Therapy for Relationships
In-person therapy in Beverly Hills and surrounding Westside neighborhoods. Telehealth sessions available across California.
Understanding Patterns in Our Relationships
Our earliest relationships shape how we love, communicate, and protect ourselves in connection with others. When relationships become painful or disorienting, it’s often because old patterns of relating are being repeated in the present, unconsciously re-enacted with partners, friends, or family. In our work together, I help bring these patterns into awareness as they emerge in the therapeutic relationship itself, creating space for greater flexibility and freedom in how you relate to others.
Located in Beverly Hills, my practice offers a thoughtful, open space to explore these struggles and gently uncover their deeper, unconscious roots.
Common Signs of Relationship Struggles
Recurring arguments about the “same thing,” even when the topic changes
Feeling unseen, criticized, or responsible for others’ emotions
Pulling away (shutting down, stonewalling) or pursuing (reassurance-seeking)
Jealousy, mixed signals, or difficulty with trust and boundaries
Patterns of codependency or low self-worth in relationships
Trouble naming needs, setting limits, or tolerating disagreement
My Approach to Working with Interpersonal Relationships
How we learned to love, speak up, and self-protect begins in our earliest bonds. When relationships feel confusing or painful now, it’s often because those early templates are quietly replaying with partners, friends, or family. In our meetings, we notice these patterns as they surface, in your stories and in the space between us, so there’s more room for flexibility, choice, and ease in how you relate.
In our sessions, we will:
Map your pattern: Identify when you pursue, pull back, appease, or take charge, and what each move is trying to safeguard.
Find the origins: Connect today’s triggers to earlier relationships to understand why certain moments carry such intensity.
Practice in real time: Use our sessions to try clearer language, set workable boundaries, and repair after missteps.
Strengthen choice: Build the capacity to stay present in conflict, hold mixed feelings, and act in line with your values.
Frequently Asked Questions about Therapy for Relationships
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Yes. Individual therapy can be highly effective for relationship problems because most relational difficulties have roots in one's own internal world: unspoken expectations, fears of abandonment or engulfment, and patterns of self-protection that predate the current relationship. Working individually allows you to explore your contribution to the dynamic without the pressure of negotiating with a partner in the room.
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Relationship anxiety is a persistent, unsettling doubt about whether your relationship is real, safe, or going to last, even when nothing specific has gone wrong. You might find yourself reading into a partner's tone, needing to hear that things are okay more often than feels reasonable, or pulling away when closeness starts to feel like risk. These patterns often trace back to earlier relational experiences where closeness was unpredictable or conditional. Anxiety therapy can help address the underlying patterns driving the worry.
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Early relationships establish templates for how you expect others to respond to your needs: whether closeness feels safe or threatening, whether vulnerability leads to care or disappointment. These templates operate largely outside awareness, influencing partner selection, conflict patterns, and emotional availability. Psychoanalytic therapy makes these inherited patterns conscious so they can be understood and, over time, reworked.
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Therapy helps you revisit past relationship experiences not to relive them but to understand how they continue to shape your present. The pain of relationship trauma persists because it becomes woven into your expectations of intimacy: how safe it feels to trust, how you interpret silence or conflict, what you believe you deserve. Letting go is rarely a matter of willpower. As the trauma is processed and its meanings become clearer, the hold it has on current relationships gradually loosens.
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Narcissistic dynamics in relationships often involve a pattern where one person's needs consistently dominate while the other's are minimized or dismissed. Covert narcissism can be especially difficult to identify because it operates through subtle control, emotional withdrawal, or victimhood rather than overt grandiosity. If you have been in a relationship shaped by narcissistic patterns, therapy can help you understand the impact, rebuild your sense of self, and recognize these dynamics earlier in the future.
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Often, difficulty with sex, touch, and emotional openness reflects deeper fears of need, rejection, or loss of self. We work at both levels, language and body, so closeness can feel safer and more genuine.
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Yes. We look at how early attachment experiences shaped the way you seek closeness, handle distance, and respond to conflict, then build new ways of relating that feel steadier.
