In LA, many couples appear to have it all together: the home, the career, the lifestyle. From the outside, everything looks enviable. But behind closed doors, many partners carry quiet disconnection: conversations that never go deeper than logistics, conflicts that recycle without resolution, intimacy that feels flat or absent.
Couples therapy isn’t about fixing what’s “broken.” It’s about uncovering the patterns that keep you from truly seeing and hearing one another. It’s about creating a relationship where both partners feel safe, alive, and deeply connected and not just maintaining appearances.
When we work together, we go beneath the surface. We explore how your histories : the families you grew up in, the wounds you’ve carried, the defenses you built shape how you love today. And we begin practicing new ways of relating that make space for honesty, vulnerability, and intimacy.
about me
I am Croatian born and raised licensed marriage and family therapist in Hermosa Beach, CA providing in person and virtual therapy to adults and couples. I work with my clients on rewriting their stories, so they can live their lives by design rather than by default. I’ll help you rewrite the way you think and feel about your relationships with yourself, the world, and those around you.
Couples come to see when they need help working through infidelity, building and rebuilding trust, communication difficulties, conflict issues, relational traumas, intimacy issues, difficulty connecting, avoidance and shutting down, jealousy, lack of physical and emotional connection, parenting... I also offer premarital counseling as well as two days weekend intensives for couples.
Individual clients often need help with overcoming trauma, shame, hopelessness, fear, divorce or parenting, existential wonder, difficulties setting boundaries, childhood neglect, learning how to trust themselves, self-worth, letting go, feeling and being comfortable with who they are, relational issues, childhood wounds, self sabotaging, loss and grief, religion/ spirituality, family and family of origin, and many more.
In my practice, I incorporate narrative, psychodynamic, family systems, Imago, somatic, and attachment theory through a trauma-informed lens.
Who I am.
