The Father Wound in Love: How Our Relationship with Dad Shapes Our Intimate Bonds
In relationships, we often unconsciously look for partners to meet the unmet needs of childhood—to finally feel protected, chosen, approved of, or emotionally held.
But without awareness and healing, this search becomes a painful cycle of disappointment, frustration, and misunderstanding.
ADHD in Relationships: Why Couples Therapy Is a Game-Changer
ADHD and trauma can deeply impact your relationship. Explore how the Gottman Method, IFS therapy, and Inner Child healing can empower couples to reconnect, communicate, and heal old wounds together. Practical interventions and hope start here.
Couples Therapy for ADHD: Rebuilding Trust, Routines, and Respect
How Couples Therapy Helps ADHD-Impacted Relationships Heal
Is Couples Therapy Worth It? What You Need to Know Before Considering the Investment.
If you’re struggling with trust, communication, resentment, ADHD-related challenges, trauma wounds, or emotional disconnection, good couples therapy is absolutely worth it. It saves years of pain, builds emotional security, and teaches skills most of us were never taught growing up.
Parenting Self-Care During Challenging Times
Parenting is difficult. Parenting during these times is extremely difficult and parental burnout is at an all time high. Finding ways to release the parental stress inventory is essential for raising healthy secure humans, check out these 10 self-care tips for parents in 2025!
Infidelity & Ideology: When Betrayal Goes Beyond Affairs
Relationships are meant to change and many do over time. Some partners struggle with their partner’s preferred ideological or personal beliefs diverting from their own, allowing for interdependence verses codependency. This blog is designed to help you find common ground and friendship with these differences, so shared life meaning can still occur within these differences.
When Faith Becomes a Fault Line: Healing Religious Divides in Relationships
Faith and religious beliefs are deeply personal and often can cause friction within a couple’s relationship if not frequently discussed and re-examined, without judgement or control. Couples who can manage these differences with compassion and love have more success.
The Heart Behind the Armor
Couples who are protecting our country’s safety for a living sacrifice and struggle more than others for unique reasons. Let’s learn more how we can support our armed service members to better serve and protect us!
Can couples recover together?
As the majority of the population struggles with depression or anxiety, they look to avoid those feelings with behavioral, substance, and alcohol misuse. Can healing in a couple still occur? How do we do it well?
Toxic Trauma Bond or Narcissistic Abuse?
Toxic trauma bond or codependent? How do you know if its Narcissistic Abuse or you are in an unhealthy relationship? Can you get help if your partner is a narcissist?
How can Connecting through our Parts heal our relationships?
Dr. Richard Shwartz really came together to understand our psche’s in this modality. So did Alexander Milov in this beautiful representation of our inner child healing. Learning effective communication through understanding our parts;
Why can Romantic Love be so scary for some of us? Even Toxic?
Do you ever wonder if you are in a healthy relationship? Do you fear you might be in a toxic cycle with someone and could be confusing it for love? Learn more about the signs and symptoms of toxicity in a relationship due to insecure attachment!
What is Antisocial Personality Disorder (ASP)?
Antisocial personalities can be hard to understand, often making us more susceptible to their callousness. Many people all around us show signs of antisocial personality disorder, especially if they have show little to no empathy or consideration for others or society rules.
How to be More Effective with your goals?
Ever feel stuck in your goal setting? Feel like your just procrastinating or rationalizing why you aren’t doing the steps to accomplish the goal, this blog may be for you! Harnessing some of the information gleaned in The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey, I cover effective goal setting behaviors.
How to Maintain A Healthy Secure Love in 2025?
Maintaining and sustaining a healthy romantic love involves intentional effort and mutual commitment. Recent research and expert insights highlight several key strategies for couples aiming to nurture a long lasting secure relationship that fulfills trust, purpose and passion, as well as family connection and continuity of rituals for fun throughout life’s transitions.
These recommendations are based on qualitative research and meta-analysis from top relationship researchers and mentors in the field. Communication is always the answer, when its off go inward and connect authentically first with self, and then with others once regulated.
What is Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD)?
Narcissistic Personality Disorder aka NPD is a very challenging and difficult to treat condition, which is why it goes along with BPD individuals in couples counseling. Those impacted by NPD do not come to therapy on their own, typically they are encouraged and brought in by their partners. I treasure working with the symptomology in the couples counseling room as meaningful deep inner child work is working with a deeply insecure inner child. The ego is very sensitive for the NPD and understanding Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD) Through the Lens of a Couples Therapist can help shed some perspective on relationship components to be aware of.
Navigating the complexities of a romantic relationship is challenging under any circumstances, but when one or both partners exhibit traits of Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD), the challenges can feel insurmountable at times without outside support. As a couples therapist specializing in trauma and attachment wounds, I’ve witnessed how NPD can affect intimacy, trust, and communication in profound ways, however they are not to be forgotten because they can change through awareness and conscious changes. This blog aims to shed light on NPD from a relational perspective and offer insights for couples who are navigating these dynamics.