The number one thing I hear from couples looking for marriage counseling is that they need help with communication. Couples like you want better tools and strategies to handle the way things get shared inside of your relationship; to have an easier time sharing the challenging this so that they’re received well; to hear more about the good things that are happening, too.

At this moment in time, you might be frustrated because you've been wondering why your husband seems so distant and distracted lately? Maybe you're feeling like your wife has been giving you a harder time over the past few weeks? The problem isn't that you feel that way, it's that you don't know what to do with that information. It often feels like we've tried so many different ways to be better communicators but nothing seems to work well.

What I know, as a marriage counselor, is that there's plenty I can teach you. What I also know is that there's more going on below the surface that's leading you and your partner around in communication circles; sometimes this emotionally draining dance never seems to end. In fact, there are certain behaviors that couples demonstrate that would allow us to predict with 90+% accuracy who would end up divorced.

The great news is that those behaviors can be changed in time.  My passion is to be your neutral third party to help you both understand one another better and to use that information to improve your communication and to improve your marriage overall -- couples counseling in a nutshell. 

As a husband, a father and a therapist, I want you to be able to have the love that you've always dreamed of. I really believe that's possible for most couples. It will take some effort and some time but in my experience it pays dividends in the long run.

I really do want to become your partner in falling in love again and taking something that's already been good and making it great. I want you to enjoy your time together and to look back on the rough parts of your relationship as a strange period of time that made you stronger and better for one another. If you haven't given up on your relationship yet and really want the chance to have your marriage look, feel, and be the way you want it to, give yourselves a chance.

You deserve the marriage you've been waiting for. 

You may be a great fit to work with me if you've experienced any of the following:

• A desire to stay away from home and your partner to avoid arguing any more

• A desire to have an affair or if you've had an affair

• Feelings of deep frustration with how your partner treats you

• Feelings of hopelessness of your marriage ever improving

• Confusion about why you or your partner does things the way that they do

• Feeling like work comes before your relationship

• Feeling unheard by your partner

• Worried that there are secrets in your relationship