Queer-Affirming Couples Therapy
Couples therapy for Queer relationships that does not make you explain yourselves first.
Maybe you keep having the same fight, feel more like roommates than partners, or are trying to talk about sex, trust, or your relationship agreements without it turning into another painful conversation.
Therapy can be a place to slow down, understand what is happening, and find a way forward together.
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• You are caught in conflict loops and want help understanding what happens underneath them.
• You want to talk honestly about sex, desire, jealousy, agreements, or non-monogamy without being judged.
• Culture, family expectations, coming out, race, language, faith, or gender are part of your relationship story.
• You both want to see whether a more connected, workable relationship is possible
“Couples Work That Doesn’t Assume Anything.”
Most couples therapy was built around one kind of relationship. If you’ve ever spent sessions explaining your identities, defending your relationship structure, or translating your family’s expectations for a therapist who didn’t get it — you already know how exhausting that is. Here, your relationship isn’t a special case. It’s the work I do every day.
Queer-Centered, Always.
Queer partnerships, mixed-orientation couples, and chosen family dynamics aren’t exceptions I accommodate — they’re the center of my practice.
Sex & Intimacy, Included.
As an AASECT Certified Sex Therapist, I hold the conversations most couples therapy tiptoes around: desire, sex, non-monogamy, and reconnecting after distance.
Culture Comes With Us.
First-gen expectations, family loyalty, language, faith, coming-out asymmetries — the cultural forces inside your relationship get named here, not ignored.
Structure Without Judgment.
Open, monogamous, or somewhere in between — we work on how your relationship functions, not whether it fits a template.
Request a Couples Consultation
Couples Therapy
Ongoing weekly or biweekly sessions for partners ready to shift long-standing patterns.
$250 / 60 minutes
Includes: free consultation · relationship assessment · individual check-ins with each partner · collaborative goals.
Ready to start? Schedule a free consultation and we’ll figure out together whether I’m the right fit for your relationship.
Frequently Asked Questions
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It helps when both partners are open to exploring the relationship, but you do not need to agree about every issue before reaching out. The consultation and initial assessment help us decide whether couples therapy is the right next step.
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We begin by understanding what brings you in, the pattern you get caught in together, and what each of you hopes will change. The process includes relationship assessment and individual check-ins with each partner, followed by shared goals for our couples work.
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Yes. I do not treat a relationship structure as the problem. We can work with communication, agreements, trust, intimacy, jealousy, repair, and the practical realities of the relationship you are building.
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Yes. As an AASECT Certified Sex Therapist, I welcome conversations about desire, pleasure, sexual concerns, intimacy after distance, and the places where sex and relationship dynamics overlap.
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Ambivalence is important information, not a failure. We can talk during the consultation about whether couples therapy, discernment-focused work, individual therapy, or another level of support makes the most sense.
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Couples sessions are $250 for 60 minutes. Most couples begin weekly or biweekly, depending on need, availability, and what is clinically appropriate. Therapy is fully virtual for California residents.
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Please share this privately in the consultation or intake. When one partner is afraid of the other or there is active coercion or violence, joint therapy may not be the safest starting point. I will help identify a safer, more appropriate next step.
“The goal isn’t a relationship that looks right from the outside. It’s one that feels honest from the inside.”
— Luis Cornejo, LMFT, Certified Sex Therapist