Couples Counseling

Helping partners build stronger, healthier relationships through deeper understanding.

Every relationship faces challenges—whether it's about communication, emotional distance, or navigating life’s many transitions. At Shine Within, we offer couples counseling that’s compassionate, practical, and grounded in evidence-based tools that foster healing and deeper connection.

Whether you're dating, engaged, married, or somewhere in between, couples therapy can be a powerful way to grow closer, resolve lingering issues, and build a strong foundation for the future.

What We Offer

As a Certified Prepare/Enrich Facilitator, I use one of the most trusted relationship assessment tools available to help couples gain a clear understanding of their strengths and areas for growth. Together, we explore topics such as communication, conflict, emotional needs, family systems, intimacy, finances, and values.

I also incorporate the How We Love framework by Milan & Kay Yerkovich—a powerful attachment-based model that helps couples understand how their early life experiences influence their current relational patterns. By identifying your “love style,” you can begin to shift reactive dynamics and replace them with connection, compassion, and healthy communication.

Common Reasons Couples Seek Counseling:

  • Constant arguing or emotional disconnection

  • Rebuilding trust after betrayal or distance

  • Differences in parenting, finances, or priorities

  • Pre-marital preparation and clarity

  • Intimacy concerns—emotional or physical

  • Feeling more like roommates than partners

  • Navigating life transitions (new baby, career changes, loss)

  • Wanting to grow together spiritually or rediscover shared values

No matter your stage or story, couples counseling can help you create a stronger, more intentional relationship.

Our Approach: Structured, Supportive, and Insight-Driven

🔹 Prepare/Enrich

You'll begin with an in-depth online assessment that evaluates key areas of your relationship. This gives us a clear road map and helps guide meaningful conversation and growth in session.

🔹 Attachment-Focused Therapy

Using research from attachment theory, we explore each partner’s emotional wiring and how it impacts the relationship. Many couples find great relief in finally understanding the deeper “why” behind their recurring conflicts.

🔹 The How We Love Model

This model helps couples recognize their “core pattern”—the dance they get stuck in when stress or conflict arises. By understanding your love style, you can begin healing emotional wounds and creating a more secure, connected partnership.

🔹 Faith-Based Integration (Optional)

For couples who desire it, I offer a Christian, faith-informed perspective rooted in grace, restoration, and biblical principles. Whether it’s prayer, Scripture, or aligning your relationship with your shared faith values, I’m here to support that journey—without pressure and always with sensitivity.

If you're not seeking a faith-based approach, no worries—our work together will still be deeply respectful, evidence-based, and tailored to your unique goals and values.

What to Expect in Couples Therapy

  • A safe space where both partners feel heard and respected

  • Guidance that brings clarity—not blame

  • Tools to help you break negative cycles and reconnect emotionally

  • A deeper understanding of yourselves and each other

  • Progress at a pace that works for both of you

Sessions are collaborative, structured when needed, and always focused on practical change and emotional growth.

Hope for Your Relationship

It’s never too early—or too late—to invest in your relationship. You may be stuck in conflict, struggling to communicate, or simply wanting to be more intentional about your future together. Wherever you are, therapy can help.

I bring both professional expertise and real-life understanding to this work—offering a space that’s rooted in empathy, insight, and hope.

Let’s work together to help your relationship not just survive, but flourish.
You were made for connection—and it’s not too late to rediscover it.