Couples Therapy & Relationship Repair

Couples often come to therapy after realizing that the problem is no longer just what they are arguing about. The same conflicts repeat, conversations become harder, and attempts to fix things can leave both people feeling more frustrated, disconnected, or misunderstood.

At GK Behavioral Health, we work with couples experiencing ongoing conflict, emotional distance, communication breakdowns, changes in intimacy, loss of trust, infidelity, and other relationship ruptures. We also work with couples who care deeply about one another but have become caught in patterns they no longer know how to change.

Effective couples therapy involves more than learning better communication techniques. We help couples understand what happens between them when things go wrong, what each person is reacting to, protecting against, needing, or struggling to express.

Our work is informed by attachment-based and Emotionally Focused Therapy approaches, helping couples slow down recurring interactions and begin responding to one another differently. The goal is not to eliminate disagreement, but to create a relationship in which difficult conversations can happen with greater safety, understanding, and connection.

An affair, secrecy, pornography or sexual behavior concerns, or another significant breach of trust can leave both partners uncertain about what is true, what can be repaired, and what should happen next.

We help couples understand both the impact of the rupture and the relationship in which it occurred. Therapy may involve rebuilding trust and connection, establishing clearer boundaries, understanding patterns that contributed to disconnection, and determining what each partner needs in order to move forward.

Couples therapy does not begin with the assumption that every relationship should remain together. Sometimes the work involves repairing and rebuilding a relationship; at other times, it involves gaining enough clarity to make thoughtful decisions about its future.

Both Yisroel Goodman, LCSW, and Kristin Katz, LCSW, work with couples and relationship concerns.

Yisroel's couples work is grounded in Emotionally Focused Therapy and attachment, with particular attention to emotional connection, communication, intimacy, and recurring relationship patterns.

Kristin has particular expertise in complex relationship dynamics, infidelity and trust rupture, personality-related patterns, and couples who may be uncertain about the future of their relationship.

Choosing a therapist is also about fit. We are happy to help you determine which clinician may be best suited to what you are experiencing.