Couples & Marriage Counseling
in Washington, DC & Virginia
Break painful conflict cycles, rebuild trust, and feel close again with specialized Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy.
Even the strongest couples can become stuck in painful cycles where every difficult conversation feels hard. Conversations become arguments, disagreements become fights, ending in the same feelings of frustration, anger, hurt, defensiveness, sadness, loneliness, silence, and disconnection, leaving you unsure of how to get back to how things used to be.
Or Maybe you were fine until the demands of work, parenting, infidelity, or life stressors took a toll on your relationship, damaging your trust and intimacy.
Both things can be true sometimes, you can love someone and not know how to overcome the recurring conflicts and distance between you.
Our couples therapists help partners understand the emotions beneath these patterns and learn to communicate—and even disagree— in ways that builds trust and closeness again.
Free 30-minute consultation · In-person and Online Therapy · Currently accepting new clients
Our Couples Therapist specialize in Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy, which is the gold standard in relationship counseling, backed by research, and provide affirming care for married and unmarried partners, LGBTQIA+ couples, interracial and multicultural couples, and couples navigating infidelity, pregnancy, parenthood, ENM & polyamory, overwhelming stressors, health issues, and other major life changes.
Find the Couples Therapy Thats Right for You
Interracial Couples Therapy
Interracial couples experience stressors that are unique to their relationship. From dealing with racism and microagressions to navigating boundaries/ dynamics with extended family, value differences, how to raise mix race kids and gender roles, all of these can all lead to recurring arguments or disconnects that can feel hard to untangle.
Our culturally responsive couples therapists help interracial couples navigate these complex issues, develop a deeper insight into each other’s cultural experiences, expectation or cultural scripts they may be bringing into the relationship. Through couples therapy, you will learn to have culturally sensitive conversations to navigate these issues with greater empathy and a sense of being on the same team, so both partners feel understood, respected, and supported.
Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy
Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy (EFT) helps couples repair and strengthen supportive bonds by overcoming their negative cycles of interaction they they find themselves stuck in. Be it negative cycles of frustration, walking way from each other, saying hurtful things that you later regret, feeling misunderstood or struggling to have productive conversations, through EFT relationship counseling you’ll learn to tap into your underlying emotions of hurt, loneliness, not feeling cared for and not feeling important to your partner and communicate these emotions instead of just the frustration, anger, reverting to silence or walking way from the conflict. Once you learn to communicate in these ways, these new positive cycles that then become self-reinforcing helping you feel closer and understood by your partner. EFT is considered the gold standard in couples therapy to foster a secure bond between partners.
Preconception, Pregnant & Postpartum Couples Therapy
The journey to parenthood comes in many beautiful shapes and forms, from pregnancy to adoption to surrogacy, each leading to a big life transition for couples. Navigating all this can be exciting, overwhelming, full of unexpected twists/ turns, and it creates a heightened need to ‘get on the same page’. Postpartum Couples Therapy & Couples therapy for parents-to-be and new parents focuses on helping partners talk about their emotional and practical needs from each other, how to navigate the stressful moments without turining on each other, explore and align on parenting values, and deal with the distress of trying to concieve, ART and the postpartum period.
Couples Therapy for LGBTQ+ Couples, Polyamory & ENM
Your relationship deserves a therapeutic space where your identities, experiences, and relationship structure are understood and respected. Our affirming couples therapists support LGBTQ+ partners and people practicing polyamory and ethical non-monogamy.
Couples Therapy can help you work through communication difficulties, recurring conflict, jealousy, trust concerns, intimacy, changing needs, boundaries, agreements, and the complexities of balancing multiple relationships. We also understand how coming out, gender exploration or transition, family acceptance, discrimination, and minority stress can affect a relationship.
Schedule a Consultation with our Specialized Couples Therapists
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Isabella Calinagert, LGPC
LGBTQIA+ Affirming EFT Couples Therapist for Queer & ENM Relationships
In-person in Rosslyn, VA
Online Therapy across DC, VA & MD
Accepting new clients
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Olesya Van Dijck, LPC
EFT Couples Counselor, Trauma-informed Holistic Psychotherapist & Art Therapist
In-person at Dupont, DC
Online Therapy across DC & VA
Accepting new clients
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Theresa Sherman, LGPC
EFT Couples Counselor for Parents & Perinatal/ Postpartum & Trauma-informed Psychotherapist
Online across DC
Accepting new clients
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Shayla Martin, LGPC
Holistic Perinatal/ Postpartum Couples Counselor & Trauma-informed Psychotherapist
In-person at Dupont, DC
Online across DC
Waitlist 4-6 Weeks
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Huma Sikandar Fatakia, LPC
EFT Couples Counselor specialized in Interracial Relationships & Holistic EMDR Trauma Therapist
In-person at Clarendon, VA
Online across DC & VA
Waitlist 1-2 Months
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Madeline Gaffney, LGPC
EFT Couples Counselor & Holistic Psychotherapist
In-person at Dupont, DC
Online across DC & VA
Waitlist 3-4 Months
