Do you struggle with unproductive and non-effective communications with your partner?

Do you notice you are having the same argument with your partner over and over again and feeling stuck without any good solutions? You may notice you and your partner both become defensive in arguments and you both try to win the argument but it never feels good whoever wins. If it is your case, you may notice your feelings are not heard and understood and you may feel alone in the relationships without deep emotional connections with your partner. And you wonder how you and your partner ended up here.

In couples therapy, I specialize in working with couples who are Asians or interracial couples by using culturally-informed approach to understand how their cultural differences affect their dynamic and communications, and create new and positive emotional connections in and outside therapy. Many of my international and interracial couple clients struggle with their cultural differences in their relationship that two partners have different values, and communicate their emotions, thoughts and love differently. When we do not understand how our cultures and family of origin greatly affect how we communicate our feelings, care, and dissatisfaction in a relationship, it  could create unhealthy and non-effective patterns of emotions and interactions in a relationship. In my couples therapy, I aim to focus on paying attention to their felt sense of emotions in communications and developing new positive emotional experiences and communications between the partners by deepening and sharing true emotions of each partner with one another. The couples that I worked with have been able to identify negative patterns of communications and dynamics that made them feel alone in their relationship and stuck with same arguments and emotional pain. After our work together, many couples become able to develop more empathy towards each other and new communication skills to feel deeper emotional connections with each other that they had never experienced before.

If you are interested in creating new positive emotional experiences and communications with your partner, I invite you to reach out to me to schedule a consultation today.