Alignment Sessions: A Guided Path to a Stronger Partnership
When you’re a woman in a same-sex relationship, finding a therapist who understands the nuances of your lived experience matters. In this space, you won’t need to justify or explain your relationship. We begin from shared understanding and focus on strengthening what you already have.
Every relationship moves through seasons of disconnection.
Perhaps you feel as though you’re speaking different languages.
Perhaps small issues escalate more quickly than they used to.
Perhaps life transitions have left you slightly out of step.
Alignment Sessions are designed to help you slow down, understand the patterns between you, and build practical tools for reconnecting.
How This Process Works
This is structured, short-to-medium term work grounded in Gottman Relationship Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy principles.
Across our sessions, we:
Phase 1 – Map the Pattern
Identify the recurring cycle showing up for each of you and the emotional needs underneath it.
Phase 2 – Strengthen Communication & Regulation
Learn and practice structured dialogue, de-escalation tools, and conflict repair skills.
Phase 3 – Reconnect & Realign
Clarify shared values, agreements, and practical steps that support long-term partnership.
This is deliberate, reflective work. I facilitate the process carefully and will often slow conversations down to ensure both of you feel heard.
This Work Is Best Suited To Couples Who:
- Are committed to remaining together.
- Are open to self-reflection.
- Are willing to practice structured communication outside sessions (aka - do the homework).
- Are each in (or willing to pursue) individual therapy where deemed necessary.
- Value steady, growth-oriented work over quick fixes.
Important to understand before booking:
Alignment Sessions are not crisis intervention.
I do not work with relationships involving active violence (physical or emotional), untreated addiction, ongoing undisclosed affairs, or where one partner has already decided to leave. I also don't work with couples where one is not interested in their partners perspective.
My Role
I will not take sides or determine who is “right.” (But I will call something out when I see it, if necessary.)
My role is to help each of you understand your own responses, communicate clearly, and recognise the pattern that pulls you apart.
Both perspectives usually make sense once we slow them down.
If you’re ready to understand your relationship more deeply, and to take responsibility for your part within it, this work can be powerful.
If you sometimes wonder about the safety of your relationship, please have a look through the information on this page.
