COUPLEs THERAPY

Couples therapy offers a space to slow down and understand what’s happening beneath the surface.

At California Counseling Collective, we provide online couples therapy for partners across California who want more than surface-level communication tools. We help you understand the attachment patterns, nervous system responses, and old relational templates shaping the way you show up with each other.

Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT)

EFT is an attachment-based model of couples therapy that helps partners understand the emotional patterns driving conflict and disconnection. Instead of focusing only on communication techniques, EFT helps uncover the deeper fears, longings, and protective responses beneath arguments. As emotional safety increases, couples are able to soften, repair, and reconnect in meaningful ways. EFT is especially effective for couples feeling stuck in repetitive cycles or struggling after a rupture.

Gottman Method

The Gottman Method is a research-based approach to relationship counseling that focuses on strengthening friendship, improving communication, and building practical tools for navigating conflict. We help couples identify destructive interaction patterns, increase emotional attunement, and create shared meaning. Gottman-informed work is structured, actionable, and grounded in decades of relationship research.

LGBTQ+ Affirming Couples Therapy

We provide LGBTQ+ affirming couples therapy for partners across California. We understand that queer relationships exist within broader social, cultural, and systemic contexts that can impact safety, identity, and relational dynamics. Our work honors each partner’s lived experience while creating a space that feels validating, inclusive, and free from heteronormative assumptions. We support couples navigating identity exploration, family dynamics, religious trauma, parenting decisions, and everything in between.