Couples & Relationship Therapy
Reconnect, heal, and love better. A psychodynamic and emotionally focused approach to the patterns keeping you stuck.
Something has shifted, and you're not sure how to find your way back to each other. Maybe you're having the same fight on repeat and neither of you feels heard. Maybe the distance has been building so slowly you're not sure when it started. Maybe trust has been broken and you don't know yet whether it can be repaired. Whatever brought you here, this is a space to look honestly at what's happening between you and to start moving toward something better.
What brings couples in
Couples come to me with all kinds of concerns: communication that keeps breaking down, intimacy that's faded, trust that's been damaged, conflict that turns destructive, and the slow drift that happens when life gets busy and connection gets pushed aside. Some couples are in crisis. Others just sense that something is off and want to address it before it gets worse.
I'll get to know you as a couple and help bring clarity to what you both need, whether that means finding your way back to each other or deciding to part with intention and care.
How we approach the work
I use Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), Gottman techniques, and a psychodynamic lens, drawing on whatever combination fits where you are. The goal isn't to teach you communication scripts. It's to understand the cycle you're caught in, the pattern of pursuit and withdrawal or escalation and shutdown that leaves you both feeling alone, and to interrupt it at the level where it actually lives.
That means slowing down. Looking at what's underneath the surface argument: the fear, the longing, the unmet need that's harder to say out loud. Most couples are fighting about something real. They just haven't found the language for it yet.
What to expect
Sessions are for both of you, together. We'll spend time understanding each of your inner worlds as well as the dynamic between you. Some of the work will feel like relief. Some of it will be uncomfortable. Both are signs that something real is happening.
Couples therapy tends to move faster than individual therapy when both people are engaged. You don't need to be on the same page about everything to start. You just need to be willing to show up.
Who this is for
Couples who are stuck in the same arguments and want a way out. Couples who have grown distant and want to close the gap. Couples navigating betrayal, major transitions, or a loss of shared meaning. Couples who are generally doing okay and want to invest in a stronger foundation before things get harder.
I see couples in Issaquah, Sammamish, North Bend, Snoqualmie, and across the Eastside. Telehealth is available throughout Washington. The free 15-minute call is a good place to start.
Hi, I'm Julie.
I've spent over nine years doing this work, and my love for it has only grown. What most of us are searching for, beneath the anxiety and the conflict and the numbness, is connection. To ourselves, to the people we love, to something that actually feels true.
I bring my full self into the room. I'm direct when that helps, and I know how to be quiet when that's what matters. I'm not here to fix you. You're not broken. I'm here to help you see yourself more clearly and trust what you find.
I live in North Bend and practice in Issaquah. I show up in this community the same way I show up in the room with you. Present, honest, and all in.
MA, Marriage & Family Therapy · Hope International University
BA, Psychology · Vanguard University
Trained in: Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), Gottman Method, Psychodynamic Therapy, Attachment Theory
You've been thinking about this long enough.
Schedule a free 15-minute call. Share what's bringing you in, ask whatever you want to ask, and see if it feels like a good fit.