Create Relationships
Where Everyone Knows They Matter
You can love one another deeply and still feel misunderstood, unimportant, stuck, or miserable in your relationship.
Together, we can transform the patterns keeping you disconnected and build relationships rooted in belonging, authenticity, dignity, and mutuality.
Looking for couples counseling or marriage therapy?
If you've landed here because you're looking for support with a relationship stuck in a cycle of disconnection and conflict, you're in the right place.
While I am not a licensed mental health provider, and this work is not Marriage and Family Therapy or Professional Counseling, my non-clinical approach of Relational Life Therapy may be exactly what finally closes the gap between the relationship you have and the relationship you want.
What if thriving didn't have to come at someone else's expense?
We're surrounded by messages that teach us to think in opposites:
My needs or yours. Freedom or commitment. Boundaries or connection. Individual wellbeing or the wellbeing of the family.
I believe healthy relationships both necessitate and offer another possibility.
Your thriving doesn't require another's diminishment.
Their thriving doesn't require yours.
We can work to create relationships where each person's authenticity, agency, dignity, and belonging matter—and where our wellbeing becomes something we cultivate together.
Not sacrificing ourselves for the relationship.
Not expecting the relationship to meet every need.
Not making everyone equally happy all the time.
Rather, creating ways of being together that support the dignity and aliveness of everyone involved.
And that principle doesn't stop with our spouse or partner.
It extends to our children, chosen family, friendships, neighborhoods, communities, and ecologies—because none of us thrives alone.
Hello! I'm Teri.
Certified Relational Life Therapy Practitioner
Registered Drama Therapist
I have the privilege of helping people discover the truth of their most important relationships—what's not working, what they truly want, and what is going to get them there—and guide them through transforming it.
Relational dynamics captivated me at a young age. Unspoken tensions, escalated arguments, disingenuous remarks, and all kinds of obscure communication and behaviors people used to leverage power, avoid pain, and get needs met confused and hurt me.
But when I found myself enacting the very behaviors I promised myself I never would, I finally began my own relational recovery.
