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Marriage and Family Licensed Psychotherapy
Couples, individuals, families, and workshops.
Therapy Specialties & Services
Each of us is the sum of our experiences in life. The secret is discovering how those experiences interrelate. I offer professional counseling in the areas described below.
Codependency & Love Addiction Counseling
Both Love addiction and Codependency is also known as relationship addiction. Trying to get identity and self worth from a person. This could also include to a child or adult child, friendship, coworkers,sibling and not necessary only in romantic relationships.
A codependent relationship often begins with one person putting their partners needs about all else- including their own needs, interests, and independence.
By learning the signs and stages of a codependent relationship, you can identify if you might need to break a codependent pattern. The most important thing to know is that you can break the cycle of codependency
While striving to meet their partner’s needs with a sense of desperation, the partner who exhibits codependent behaviors often depends on their loved one to the extent that it can feel like a love addiction.
Codependency as a pattern of unhealthy relationships. Codependents make another person their higher power, leading to power struggles, resentment, addictions, and/or difficulties with intimacy. Individuals who struggle with codependency have difficulty loving themselves, using adequate self-protection, understanding their identity, practicing self-care and moderating themselves.
Codependency is certainly an element of love addiction, but not all people who are codependent are love addicts. For the love addict, the markers of codependency that are most notable are low self-esteem and poor self-care habits.
This therapy focuses on recovering from emotional immaturity due to relational trauma.
Love & Relationship Counseling
Healthy relationships require more than communication skills. They require an understanding of the deeper emotional patterns that shape how we attach, protect ourselves, and respond to conflict. Many of the struggles couples face are rooted in attachment patterns developed early in life.
In my work with individuals and couples, I help clients understand how anxious and avoidant attachment styles often create a painful pursue–withdraw cycle. One partner may feel intense anxiety about losing connection and work harder to repair or hold the relationship together. The other partner may respond by shutting down, withdrawing, or creating distance in order to feel safe. Over time, these patterns can lead to resentment, emotional disconnection, and codependent dynamics.
With over two decades of experience as a licensed marriage and family therapist, I specialize in helping clients recognize these patterns and shift them. My approach focuses on helping people understand the emotional injuries beneath their reactions, develop stronger emotional regulation, and build healthier ways of connecting that do not require sacrificing themselves or controlling the relationship.
In our work together, we focus on:
Understanding attachment styles and relational patterns
Breaking cycles of pursuer–withdrawer conflict
Healing codependent dynamics and restoring personal boundaries
Strengthening emotional safety and trust
Creating more secure and balanced relationships
My goal is to help clients move beyond reactive patterns and develop relationships that feel stable, respectful, and emotionally secure.
Parenting & Family Counseling
Dysfunctional caregivers do not respond appropriately to children’s five natural attributes of value, vulnerability, imperfection, dependency, and immaturity. Instead these caregivers either ignore or attack children for the very essence of who they are, creating an intense experience of shame in the children. Inordinate shaming happens to children when they lose contact with the sense that they are adequate and have value from within, even when making mistakes, having needs or being immature. . . .
Children are naturally innocent, inexperienced, naïve and believe that their caregiver can do no wrong. But in fact, caregivers often attack or attack or abuse children for having the normal traits of imperfection, dependency and immaturity. As a result, the children lose their own sense of value (since they can’t see that the fault might lie with the caregivers). Also the fact that abuse is occurring means the parents aren’t demonstrating boundaries, so the children don’t develop their own boundary systems properly.
Robyn loves being able to blend therapy with parenting tools.