Taking time to work on your relationships can lead to profound transformations, especially for high-performing professionals facing unique challenges. Through a structured, supportive and safe environment, partners can gain insight, address deep-rooted issues, enhance communication, and develop effective conflict resolution strategies with tools tailored to their specific needs.
By investing in relationship work, partners can experience accelerated progress, lasting change, and a rejuvenated connection, ultimately enhancing both their personal lives and professional performance.
Relationship Intensives
Intensives can be a great option for folks who are at a point of readiness to learn and implement new skills, and who want to make those changes now. They offer an efficient way for motivated and busy people to dig in, learn about themselves and partner(s), and implement new skills within a short period of time.
Relationship Coaching
Human beings are inherently social creatures, deeply wired for connection and relationships. This innate drive for connection underscores the importance of nurturing the health of our relationships, which allows us to experience a profound sense of belonging and emotional well-being. It is through relationships that we heal.
Kat uses a variety of approaches to help folks enhance the health of their relationships:
Modalities
Relational Life Therapy (RLT)
RLT takes a radical approach to couples therapy to restore power imbalances and build empathy between partners by conducting inner child work within the couples context, before empowering partners with the skills to embrace an entirely new way of relating.
Internal Family Systems (IFS)
IFS is a transformative tool that conceives of every human being as a system of protective and wounded inner parts led by a core Self. We believe the mind is naturally multiple and that is a good thing. Just like members of a family, inner parts are forced from their valuable states into extreme roles within us. Self is in everyone. It can’t be damaged. It knows how to heal.
Developmental Model
The developmental model of couples therapy views relationships as progressing through predictable stages of growth, similar to childhood development, and focuses on helping partners navigate these stages to achieve individual and relational maturity. This approach emphasizes supporting each partner’s personal growth while simultaneously strengthening the couple’s bond.
Emotion-Focused Therapy
EFT is a form of short-term therapy that aims to improve couple relationships by rekindling the physical and emotional bond that can get sacrificed to disappointment in a partner and alienation from them, a common dynamic in distressed couples. If there is a motto for EFT, it is: “Hold me tight.”
Psychobiological Approach
The psychobiological approach to couples therapy (PACT) integrates neuroscience, attachment theory, and arousal regulation to help partners understand their unconscious responses and create a secure, well-functioning relationship. The model combines understanding of physiological responses with psychological factors to address relationship issues holistically.
Integrative Relational Health Approaches
Integrative approaches to relational health takes a look at the whole picture and context in which the relationship exists, including living space/environment, diet and nutrition habits, movement, sleep hygiene, and stress management.
Intimacy Enhancement & Authentic Relating
People who are balancing work and intimate relationships often face unique challenges, including stress, time constraints, and performance anxiety. These issues can lead to desire discrepancies, intimacy avoidance, and communication breakdowns.
Therapy and coaching provides a safe space to explore these challenges, offering strategies to enhance physical, emotional, and sexual intimacy and connection.
Kat uses a variety of approaches to help folks enhance the health of their relationships:
Areas of focus:
- Relationship Mindfulness
- Desire discrepancies
- Sexual anxiety
- Lifestyle habits
- Scientific and researched-backed ways to enhance sexual connections
- Other psychological factors that enhance sexual functioning
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Polyamory and Nonmonogamy
Whether you’re new to polyamory or experienced but facing challenges, navigating nonmonogamy can present unique challenges that many people find difficult to overcome on their own. Common issues include managing jealousy, establishing clear boundaries, effective communication, balancing time and attention between partners, and addressing societal stigma. With support,
you can learn to create healthy, sustainable relationships, enhance connection and intimacy, and develop the skills & confidence necessary for authentic relating within the complexities of non-traditional relationship structures.
Areas of focus:
- Customized relationship design
- Communication techniques
- Boundaries and healthy agreements
- Jealousy and insecurity management
- Conflict resolution skills
- Sexual Identity exploration
- Time & commitment management
- Personal growth and self-discovery support
- Transition and relationships re-design guidance
- Emotional intimacy development
- Education on polyamory concepts
Sexuality, Gender, and Identity
In relationships, sexual identity and gender issues can surface as partners navigate their individual and shared experiences. These complexities may lead to misunderstandings, communication breakdowns, or emotional distress. Through the help of a professional, partners can better understand each other’s perspectives, promoting personal growth and allowing individuals to embrace their identities confidently.
Areas of focus:
Gender identity
Explore and affirm your gender identity with our compassionate support, tailored to your unique journey. Our sessions provide a safe space to navigate your feelings, questions, and experiences, helping you gain clarity and confidence in your gender identity.
Gender presentation and expression
Explore your gender identity with thoughtful and supportive guidance, designed to help you navigate your personal journey at home and in the world. Our sessions provide a safe space for self-reflection and understanding, supporting you as you discover and express your true self.
Sexual and emotional orientations
Our sessions offer a supportive environment for exploring your sexual and emotional orientations, helping you understand and embrace your unique experiences. We provide a compassionate space for self-discovery and reflection, guiding you as you uncover and express your authentic desires and connections.
Attractions
We provide a thoughtful and supportive environment to explore your attractions and orientations, helping you gain clarity about your unique experiences. Our sessions focus on understanding and embracing your personal attractions, offering guidance as you navigate and express your authentic self.
Kink
Our sessions offer a non-judgmental space to explore and understand your interests in kink, helping you navigate your desires with confidence and safety. We provide guidance and support as you explore what resonates with you, ensuring a respectful and informed approach to your experiences.
Personal identity factors
Our services provide a supportive environment for exploring various personal identity factors, helping you understand and integrate aspects of your identity with clarity.
Relationship & Sex Therapy for High-Performing Professionals
Kat’s style and approach often fits well with individuals who are professionally in leadership or other positions that require high performance. These roles and dynamics at work are hard to switch out of when the work day is done, and often there can be “leakage” from how you relate at work in your position to how you operate in your relationships at home.
High-performing couples face several unique challenges in their relationships due to their demanding careers and influential positions. Kat’s approach integrates both professional identity work AND authentic relating skills.
Areas of focus:
- Time management and work-life balance
- Maintaining intimacy and connection
- Ego clashes and competition
- Communication barriers
- Handling public scrutiny
- Balancing individual and collective success
- Managing stress and emotional volatility
- Dealing with conflicting priorities
Neurodiversity, Mental Health, and Trauma-Informed Relationships
Couples who are neurodivergent, have experienced trauma, or face mental health challenges often encounter unique relationship dynamics that can be difficult to navigate. Neurodivergent individuals often have different ways of processing information and interacting with the world and their intimate relationships, which can lead to communication barriers and challenges with emotional needs. Therapy can provide a supportive space to explore these challenges, offering supportive strategies, promoting deeper understanding of each other, and providing specific tools and strategies to support each other.
Areas of focus:
- Neurodivergence and relationship functioning
- Trauma impact(s) and healing in relationships
- Mental health-informed relationships
- Co-care and co-support
- Creative communication and intimacy work
- Enhancement of understanding, empathy, and helping each other feel “seen”