Layoffs rattle a household — they shake your sense of security, strain intimacy, and trigger money conflicts. This Portland- and Silicon Valley–focused guide breaks down why job loss hits relationships so hard and how couples therapy can help you stabilize, reconnect, and map your next steps – plus it includes a free 20-minute consultation.
Job loss doesn’t have to pull partners apart. This guide shows how to lower defensiveness, regulate together, and start the first money talk without panic. Small rituals restore safety so connection can lead again whether you’re in Portland or Silicon Valley.
Understand the 5 levels of intimacy and how couples therapy helps you move from surface talk to emotional closeness with practical skills for communication, trust, and repair.
Intimacy in marriage is more than physical closeness—it’s emotional connection, trust, and mutual understanding. This guide shares 10 practical skills—empathic listening, vulnerability, affection, conflict repair, gratitude, presence, sexual communication, and more—to help couples deepen closeness, rekindle passion, and strengthen their partnership at every stage.
Micro-cheating often hides in everyday moments—a text, a glance, a secret message. But when does it become emotional infidelity? This post looks at the quiet ways closeness can shift and the questions every couple should ask before trust begins to fade.
Porn addiction can quietly erode emotional intimacy, trust, and connection in relationships. In this article, Azizeh Rezaiyan, LMFT, explores the psychological, neurological, and relational impacts of porn addiction and how individual and couples therapy can help partners heal, rebuild trust, and restore genuine closeness.
