Couples Therapy · Washington, DC · Telehealth

The world sees a power couple. Your home feels like two people on separate calendars.

Emotionally Focused couples therapy for DC partners carrying high-stakes careers, public-facing roles, and a relationship that has gone quiet behind closed doors.

In this city, visibility is part of the job. The hearing, the deal, the campaign, the room where every word gets weighed. You have both become experts at composure, at reading a room, at never letting the pressure show.

But composure has a cost. By the time you get home, there is nothing left to be soft with. The performance that protects your careers has quietly become the way you speak to each other, polished, efficient, and a little bit distant.

You are exhausted from being the couple everyone else admires.

You do not need to be in crisis to start here. You need two people willing to stop managing the image and start turning toward each other.

Sessions are held by secure telehealth. Both partners must be physically located in Washington, DC during each session.

This work may be for you if:

  • ✦Your careers, the Hill, a firm, an agency, a campaign, demand constant composure, and you've started bringing that composure home
  • ✦You manage conflict the way you manage a crisis at work: contain it, don't show it, move on
  • ✦People assume your relationship is thriving because your careers are
  • ✦You want a therapist who understands high-visibility, high-stakes work, not just generic "work-life balance" advice

How we work together.

I use Emotionally Focused Therapy, a research-supported approach built for exactly this pattern: two capable people who have gotten very good at managing everything except each other. EFT moves beneath the composure to the attachment needs underneath it, the fear of letting the performance drop, the longing to be reached without having to ask.

For couples preparing for marriage or wanting a clearer relational foundation, I also integrate Prepare & Enrich, a structured, research-based assessment.

Do you see couples in person in DC?
No. This page is for telehealth clients physically located in Washington, DC. In-person sessions are offered Fridays at my Lake Mary, FL office.
Do you work with couples in high-visibility careers (law, policy, government, media)?
Yes, this is a core focus of my DC telehealth practice. Confidentiality and discretion are foundational to how I work.
Is this different from the general Couples Therapy page?
Same clinical approach and pricing, this page simply speaks to the specific pressures DC couples describe most often.

Couples sessions are $275, includes Prepare & Enrich where applicable.

You built this life together. You deserve to actually live in it, together.

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