Couples Therapy in Los Angeles

No relationship is perfect. Sometimes couples need help resolving conflict or understanding each other. Couples therapy and marriage counseling are excellent solutions for that.

You are taking a brave step in your relationship. I would be honored to help. If you're ready to start couples counseling, contact me to get started.

Couples Therapy & Infidelity

Infidelity can be devastating in a relationship. But if you're here, I have good news: you're taking a meaningful step towards moving past an affair, hurt, and break in trust.

Once trust is broken, it's not easy to rebuild. Employing proven therapeutic techniques, we can rebuild trust, ease hurt, and improve your relationship for the better.

In couples therapy, we'll create a safe environment where bother partners can be honest about the affair and what led up to it. If you're committed to moving past infidelity, honesty is crucial.

Couples Therapy & Anxiety

Anxiety can change our personalities, behaviors, and lives—this includes how we interact in our relationships.

If you or your partner struggles with anxiety, it has likely played out in your relationship. This might look like irritability, overthinking, sensitivity, outbursts of anger, and more. Since there is no playbook on how to be in your unique relationship, anxiety can run wild—especially when many of us are too ashamed to share our relationship problems with others.

I help you and your partner understand how anxiety plays out in your relationship and ways to understand and cope with it.

Marriage Counseling & Couples Therapy FAQs

People often feel ashamed when facing problems in their relationships, even though they shouldn't. Because of shame, people do not openly discuss their experiences in couples therapy and marriage counseling. During sessions, I'll provide education and a safe space that you might struggle to find elsewhere.

Do we need couples counseling?

In my opinion, every couple can benefit from counseling.

Some couples have more pressing issues but every couple has something to work on or room to improve—whether it's about inlaws, children, love languages, or something else.

If you feel that your relationship could improve or feel that your relationship is urgently in need of help, couples counseling can help you and your partner.

Can marriage counseling heal a broken relationship?

Couples therapy and marriage counseling can repair and heal a broken relationship, although I can't guarantee the outcome of therapy. However, willingness to attend couples counseling is a promising sign both of you are invested enough in your relationship. Relationship repairing requires being vulnerable and discussing some uncomfortable truths.

The more invested you and your partner are, the more likely you are to heal your relationship in therapy.

How do we prepare for our first counseling session?

Other than the logistics of beginning therapy (paperwork, scheduling your session, etc.), there isn't much you can physically prepare. However, mental and emotional preparation for couples therapy is different.

Before your first session, I recommend asking yourself questions like these:

1. What do I want out of couples counseling? What are some of my tangible goals?

2. Am I willing to be vulnerable and honest?

3. What about couples therapy worries me?

4. Am I committed to the process?

Your answers and insights to these questions are great to discuss in your first session.

What do people talk about in couples therapy?

When starting therapy, many people wonder where to start and what they're going to talk about.  This concern adds unnecessary pressure to the process by racking and taxing your brain for things to discuss.

Remember that your couples therapist is a trained professional—they'll guide you through topics to help you get the most out of therapy and improve your relationship.

Generally, you'll discuss things like:

1. Conflict resolution

2. Communication styles

3. Sex, sexuality, and intimacy

4. Children

5. Inlaws

6. Politics, religion, culture, beliefs, and values

7. Lifestyle choices

8. Finances

9. Social life

10. Personalities

11. Your individual past experiences and emotional struggles

Nothing is off the table. When we enter into couples therapy or marriage counseling, we don't just talk about the relationship—we talk about ourselves as individuals. We discuss trauma, formative memories, emotional problems, thought patterns, and more.

Not only will you gain a deeper understanding of your partner and relationship dynamics but you'll also gain a deeper understanding of yourself.

Meet Steven Reigns, a Los Angeles Couples Therapist

My name is Steven Reigns, and I'm a couples therapist in Los Angeles. 

For over ten years, I have helped couples and individuals process and improve issues within their relationships.

My clients at Therapy for Adults appreciate my solutions-oriented approach, although I tailor it to the couples' needs. Working collaboratively, we proceed at a pace that meets you and your partner’s needs.

I have experience working with couples and individuals facing conflict, anxiety, and relationship issues.

You can learn more about my specializations below.