Welcome
Are you ready to increase joy, deepen connection, rebuild trust, and create lasting intimacy in your relationship?
My coaching is designed to help high-functioning and driven partners reconnect, communicate clearly, and restore intimacy using cutting-edge science—without months of traditional therapy. My coaching method is rooted in evidence based directive practices using models from psychology and neuroscience to bring healing and growth to your relationship.
You’ll benefit from coaching with me if you and your partner:
• Have tried traditional therapy for months without much shift
• Are feeling distant, stuck and frustrated in your marriage
• Feel like nothing you say lands correctly and conversations escalate quickly
• Want to move from resentment to intimacy
• Feel like you’re having the same arguments on repeat
• Want to feel more valued, accepted, appreciated, and secure
• Are navigating life transitions (parenthood, relocation, care taking of aging parents, career shifts)
• Highly value discretion and confidentiality
Method
My method gets to the subconscious root issues beneath the surface issues driving much of your conflicts and relationship patterns. This helps improve communication, resolve conflict and strengthen intimacy much faster than focusing on surface issues and is designed to create positive lasting change for couples. My evidence-based method was born from a passion for helping couples cultivate strong, meaningful connections that I have experienced on a personal and professional level. What started with my personal experience and recognition of the failures and limitations of traditional couples counseling, my personalized coaching method integrates neuroscience and trauma informed practices that have helped couples start experiencing impact without months of traditional counseling. Traditional couples counseling often leaves people feeling stuck, cycling through endless sessions of processing surface issues without tangible outcomes. While understanding issues is an important part, we must get to the deeper layers and understanding the root cause of your relational breakdowns to bring true transformation.
What makes my coaching different from traditional therapy and counseling?
I hold a Master’s degree in Psychology, trained in neuroscience and trauma-informed modalities, and certitied in NLP and Gottman methodologies. With many hours of training and mentorship under the best coaches, continuing my own studies, and using the knowledge, tools, and skills I learned for personal and professional application, I developed a research-based, results-driven and solution-focused methodology and practice for couples to achieve immediate lasting change in their relationships. I am a trained practitioner who was also once a patient and developed my practice using my training and personal experience. My method is goal-driven, structured, and provides the awareness and knowledge needed to propel change, integrating:
TRAUMA-INFORMED PSYCHOLOGY
Understand how past experiences shape current relationship dynamics and beliefs—without judgment and re-traumatization.
NEUROSCIENCE OF CONNECTION
Learn how your brain and body react in relationships, and how to shift from reactivity to connection.
EMOTIONALLY FOCUSED & ATTACHMENT-BASED APPROACH
We focus on your core emotional needs that drive behavior—creating safety, security, and closeness.
BACKED BY RESEARCH
Gain practical tools and skills backed by studies conducted by the Gottman Institute, one of the leading experts in relationships.
Testimonials
After years of trying couple’s and individual therapy, Teresa was our last ditch effort to save our marriage. Divorce would’ve cost us tens of thousands of dollars and we will forever owe our new marriage to Teresa. Teresa’s coaching method is efficient, powerful, insightful, structured, compassionately directive, and exactly what we needed.
R&D
If you want high efficiency, respect for privacy, and customized support for your marriage, Teresa is your coach. We have been married for over 20 years and I now look at my partner in a new light and wish I would’ve gotten this help sooner.
SK
This seminar is an essential part of the marital journey. It covered the many different aspects of marriage, including communication, conflict resolution, and empathy. It is engaging with real-life examples and anecdotes to illustrate key points. It offered a mix of instruction, group discussion, and experiential exercises, which helped to keep us engaged and actively participating. It emphasized the importance of self-reflection and self-awareness in developing a successful marriage. It is highly recommended for everyone.
DC
Teresa helped my partner and I understand the ‘WHY’ behind our behaviors and conflicts, and introduced us to practical tools that address the ‘HOW’ to resolve and prevent those recurring conflicts in our relationship.
DJ
Spring 2023
Teresa put together such a welcoming environment for couples that might feel intimidated by attending a ‘marriage class.’ Her approach is focused on what happens in our brains during times of both intimacy and confrontation and we found it to be educational and such a fun way to spend our night out together learning about not only ourselves, but also how we’re not so different from those around us. We will 100% sign up again in the future.
L&D
Summer 2023
Services Available
Helping busy, overworked couples find peace in their relationships through tailored services.
WEEKLY PRIVATE COACHING
Weekly 60 minute couples and individual coaching sessions in my office. Virtual sessions available.
COUPLES INTENSIVE
Two days of contained intensive work to reset your relationship within a short time frame. Customized to your specific needs. For those who want to condense four months of weekly sessions into two days.
CONCIERGE SERVICES
Option to meet in your home, a designated location, or virtually and taylor the amount of weekly support you need. We work together to create a plan and adjust as needed.
Let’s Connect
DISCOVERY CALLBook a Complimentary Discovery Call session and let’s have a conversation and discover how I can support you. You can count on complete confidentiality.
There Is Hope
PLEASE EXPLORE ALL OF YOUR OPTIONS BEFORE DECIDING TO END YOUR RELATIONSHIP
If you’re currently trying to solve a seemingly unresolvable dilemma in your marriage, let’s start a conversation about how my coaching can result in the positive changes you’re looking for. There is a high financial and emotional cost to ending your marriage so please explore all your options first. There may be more hope than you feel at the moment. If traditional therapy or counseling has let you down, I’d love to connect with you.
You’ve built a life together, now let’s rebuild the closeness.
Seminars
Are you interested in attending a marriage seminar or hosting one at your church/organization? Unlike other marriage seminars, my workshops, include research backed, hands-on applicable opportunities. You’re not just leaving with information, you’re leaving with knowledge, skills and practice.
INQUIRY FORMStarting soon
Art of Marriage Express Class at La Canada Presbyterian Church
February 22 – March 15 Sundays, 4:30-6:00pm
Childcare Available, 4:30-8:00pm to encourage post-class “dinner date”
Let’s Connect
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