Relationship Therapy

IFS-Informed Approach

This work supports you in understanding what’s happening inside you and between you, so you can move forward with more clarity, choice, and connection.

Together, we focus on how each of your internal experiences shapes the relationship—and how those patterns can begin to shift.

This work can support:

  • Deepening connection

  • Gaining clarity about the relationship

Format & Structure

Relationship work is offered in two formats:

Intensives

  • 4-hour blocks

  • Most people meet 2–6 times (8–24 hours total)

  • Scheduled on consecutive days or spaced out

Ongoing Sessions

  • 90-minute sessions

  • Designed to create enough space to slow down, track patterns, and work in depth

Some people begin with an intensive and continue with ongoing sessions.

We’ll collaborate on a structure that best supports your goals.

Who This Work Is For

This may be a good fit if:

  • You find yourselves caught in repeating patterns that are hard to shift

  • You want to understand what’s happening beneath conflict and disconnection

  • You want support in navigating complex emotions within the relationship

  • You are seeking clarity about how to move forward together

  • You’re looking for a depth-oriented approach that helps you make sense of your experience

For Therapists and Clinicians

I work with many therapists and clinicians who come into this work with their partner, not as professionals, but as people within their own relationship.

This may resonate if you:

  • Want to experience IFS-informed relationship work from the inside

  • Notice your own parts showing up strongly in your relationship

  • Find that insight and clinical knowledge don’t always translate into personal moments

  • Want support navigating the complexity of being both a therapist and a partner

  • Are interested in doing deep, experiential work together, not just talking about patterns

This work creates space to experience what it’s like to be:

  • In your own system

  • In relationship with your partner

  • And supported in understanding both at the same time

For many therapists, this becomes a place where things shift in ways that don’t happen through insight alone.

Our Focus IN RELATIONSHIP COUNSELING

We focus on the moment-to-moment experience of being in a relationship.

This includes:

  • The internal experience each person is having

  • The meaning your system makes of each other’s behavior

  • The patterns that repeat over time

  • How each of you responds when something gets activated

As we track these patterns together, new options begin to emerge.

How We Understand What’s Happening Between You

Each of you is responding to what your system perceives and expects.

The same moment can be experienced in very different ways, depending on what each of you is carrying internally.

In this work, we slow things down to understand:

  • What each of you experienced internally

  • How those experiences shaped your responses

From there, we support the development of:

  • Staying present while activated

  • Allowing yourself to be seen

  • Understanding your partner while staying connected to yourself

In sessions, we:

  • Slow down the interaction

  • Track what’s happening in real time

  • Work directly with internal experiences and parts

  • Support each person in staying connected while engaged in the process

What Develops Through This Work

Over time, this work supports:

Understanding

  • Clearer awareness of your internal responses

  • Insight into patterns that shape the relationship

Capacity

  • Staying present during activation

  • Being seen without shutting down or escalating

  • Remaining connected while having your own experience

This creates more space for choice in how you respond, rather than feeling pulled into the same reactions.

Clarity About the Relationship

This work supports clarity about how the relationship is functioning and what is possible within it.

Outcomes may include:

  • Strengthening and deepening the connection

  • Greater understanding of each other

  • Clarity about differences or incompatibilities

  • More intentional decision-making about next steps

Learn more about Michael and his approach.

To view fees for relationship work, please visit the Fees page.

If you’re interested in individual-focused work, you can also learn more about Individual Intensive Therapy.

Next Step

If this approach resonates, the next step is to reach out or schedule a consultation.

Contact Michael