Who do you supervise?

I provide clinical supervision for LPC and LPCC candidates who are looking for more than simply meeting licensure requirements. I enjoy working with therapists who are curious, reflective, open to feedback, and committed to developing their own authentic clinical voice.

What is your supervision style?

I see supervision as mentorship first. Together we'll strengthen your case conceptualization, clinical confidence, therapeutic presence, and decision-making while helping you integrate theory with your own lived experience and personality as a therapist.

What is The Relationship Practice?

The Relationship Practice is a structured six-month experience for couples who are ready to move beyond recurring conflict and create meaningful, lasting change. Rather than relying solely on what happens during our sessions, the program integrates therapy, guided reflection, and intentional practice between meetings so that new ways of relating become part of everyday life.

How is this different from traditional couples therapy?

Traditional couples therapy often focuses on resolving the issues that arise from week to week. The Relationship Practice takes a broader approach by helping each partner understand the deeper patterns they bring into the relationship and intentionally practice new ways of relating over time. The goal is not simply to solve today's problem, but to create lasting change in how you relate to yourselves and one another.

Who is this program designed for?

This program is designed for couples who are willing to examine themselves with honesty and curiosity, take responsibility for their own contributions to the relationship, and engage in meaningful reflection between sessions. You don't need to have everything figured out, but both partners should be open to growth and willing to practice something different.

How much work is expected between sessions?

Meaningful change doesn't happen only during our time together. Most couples spend one to three hours each week engaged in reflective practices, conversations, and exercises designed to help bring what we discuss in session into everyday life. The work between sessions is an essential part of the program.

How do we get started?

Each partner begins by completing a brief application independently. If it appears that The Relationship Practice is a good fit for your goals, we'll schedule an initial consultation to learn more about your relationship, answer your remaining questions, and decide together whether this is the right next step.

The Relationship Practice

A Six-Month Relationship Program for Couples Ready to Grow

12 private 90-minute sessions | Meeting every other week

Your relationship is not simply a problem to solve.

It is one of the places where you encounter yourself most deeply.

Intimate relationships bring us face-to-face with our histories and adaptations, our longings and fears, our capacity for closeness and our instinct to protect ourselves from it. They reveal where we are free and where we remain caught in old patterns. And they confront us with the reality that the person we love is genuinely other—with their own inner world, needs, limitations, history, and path of development.

The Relationship Practice is the way I work with couples.

This is a structured six-month developmental series for couples who want to use their relationship as a place of personal and relational growth.

It is not open-ended couples therapy. Each of our 12 sessions has a specific developmental theme. I introduce ideas and frameworks drawn from adult development, attachment, family systems, depth psychology, contemplative practice, somatic awareness, and Integral theory. You each come prepared to explore the theme through your own lived experience—your thoughts, feelings, history, patterns, reactions, and relationship with yourself and one another.

Between sessions, you carry the work into your actual life through practices, observations, reflections, conversations, and experiments.

We meet every other week because this work takes time.

The two weeks between sessions are not an interruption in the process. They are part of the process. This is where you notice yourselves in real time, encounter familiar patterns, experiment with new ways of being, and discover what the ideas we explore together actually mean in the life you share.

The work begins with you

I am not interested in helping you become better at explaining why your partner is the problem.

I will not serve as a referee, determine who is right, carry messages between you, or become an ally in one person's effort to change the other.

Instead, I will ask each of you to consider:

Who am I in this relationship?
How did I become who I am?
What happens inside me when I feel hurt, afraid, disappointed, unseen, controlled, abandoned, or misunderstood?
What do I do to protect myself?
What do I expect my partner to provide for me?
How do I participate in creating the relationship we have?
What might my own life and development be asking of me now?

This does not mean that every relationship problem is equally created by both people. It does not mean explaining away harmful behavior, ignoring genuine incompatibility, or taking responsibility for someone else's choices.

It means becoming willing to see clearly—both yourself and the person beside you.

A relationship can become a place of development

Many of the patterns we bring into our adult relationships began as intelligent adaptations. We learned how to belong. How to maintain connection. How to avoid conflict or survive it. How to become useful, invisible, independent, pleasing, strong, needed, successful, undemanding, or in control. These ways of being may have once protected us. But an adaptation that once protected us can eventually limit us.

Adult development asks us to examine what we inherited, what we learned, what we adapted to, and what we now want to choose consciously.

It asks us to develop the capacity to remain connected to ourselves while in relationship with another person. To tolerate difference without automatically experiencing it as abandonment or threat. To hear something difficult without immediately defending ourselves. To speak honestly without using honesty as a weapon. To experience disappointment without automatically turning our partner into the villain.

And it asks us to confront a difficult reality: our partner is not here to complete us, heal every wound from our past, confirm our worth, regulate every difficult emotion, or become the person we believe they should be. They are another human being.

To love someone deeply is, in part, to encounter the reality of their otherness—to see them more clearly, beyond our projections, expectations, fears, fantasies, and demands. This does not mean accepting everything. Growth includes developing boundaries, recognizing incompatibility, naming harm, telling difficult truths, and sometimes acknowledging that a relationship may need to change or end.

The six-month journey

Over the course of our work, we move through a developmental progression:

See clearly → Understand deeply → Take responsibility → Develop capacity → Encounter the other → Choose consciously

1. The Relationship You Have Created
Understanding the relational system you have created together and how each person participates in sustaining recurring patterns.

