About Couples Chat Therapy

At Couples Chat Therapy, we provide compassionate therapy for couples and individuals navigating the complexities of relationships. Whether you're seeking support with your partner or working solo to better understand yourself, your needs, and how you show up in relationships, you are in the right place.

Specializing in:

• Couples Therapy: Support for partners experiencing recurring conflict, communication breakdowns, and emotional disconnection, with a focus on rebuilding trust and strengthening secure connection.
   
• Blended Family & Step-Couple Counseling:  Support for couples navigating remarriage, stepfamily integration, co-parenting complexities, and the unique challenges faced by childless stepmothers. 

• Co-Parenting Support to collaborate and communicate shared parenting goals and integrate boundaries effectively post-separation

• Premarital Counseling:  Preparing couples for long-term partnership by exploring values, expectations, finances, communication patterns, and approaches to conflict before marriage. 

• Consensual Non-Monogamy (CNM) & Alternative Relationship Structures:   Support for individuals and partners navigating open relationships, polyamory, relationship agreements, and the emotional complexities that arise in non-traditional relationship systems.  
   
• Couples Therapy For One:   An approach designed for individuals who want to improve relationship patterns, gain clarity, and create meaningful change even when their partner is not ready to participate in therapy.
   

Therapeutic Approach

We integrate Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), Gottman Level 1, and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), along with a style that blends warmth, directness, and just the right amount of humor, making therapy feel real and accessible.

Tailored Care:  No two relationships are the same. Sessions are thoughtfully designed around your unique relationship patterns, goals, and circumstances, whether you are navigating communication breakdowns, betrayal, parenting stress, nontraditional relationship structures, or feeling emotionally disconnected. 

Flexible and Accessible Care

Couples Chat Therapy offers both in-person sessions in San Diego and HIPAA-compliant virtual therapy options for clients across California.   Whether you meet online or in person, you will receive thoughtful, expert care designed to support your relationship and fit your lifestyle. 

Affirming and Inclusive Care 

Couples Chat Therapy welcomes diverse relationship structures, identities, and expressions of intimacy. We provide affirming, inclusive therapy for individuals and partners, with a focus on supporting the health and stability of the relationship. 

Our work centers on helping partners navigate communication, conflict, intimacy, and trust while recognizing the broader personal and societal stressors that can impact relationships. Therapy is grounded in respect, cultural responsiveness, and a nonjudgmental approach so that each partner feels seen, heard, and valued.