TRACY SONDERN, LMFT
"Most of us will have two or three marriages or committed relationships in our adult life. Some of us will have them with the same person." ~ Esther Perel
​Midlife has a way of arriving quietly. You don't always notice it happening until you look up one day and realise the life you built together looks different — and so do the two of you. In any long relationship, there will come a point where one of you changes and the other isn't quite ready to. It can look like growing apart. It can feel like you're not right for each other anymore. ​​​
Learn how to have the hard conversations you've been avoiding.
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Build empathy for each other.
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​Stop feeling stuck in the same argument
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Getting to know who you are now.
Learn how to de-escalate arguments.
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Build friendship and connection.
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Bring back physical and emotional
intimacy.
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When you feel safe enough to slow down and really talk — something interesting happens.The defensiveness starts to soften. The arguments that felt urgent begin to lose their charge. Two people who walked in feeling like opponents slowly remember they're actually on the same team. That shift doesn't happen all at once. But it happens.
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Using the Gottman Method for Couples, we work on what's actually underneath the conflict — the unmet needs, the old patterns, the fears neither of you has said out loud yet. The goal isn't a perfect relationship. It's an honest one, where you both feel seen.
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My goal is simple: I want you to leave with enough understanding of each other, and enough tools, that you don't need me anymore. I'll know I've done my job when you do.
Not Just for Romantic Partners
Some of the most complicated relationships in our lives aren’t romantic. A friendship that has become one-sided. A business partnership where things have gone unsaid for too long. A creative collaboration where the dynamic has shifted and neither person knows how to address it. A family relationship that needs a neutral space to work something out.
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The work is the same. The tools are the same. And the relief of finally having a space to look at it honestly is just as real.
If you’re in a close relationship that isn’t working, whatever kind it is, this is a place to bring it.