ONLINE SESSIONS

For online telehealth sessions, I request the couple be in a well-lit room with two chairs facing each other. The couple must be in the same room together to have an effective session.

IN-Person SESSIONS

For in-person sessions, I have an office close to downtown Iowa City. If we decide to work together after our 20-minute consultation, I will follow up with an email including office directions.


PsychoBiological Approach to Couples Therapy

PACT is a cutting-edge approach to couples therapy developed by Dr. Stan Tatkin which brings together attachment theory, developmental neuroscience, and arousal regulation to effectively treat all couple types.

In session, you can expect me to help you and your partner notice the moment-to-moment shifts in the face, body, and voice to track one’s energy, alertness, and readiness to engage.

We will create experiences similar to the ones you have concerns about in your relationship and work through them with new tools in real-time.

Using PACT a typical intake is 3 hours and subsequent sessions are around 2 hours each. Although the sessions are longer, PACT couples therapy tends to require fewer sessions than other forms of couples therapy.


Payment

I accept BCBS/Wellmark insurance or private pay.

I also offer intensives of 5 hours for 3 consecutive days. Depending on a couple’s concern, intensives can be the best way to move through relational difficulty. Longer sessions can reduce the number of weeks, months, and years a couple is in therapy.


You feel best when you’re loved for who you are, known as who you are, understood as you are.” Stan Tatkin


“The couple bubble is an agreement to put the relationship before anything and everything else. it means putting your partner’s well-being, self-esteem, and distress relief first. And it means your partner does the same for you. You both agree to do it for each other. Therefore, you say to each other, “We come first.” In this way, you cement your relationship. It is like making a pact or taking a vow, or like reinforcing a vow you already took with one another.”

Stan Tatkin