We’ve all had it happen. Everything is going well and then you or your partner says something that makes you snap. The other day I asked my husband to drop a sweater off at my office. We live nearby and he was happy to do it. My office building is flanked by two driveways, one is ours and the other belongs to Starbucks. Suddenly I looked up to see him in the Starbucks driveway with a fence dividing us. He was irritated by the situation and I was trying to grab the sweater bef

Something I see a lot of in my practice is what happens when one partner loses their career while the other becomes the breadwinner. Here in Los Angeles this is happening with particular intensity right now. The entertainment industry has taken a real hit and creatives are feeling it in ways that go far beyond the financial. For some couples, both partners were working in the industry and one has seen the writing on the wall and pivoted to a new career so the bills can contin

Most people think of couples therapy as something you do with a romantic partner. But some of the most painful and complicated relationships in our lives aren’t romantic at all. They’re friendships that have quietly soured. Business partnerships under strain. Creative collaborations where the dynamic has shifted and nobody knows how to talk about it. A relationship is a relationship is a relationship. The same patterns that show up between romantic partners, the power imbalan