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Couples Therapy

How I Work with Couples

Relationships can be both deeply fulfilling and deeply challenging. Whether you’re hoping to strengthen communication, create greater emotional intimacy, or learn how to co-parent with more ease, couples therapy provides a supportive space to do this work together.

My approach is warm, interactive, and collaborative. Much of our work will involve identifying the patterns you fall into during conflict — often cycles of one partner pursuing and the other withdrawing — and understanding how your attachment styles shape the way you relate to each other. From there, we’ll focus on building new ways of communicating, resolving conflict, and reconnecting emotionally.

Moving Forward

Couples therapy is an opportunity to step out of old cycles and create new ways of connecting. Whether you’re hoping to rebuild trust, strengthen communication, or simply feel closer to one another, our work together will focus on helping you experience more safety, intimacy, and resilience in your relationship.

If you and your partner are ready to take the next step, I’d be honored to support you in building the relationship you both want and deserve.

Areas of Focus

I support parents and adult children working through:

  • Relationship milestones — beginning a new relationship or preparing for marriage

  • Parenthood transitions — from trying to conceive, infertility, and pregnancy loss to welcoming a new baby or parenting children and teens

  • Family dynamics — managing complex family of origin relationships and external stressors

  • Life changes — adjusting to major moves, career shifts, or grief and loss

  • Repair and healing — recovering from infidelity, rebuilding trust, and addressing difficulties with sexual intimacy

  • Crossroads — discerning whether to stay together, separate, or reimagine the relationship

  • Supporting one another through struggle — when a partner is experiencing depression, anxiety, or disordered eating

Location & Hours

Therapist serving San Rafael, Marin County, and the greater Bay Area. Offering online therapy for clients across California.

Monday - Friday

9am - 4pm

Email: kate@kateleffeltherapy.com

Phone: 415-579-1954

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