Creating a stronger friendship that leads to emotional and physical intimacy with your partner is the building block for relationship health.

I can help you to:

Learn to identify and express emotions, improving your emotional literacy and comfort so you can connect with your partner emotionally and physically.

Understand your attachment style, especially “avoidant” attachment and how it may be negatively impacting your relationship.

Overcome the stigma of expressing insecurity, fear, or sadness because it is associated with weakness.

Become comfortable opening up about past experiences that may have been traumatic, stigmatizing, or shameful.

Learn the ways you have unknowingly sabotaged getting your needs met by turning away from your partner or family towards digital devices such as your phone, the tv, or computer, substances like alcohol or marijuana, or hobbies and sports.

Learn how to communicate your needs in a way your partner can hear you and respond positively.

Understand how your partner likes to be romanced and create more opportunities for intimacy.

Learn how to recognize the shame talk that makes you feel inadequate, and replace it with confidence and clarity.

Understand how negative identities and trying to manage perception around being “manly” can contribute to hostility or isolating behaviors that cause disconnection from coworkers or partners.

Engage with vulnerability in a safe non-judgmental therapeutic relationship.

Issues of job stress, parenting or partnering demands, and sexual issues are just a few areas that require awareness and sensitivity to stigma and gender norms that create conflicting messages and competing roles for men.

Society sends conflicting messages to men about what it means to be “manly” or powerful. I can help you define how you want to show up and live out your values.