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Couples Coaching:
Rebuilding Safety, Connection, and Repair

An 8-week relational coaching program for couples ready to break patterns and reconnect.

8-Week Program

Relational Life Therapy Couples Coaching

This couples coaching program is for couples who love each other, but feel stuck.

Stuck in the same arguments.
Stuck in cycles of escalation and shutdown.
Stuck feeling emotionally distant, overwhelmed, or disconnected despite good intentions.

Rather than focusing on surface-level communication tools, this work helps couples understand why patterns keep repeating and how to shift them from the inside out, so the relationship can feel safer, steadier, and more connected.

This is not about fixing one partner or deciding who’s right.

It’s about learning how your nervous systems interact, how repair actually happens, and how to come back to each other when things get hard.

How I Work With Couples

My approach is relational, trauma-trained, and nervous-system informed.

We focus on emotional safety rather than blame, patterns rather than positions, and repair rather than winning. Sessions are direct, compassionate, and practical: We work with what’s actually happening between you, in real time.

Instead of endless processing, we practice new ways of responding so change shows up in your relationship, not just in insight.

This work is:

  • Relational: Because healing happens between people
  • Trauma-trained: We honor what each nervous system learned to survive
  • Embodied: We practice change, not just talk about it
  • Honest & direct: Clear feedback without shaming
  • Supportive over time: Because real change requires integration


I integrate Relational Life Therapy (RLT) principles, nervous-system regulation, breath-based practices, and family-of-origin awareness to help couples create lasting change.

What This Program Supports

Couples often seek coaching around:

  • Recurring conflict or communication breakdowns
  • Emotional distance or disconnection
  • Grief, loss, or shared trauma
  • Parenting stress and relational burnout
  • One partner escalating while the other shuts down
  • Feeling like you’re “over-talking” without resolution
  • Family-of-origin patterns impacting the relationship


This work helps couples move out of reactive cycles and back into connection, even during stress, conflict, or transition.

The 8-Week Couples Coaching Program

This program is designed to support real change over time, not just insight in a single session.

The program includes:

Weekly couples
coaching sessions

8 Weeks of 75-minute sessions

Weekly open
office hours

for accountability, questions, wins, and support

Weekly prompts and The Regulate and Repair Toolkit

A complete set of RLT-based scripts and frameworks to help you stop spiraling, repair quickly, and build emotional safety in real time.

I deeply believe couples need time, support, and space to embody what they’re learning. This structure allows couples to practice, integrate, and repair between sessions, rather than trying to do everything alone.

Outcomes Couples Often Experience

Couples who engage in this work often notice:

  • Less escalation, shutdown, and emotional distance
  • Clearer, calmer communication during hard conversations
  • Faster, cleaner repair after conflict
  • Greater emotional safety and trust
  • Deeper intimacy and attunement
  • A renewed sense of “we’re on the same team”


The goal is a relationship that feels stable, honest, and supportive, even when things are hard.

How to Get Started

Schedule a Consultation

Contact me to schedule an initial conversation. We’ll talk about what’s been happening in your relationship and whether this program feels like a good fit.

Determine Readiness

We discuss goals, timing, and whether both partners are ready to engage in this work, or whether beginning with one partner makes sense.

Begin The Program

Couples coaching sessions are relational, practical, and emotionally safe. We work with real moments, real patterns, and real repair.

Frequently Asked Questions

Breath as your medicine.

Embodying our truest selves.