Every couple has moments where connection feels hard to find. Maybe arguments spiral faster than you expect or silence stretches longer than either of you would like. Even when there’s love, the distance between you can feel painful and confusing.
Couples therapy is a place to slow down and look at what’s happening between you; not just the fights but the longing underneath them. Many partners come to therapy not because they want to walk away, but because they still care deeply and don’t know how to stop hurting each other. Together, we’ll begin to untangle those patterns and make room for a new kind of closeness.
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.
