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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Tips for Navigating Infertility in a World of Social Media
Protect your mental health while trying to conceive in the age of endless pregnancy posts. Practical tips for navigating social media, therapy insights, FAQs, and resources for Californians navigating infertility.
Talking to Your Children About Divorce: A Compassionate, Age-By-Age Roadmap for Parents
Warm, therapist-guided article on telling kids about divorce — developmentally attuned language, real-life scripts, and emotional support for every age.
Understanding Trauma: Why Moving Forward Can Feel So Hard — and How Healing Happens
Learn what trauma is, how it reshapes your brain and body, and why “just getting over it” rarely works — plus the evidence-based therapies that foster true healing in Hermosa Beach, Beverly Hills, and online across California.
Why Pregnancy & Postpartum Are the Perfect Time to Start Therapy
Discover why pregnancy and postpartum are ideal times to begin therapy. Learn how individual and couples counseling can support emotional health and relationships during this transformative season — available in-person in Hermosa Beach & Beverly Hills, and online throughout California.
Navigating the Transition: How Co-Parenting Therapy Supports Families Through Divorce & Beyond
Discover how co-parenting therapy helps separated parents move from conflict to collaboration while protecting their children’s well-being. Offered in Hermosa Beach, Beverly Hills, and online across California.
Therapy Intensives: How a Focused Weekend Can Transform Couples & Trauma Healing
Discover how couples‑therapy and EMDR intensives condense months of progress into one powerful weekend — how it helps, what to expect, and who benefits.
When Child Behavioral Issues Point to Parent Relationship Strain
Sometimes a child’s challenging behavior is more than a phase — it’s a signal of stress in the parenting relationship. Learn how parent relationship strain can contribute to a child's behavioral difficulties, and how to bring more calm to your home.