Couples
Couples Therapy – Strengthen Your Relationship Before Crisis Hits
At TheraQ, our couples therapy sessions provide a safe and supportive space for partners to work through challenges, improve communication, and rebuild connection. Whether you’re facing conflict, growing apart, or just want to strengthen your bond, therapy helps couples understand each other better, resolve issues, and create a healthier, more fulfilling relationship together.
Communication Issues
Maybe you’ve noticed communication isn’t flowing the way it used to. You want to feel heard and also listen to your partner more clearly. Couples therapy can help restore understanding and connection.
Frequent Conflicts
Perhaps disagreements have become more frequent, and you’re both tired of having the same arguments without resolution. Therapy provides tools to manage conflicts and find lasting solutions.
Life Transitions
Life might be shifting, a new job, a baby, a loss, or a move,and you’re looking to get aligned on major goals such as finances, family planning, intimacy, and shared values. Couples counseling encourages honest, compassionate conversations to navigate these changes together.
Emotional Distance
Maybe you’re just feeling a bit distant and want to reconnect emotionally, rediscover the reasons you chose each other, and strengthen your bond. Couples therapy can help reignite intimacy and understanding.
Supporting Your Relationship to Grow,
Connect, and Thrive
Couples therapy isn’t about “fixing” you—it’s about providing your relationship with the space, tools, and guidance it needs to grow and thrive. Whether you’re navigating conflicts, managing life changes, or strengthening your connection, professional support can help you and your partner communicate better, understand each other more deeply, and build a lasting, fulfilling relationship.
Supporting Your Relationship to Grow,
Connect, and Thrive
Couples therapy isn’t about “fixing” you—it’s about providing your relationship with the space, tools, and guidance it needs to grow and thrive. Whether you’re navigating conflicts, managing life changes, or strengthening your connection, professional support can help you and your partner communicate better, understand each other more deeply, and build a lasting, fulfilling relationship.
Modalities TheraQ Offers
Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT)
Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT)
Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) is a research-based approach that helps people strengthen emotional bonds and heal relationship wounds. Originally developed for couples, EFT has since been adapted for individuals (EFIT) and families (EFFT). At its core, EFT helps people recognize negative interaction patterns, understand the emotions driving them, and create new ways of connecting that feel safe and supportive.
How it Helps
Many couples and individuals come to therapy feeling stuck in cycles of conflict, distance, or disconnection. EFT provides a roadmap to:
TheraQ helps with:
Identify and interrupt unhealthy communication patterns
Heal attachment injuries caused by conflict, betrayal, or trauma
Deepen emotional intimacy and trust
Build healthier ways of expressing needs and responding to each other
Strengthen resilience in the face of stress or life transitions
What to Expect
EFT therapy in California helps you slow reactive cycles and explore emotions beneath conflict. EFIT provides tools to heal relational wounds, build self-compassion, and create stronger, more secure connections.
Why Choose EFT at TheraQ?
At TheraQ, our California-based clinicians are trained in Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) for individuals, couples counseling, and family therapy. Our clinicians integrate EFT into their work to help clients strengthen relationships, improve communication, and heal from betrayal or past relational wounds. EFT provides a proven path toward deeper connection and lasting change.
The Gottman Method
The Gottman Method
The Gottman Method is a research-based approach to couples therapy developed by Drs. John and Julie Gottman after decades of studying what makes relationships succeed or struggle. This method provides couples with practical tools to improve communication, deepen intimacy, and manage conflict in healthy, productive ways.
How it Helps
The Gottman Method is especially useful for couples who feel caught in repetitive arguments or who want clear strategies to strengthen their relationship.
TheraQ helps with:
Improve communication so both partners feel heard and understood
Manage conflict without escalating into hurtful patterns
Rebuild trust after betrayal or disconnection
Increase affection, intimacy, and shared meaning
Create a stronger foundation for long-term partnership
What to Expect
Gottman Method couples therapy in California uses structured tools like Love Maps, The Four Horsemen, and the Sound Relationship House to identify relationship strengths and challenges. The focus is on understanding each other deeply and building lasting, healthy habits.