When Exhaustion Runs the Show: How Becoming Parents, Role Shifts, and Burnout Reshape Your Relationship
New parent tension is common. Learn how roles, resentment, and burnout fuel conflict—and how couples therapy can help you reconnect after baby.
11 Tips for Managing Toddler Tantrums (That Actually Work)
Struggling with toddler tantrums? Learn 11 therapist-approved tips—validation, co-regulation, choices, visual timers, and repair—to prevent and calm meltdowns.
When Intrusive Thoughts Strain Your Relationship: Partnering Through Postpartum OCD
Worried intrusive thoughts are straining your relationship? Learn how postpartum OCD works, why reassurance backfires, ERP-based partner strategies, and how couples therapy helps.
From Roommates to Teammates: Re-establishing Romance After Baby
Feeling more like co-managers than partners since baby arrived? Learn why the “roommate phase” happens and how to rebuild intimacy—emotionally and physically—so you feel like teammates (and lovers) again.
When Old Wounds Echo: Why Past Trauma Shows Up in Relationships, and How Couples Therapy Helps
Understand how trauma patterns resurface in love, why pursue/withdraw cycles form, and how couples therapy creates safety, repair, and lasting change.
Rewriting the Holidays After Divorce: Gentle Ways to Care for Yourself, Your Kids, and Your Traditions
Facing the holidays post-divorce? Learn warm, practical ways to plan schedules, support kids, set boundaries, and create new rituals.
Heal the Past to Nurture the Present: How Inner Child Work Transforms Parenting
Learn how healing your inner child reduces reactivity, deepens attunement, and strengthens your parent-child relationship—plus what therapy looks like.
Navigating Holiday Questions About Family Planning: Scripts, Boundaries, and Self-care
Gentle scripts and boundaries for holiday questions about TTC, infertility, and pregnancy loss. Plus how to protect your mental health through the season.
Breaking Patterns with Compassion: How Childhood Trauma Shapes Your Parenting—and What You Can Do About It
Childhood trauma can shape parenting patterns and the parent-child bond. Learn how it shows up, what healing looks like, and how therapy can help.
Therapy in the Fourth Trimester: How Postpartum Counseling Helps You Transition into Parenthood
Postpartum therapy offers practical tools and emotionally attuned support for new parents. Learn how individual and couples counseling reduce anxiety, clarify roles, ease conflict, and strengthen bonding/attachment.
Before “I Do”: What Premarital Counseling Is—and How It Can Help
Warm, practical guide to premarital counseling: what it is, how it works, common topics, and the skills you’ll build.
When Infertility Changes Your Relationship: What Shifts, Why It’s So Hard, and How Therapy Can Help
Infertility can strain even strong relationships, impacting communication, sex, roles, and grief. Learn what to expect, how to stay connected, and how therapy (EFT, Gottman, EMDR) can help.
The Preferred Parent Phase: Why It Feels So Hard—and How to Navigate It
Is your child clinging to one parent and rejecting the other? Learn why “preferred parent” phases happen and get scripts, step-by-step routines, and therapy-informed strategies.
From Bump to Becoming: How Therapy During Pregnancy Helps You Prepare for Motherhood
Wondering how therapy can help you prepare for motherhood? Learn how pregnancy therapy supports mental health, relationships, birth prep, identity shifts, and postpartum planning.
What Are Love Languages—and How Can They Help My Relationship?
Learn what love languages are—and how to use them with Gottman and EFT tools to build steady connection. Warm, practical tips for real couples.
How to Manage Toddler Tantrums Without Losing Your Cool
Learn practical, compassionate strategies to handle toddler tantrums—without yelling. Scripts, step-by-step plan, co-regulation tools, and repair tips.
Mom Guilt: What It Is—And Why So Many Moms Feel It Today
What is “mom guilt” and why is it everywhere? Learn the psychology behind it, what fuels it today, and practical ways to heal.
11 Tips to Help You Stop Yelling at Your Kid (or Partner)
Ready to stop yelling and reconnect? Learn 11 therapist-backed tips—gentle startups, adult tap-outs, co-regulation, and repair—to reduce blowups with your child or partner. In-person in Hermosa Beach & Beverly Hills; online across California.
What to Say (and Not Say) When a Friend Shares a Miscarriage
Learn what to say—and what to avoid—when a friend shares a miscarriage. Compassionate scripts and support tips. In-person Hermosa Beach, West LA & Beverly Hills; online across CA.
When Scary Thoughts About Your Baby Take Over: Understanding and Healing from Postpartum OCD
Intrusive thoughts about your baby can feel terrifying. Learn about postpartum OCD, why scary thoughts happen, and how therapy can help. In-person therapy in Los Angeles, or online across California.