Welcome to my site. I am a counselor in Cincinnati Ohio. I specialize in marriage counseling. I believe to make change, you will need to be intentional in how you construct change.  I can help you do this. I help couples with a variety of concerns including some of the following:

• How to create more healthy and intimate communication.
• How to establish appropriate couple boundaries with others outside the relationship.
• Dealing with the impact of infidelity or addressing an affair.
• Developing strategies to reduce conflict.
• Creating or recreating intimacy in your relationship.
• Stopping criticism and blame.
• Developing relationship skills for young couples (and some older couples too!).
• Identifying and expressing feelings appropriately.
• Issues with pornography.

I understand that choosing a therapist to help with your marriage is a hard task; for most people, at minimum, it is uncomfortable because the difficulties in your marriage have left you highly emotional, physically drained, and you may even be ambivalent about whether or not to go through the work of therapy because the things you have tried have had limited success or failed. That call to a therapist may even feel like a last resort. These things are common for people seeking marriage or couples therapy.

I have worked with young couples who need some structured guidance in their new marriage, worked with couples who have been married for years and need help creating new ways to regain love and affection, high conflict couples who respond in an instant to a perceived hurt by their partner and couples who were trying to rebuild their marriage after an affair.

I utilize a very positive and optimistic approach to therapy. My belief is that many, if not most marriages can be restored to good health even when the spouses are unhappy. I first explore with you how you and your spouse might preserve the marriage and find a way to a better relationship. I offer an assessment process that helps you assess the strengths and challenges in the relationship, which ultimately helps you understand your shared and individual goals and how best to proceed in therapy. Skill strengthening and strategies to deal with conflict are important parts to the process as well. Therapy session last between 1-1.5 hours, which is not typical of counseling sessions but necessary at times for couple or marriage counseling.

I encourage you to call so that we can sort through the many possibilities for re-creating your marriage and to consider if I am the correct therapist for you.