2. How You Became Who You Are
Exploring what you learned about love, belonging, safety, emotion, conflict, and being yourself before you ever met your partner.

3. The Self You Bring Into Relationship
Recognizing who you become when intimacy activates your deepest fears, longings, and protective strategies.

4. Growing Up in Relationship
Exploring where life may be asking you to become more capable, differentiated, self-aware, and responsible for yourself.

5. What You Want From Your Partner
Examining needs, desires, expectations, attachment longings, disappointments, and the things we consciously or unconsciously ask another person to provide.

6. Conflict as Information
Becoming curious about what recurring conflicts may reveal about attachment, values, difference, history, power, fear, and developmental edges.

7. Staying Yourself While Staying Connected
Learning to remain connected to yourself while someone you love thinks, feels, wants, or chooses something different.

8. Projection and the Shadow
Exploring what your strongest reactions to your partner may reveal about both your partner and yourself.

9. Speaking the Truth and Hearing the Truth

Developing the capacity for honest self-revelation and for hearing another person's reality without immediately defending, fixing, correcting, or retaliating.

10. Love, Intimacy, and Otherness

Encountering the person who is actually here rather than only the person you hoped, expected, or needed them to become.

11. The Relationship You Are Choosing Now

Considering not only the relationship you want, but the relationship you are genuinely willing to participate in creating.

12. Continuing Without Me

Integrating what you have learned and creating a framework for continuing to grow when there is no therapist in the room.

This work asks something of you

You do not need to arrive with exceptional self-awareness.

You do not need to know how to communicate perfectly. You do not need to agree with one another about everything. And you do not need to have your relationship figured out.

But you do need to be willing to participate.

To be curious. To reflect. To speak honestly. To listen. To experiment. To tolerate some discomfort. To examine yourself as readily as you examine your partner.

And to consider the possibility that the relationship you want may ask something of you that you have not yet learned how to give.

This work may be a good fit if you are willing to ask not only:

How does my partner need to change?

But also:

Who am I becoming?
How do I want to show up here?
What is mine to see, grieve, learn, practice, or change?

What this work is not

This is not a place to repeatedly vent about your partner while remaining unwilling to examine yourself.

It is not a place to prove that you are right, recruit a therapist to your side, use me to deliver messages you are unwilling to communicate directly, or appease your partner without meaningfully engaging in the work. And it is not a promise that your relationship will continue.

I do not define a successful relationship solely by whether two people remain together. Sometimes growth allows a relationship to become deeper, freer, more intimate, and more alive. Sometimes it reveals truths that have long been avoided. Sometimes two people discover that they want to continue choosing one another differently. Sometimes greater clarity leads elsewhere.

The purpose of this work is not to determine that outcome for you. It is to help create the conditions in which you can see yourselves and one another more clearly and make increasingly conscious choices about how you want to live and love.

My role

I am a therapist, teacher, guide, and elder in the room.

I bring ideas, questions, observations, psychological frameworks, and practices to our work. I help you notice patterns you may not yet be able to see. I will sometimes ask difficult questions.

I will invite each of you to consider not only what your partner is doing, but what is happening within you and what your own life and development may be asking of you. I will take you seriously as adults capable of reflection, choice, responsibility, and change.

The aim is not perfection. It is greater consciousness. Greater freedom. Greater capacity for intimacy and difference. Greater responsibility for the life you are creating. And, perhaps most importantly, a relationship with yourself and with another person that is increasingly chosen rather than unconsciously repeated.

The commitment

The Relationship Practice includes 12 private 90-minute sessions, meeting every other week over approximately six months.

Total investment: $3,600 per couple

Payment may be made in full or in three monthly installments of $1,200.

All 12 sessions are scheduled in advance, and couples commit to the complete series at the outset. Because your appointments are reserved specifically for you over the course of six months, payment is nonrefundable, including in the event of early withdrawal from the series.

Continuity is an important part of this work. Couples may reschedule up to two sessions during the six-month series, subject to availability. Additional missed or cancelled sessions are forfeited and cannot be refunded or rescheduled. Any session I need to cancel will, of course, be rescheduled and will not count toward your two rescheduling opportunities.

The Relationship Practice is designed for both partners to participate together. If one person is unable to attend a scheduled session, the session will generally need to be rescheduled or forfeited rather than converted into an individual therapy session.

This is a significant commitment of time, energy, attention, and resources. I ask couples to make that commitment intentionally.

Between sessions, each person engages with practices, observations, reflections, conversations, or experiments connected to the theme we are exploring. Before each session, you will also be invited to share a brief written reflection on what you noticed, what challenged or surprised you, and what you are bringing into our next conversation.

Events and conflicts from your life together are welcome in the room when they help illuminate the work we are doing. We will not necessarily abandon the developmental arc of the series to resolve the latest conflict.

The relationship itself is the practice.

The work happens in the room—and in the life you create between our conversations.

Ready to explore whether this is right for you?

Because The Relationship Practice asks for a meaningful commitment from all of us, I begin with a brief application process. Each partner completes a short application separately. You do not need to agree with one another, have the same goals, or already know how to talk about your relationship perfectly.

I am not looking for the right answers. I am looking for a willingness to reflect honestly on yourself, your relationship, and what you may be ready to explore.

Once I have received both applications, I will review them. If The Relationship Practice appears potentially appropriate for your needs, we will schedule a brief consultation together to meet, talk about the series, and determine whether the fit feels right for all of us.

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