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Do you want to enhance your relationship?

Are you struggling to feel understood in your relationship? 

Do you want to create a deeper emotional connection with your partner? 

Are you finding your relationship repeating the same conflict cycles? 

Does it feel hard or “scary” to be vulnerable with your partner?

Do you want to break free from insecurities and fears and truly trust your partner?

As a couple, you can reach a point at any stage in your relationship where you are feeling disconnected from each other, dissastified in relationship, or “stuck”. Sometimes, you are able to work through this on your own in order to get back to a place of connection, and other times, the sense of divide widens, despite your best efforts.

“When you feel a connection, a gut connection, a heart connection, it is a very special thing.”

-Alfred Woodard-

You might notice that when you feel more dissatisfaction in relationship, your interactions can become more negative and what previously might not have impacted you in interactions with each other might now create frustration, anxiety, withdrawal, or anger. You might feel stuck and helpless to change this cycle.  We start with exploring the pattern or negative interactional cycle that was created over time and prevents you from feeling more connected as a couple. We talk about vulnerable subjects and explore what has come between you as a couple while trying to keep blame from taking over the conversation. We also explore times where you have felt more connected as a couple and explore what was happening differently at that time. Then, we work to start to “catch” this negative interactional pattern that creates the disconnection and work to deepen your understanding and awareness of your experiences in this pattern as well as your partner’s experiences in this pattern. As you begin to understand your responses in moments of distress as well as your partner’s, you might start to notice that now in moments of distress, you begin to “soften” with each other. You might start to find it easier to have the “hard conversations” with each other and feel more willing to be vulnerable with each other. As you continue through this process, we will continue to work to build connection and shift perspective so that you and your partner feel more important to the other and more secure in your relationship, healing attachment injuires that have occurred in the relationship. What couples can find through this process is that when connection and relationship security are present, working through conflict or challenging times can feel easier. 

I work with couples from an Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) approach to begin to understand the "dance" they are engaging in that has created disconnection, learn to understand themselves and their partner's experience in a new way, and be able to respond differently to create new ways of communicating and connecting.

Megan also works with same-sex and heterosexual couples who are dating and/or comitted to long-term partnership or marriage and want to strengthen the foundation of their relationship and want to gain awareness and skills to maintain a connected relationship over time.

Areas Megan can help with:

• Affair or infidelity recovery
• Sobriety and relationship recovery from addiction
• Sexual Intimacy
• Anxiety in Relationship
• Emotional Intimacy and Connection
• Trust Issues in Relationship
• Trauma and Attachment Insecurities
• Eating Disorder Recovery and Relationship Support
• Breaking “escalation and withdrawal” conflict cycles
• Growing and strengthening understanding of relationship needs and dynamic
• Pre-marital counseling, marital counseling, relationship therapy, LGBTQIA+ Affirming