what parts of you are showing up in conflict and how they connect to past wounds.

  • Learn and witness your partner’s parts with more compassion and understanding.

  • Speak for your parts rather than from them, as well as be a resource for your partner (co-regulation).

  • Communicate with courage, understand your inner world, and feel secure within yourself and your partner.

I believe in the power of healing both together and individually.

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As a couples therapist, I use Intimacy from the Inside Out (IFIO), an approach rooted in Internal Family Systems (IFS). IFIO helps couples move from reactivity to understanding and from conflict to connection. This work goes beyond just learning new skills. You’ll explore the internal patterns driving your responses, so you can unburden past pain, reconnect with your Self, and meet each other with presence and care. By communicating with courage, meeting your own and each other’s needs, and witnessing one another’s transformation, trust becomes possible.  

Helping couples reconnect is deeply meaningful to me. I believe repair to rupture is possible not just between partners, but within each individual. You and your partner deserve intimacy that feels safer, steadier, and sustainable.

Counseling for relationships can help you…

 

  • Slow down reactive cycles so you can understand what’s really happening underneath.

  • Recognize the parts of you that show up in conflict and why they do.

  • Communicate with courage and clarity, even when it feels hard. 

  • Listen with more openness to your partner’s experience.

  • Attune to one another’s needs and express your own without pulling away or shutting down.

Intimacy from the Inside Out (IFIO)

This couples therapy modality helps each partner bring healing inside, as individuals, so that it becomes easier to stay present and compassionate with one another. When each partner un-burdens from their own wounds, they can return to the relationship from a more grounded, centered place. For more information on IFIO, please visit the IFIO website.

It’s possible to feel close again with less fear, more trust , and a deeper sense of safety between you.

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Couples Counseling FAQs

 

  • Couples therapy can absolutely help, especially when you and your partner come into session with an open mind. You’ll be learning about parts of you that show up conflicts, parts of your partner, etc. and although it can be challenging to listen to your partner’s experience, I am there as a resource for the both of you.

  • Expect to slow down. As a couples therapist, I try to really understand what is going on within the both of you as individuals and also interpersonally. We will also aim to do things differently from what you’re used to at home. This is a brave space for all parts of you, even the tender ones. 

  • It depends on the couple. In our work together, it isn’t about symptom reduction but more about the long-lasting shifts that you will encounter. That can take patience, intention, and practice. It may look like several weeks for you, months, or years - it depends on how deep the work needs to go.

More questions? Check out my FAQs page.