Couples counseling may be helpful if you and your partner feel disconnected, stuck in painful patterns, or are seeking deeper emotional closeness and understanding.


In Couples Therapy You Can:

• Restore trust and emotional connection
• Repair relationship wounds and rebuild friendship
• Heal past relationship trauma
• Turn misunderstandings into opportunities for connection
• Replace negative interaction cycles with positive interaction cycles
• Learn healthy communication and negotiation strategies
• Re-ignite joy, love, and intimacy
• Create lasting relationship security

Couples therapy focuses on understanding the emotional bonds that shape your relationship. Through this work, partners learn to recognize unhelpful patterns, express underlying needs, and respond to one another with greater empathy and emotional responsiveness.

The goal is not to assign blame, but to strengthen connection, rebuild trust, and create a secure emotional foundation where both partners feel safe and valued.

Dr. Gardin’s approach to individual therapy is relational, compassionate, and evidence-based. Sessions are collaborative and grounded in respect, curiosity, and emotional safety. Rather than offering quick solutions, the work focuses on increasing awareness, understanding patterns, and creating lasting internal change.

This process allows you to take risks without fear, express your needs more clearly, and move through life with greater confidence and self-trust.

If you and your partner are considering couples counseling, the first step is simply reaching out. A consultation provides space to ask questions, explore your goals, and determine whether this approach feels right for both of you.

You do not need to be in crisis to begin — just open to growth and reconnection.