The quality of our relationships is central to our entire experience of life. I feel a strong connection to people who want their important relationships to be better, whether those are relationships with a partner (heterosexual, gay, lesbian), friend or family member.

Bob is caught between a rock and a hard place. A college professor nearing retirement, he married for the second time a few years ago. His grown daughter is angry and he doesn't know why. This relationship stress causes problems with his wife. He wants his family relationships to be peaceful. Several individual psychotherapy sessions and a few sessions with his wife helped.

Katie and Karen are young lawyers and in a committed lesbian relationship. They care a great deal for each other; however, their sex life is mostly non-existent.  Improving communication increased their intimacy emotionally and physically.

Don and Amy are in their late thirties, trying to decide whether to adopt a child. This is made more difficult because of the tension between them, generated in part by their struggle with infertility and the relationship stress it caused.  Couples psychotherapy sessions helped them integrate their difficult past experiences so that they could  move forward.

Rose and Jeff, an intercultural couple in their early fifties, were drifting apart. They are both accomplished in their careers, have two bright and accomplished children and very little time for anything else. She emigrated from Taiwan with her family when she was 10. He is Jewish and from Mississippi. Family is important to each of them, but their communication styles are very different; he is reserved, she is outspoken and had difficulty talking about the conflict in their intimate relationship.  Psychotherapy has enabled them to talk more productively.