Bluffton, Hilton Head Marriage Counselor Helps Individuals & Couples with Relationship Challenges
I’m humbled to know you have stopped by my website to learn more about my counseling and psychotherapy private practice. I have a heart for the family and a love for serving others. I believe your marriage is the most important relationship you can have and that it should be a source of inspirational joy in your life. I believe the foundation of the family starts with a strong commitment built on faith, friendship, trust, and healthy intimacy. Most importantly, I believe there is hope for marriages rocked by infidelity and compulsive sexual behaviors. Change is possible. There is always hope.
Every Relationship Needs a Boost Sometimes
I help couples when they feel “stuck” in their marriage. Marriages go through different seasons with some having more challenges than others. Welcoming a new baby, losing a job, blending families, the death of a loved one as well as many other normal life events can put stress on any relationship. Continuing to have that same old fight that never gets resolved can be over come. Life is hard and over time you can feel neglected, unloved, lonely, hopeless, and disconnected. Don’t let this cycle persist. Whether you are in need of marriage enrichment (Gottman Couple Counseling, Gottman Workshops) or crisis counseling, please reach out to me and I will help you develop skills to improve communication, affection and intimacy, a sense of partnership, deeper connection and purpose.
I Specialize in Marriages Complicated by Infidelity, Sex Addictions, Porn Addiction and Lack of Intimacy
I help individuals and couples rebuild hope, trust and purpose after discovering secrets and betrayals. Recovering from betrayal is complicated. I help couples manage the crisis and the fall out of infidelity and other deceptions. I guide each person through options, and help plan a course of action for healing. I help individuals and couples re-establish emotional safety, rebuild trust, overcome depression, anger and anxiety, and break through destructive behaviors and addictions to help them reestablish passionate and purposeful lives.
Specialized Expert: Intimacy Disorders, Compulsive Sexual Behaviors, Porn Addiction
I have devoted hundreds of hours of additional education and training to become a specialized expert in the area of infidelity, chronic lying, intimacy disorders, and compulsive sexual behaviors. Complicated relationships demand specialized counseling and therapy above and beyond the scope of traditional marriage counseling. Infidelity and deceptions caused by sex addiction are better understood and treated as a relationship trauma and not simply a relationship problem. Because of this, traditional marriage counseling is often times ineffective and as many women already know, it can actually cause re-traumatization.
I am a South Carolina Licensed Professional Counselor Intern with advanced and specialized training specific to complicated marriages. I have additional and extensive training as a Certified Sex Addiction Recovery Therapist and a Certified Partners Recovery Therapist.
Rebuilding a marriage requires learning new skills. As a Level 3 Gottman Therapist and a certified leader of The Seven Principles of Making Marriage Work Gottman workshop I am specifically qualified to help couples replace destructive behaviors that tear down a marriage with positive behaviors that build intimacy, affection, friendship, trust and commitment.
I have also studied Cognitive Behavioral Therapy with Judith Beck of the renowned Beck Institute and Emotionally Focused Therapy with Sue Johnson. I have dedicated many years to becoming expertly qualified to help you build a healthy marriage and an extraordinary family.
Hope & Healing
My hope is that you can feel safe, understood, and cared for in a therapy setting. Telling someone about the most personal details of your life takes courage. I will provide complete confidentiality, emotional safety, empathy and a judgement-free place to tell your story. You are worthy to be loved. You are worthy to have a marriage built on honesty. You deserve to know the truth. You deserve to share your life with a faithful, loving, partner. Don’t give up! Your marriage is worth fighting for! I would be honored to walk with you on this difficult journey to help you restore hope and healing in your life!
PS—Just in case you’re interested. I have lived in the Hilton Head Island/Bluffton area for over 30 years. My husband and I have been married for 31 years and we have 4 adult children and a Golden named Daisy! (You’ll probably meet Daisy in my office!) I love kayaking on the May River and beekeeping.