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Relationships & Family

Couples Therapy

A supportive space to rebuild connection, communication, and trust

Couples therapy can help you move out of painful cycles and toward more honest, connected, and workable ways of being together.

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When This Can Help
  • Arguments feel repetitive, intense, or hard to repair
  • You feel emotionally distant, disconnected, or resentful
  • Trust has been strained and you want to rebuild
  • You want support creating a healthier relationship dynamic
Support May Include
  • Improving communication and conflict repair
  • Understanding the deeper emotions beneath recurring tension
  • Building practical tools for connection, trust, and teamwork
Good Match For

Couples and partners

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What This Support Can Address

A clearer look at what people may be carrying when they reach out for this kind of care.

When every conversation feels tense, unresolved hurt keeps resurfacing, or you feel more like opponents than partners, it can be hard to know how to move forward. Couples therapy creates structure and support for slowing down those patterns and understanding what is happening underneath them.

Our Approach

How we try to make care feel both skillful and genuinely human.

Our therapists work to create a balanced, respectful space where both people can feel heard. We help couples strengthen communication, understand relational patterns, and build more connected responses to conflict and stress.

Therapists Connected to This Work

These clinicians have specialties or treatment approaches related to couples therapy.

Photo of Natalie Watson, Associate Marriage Family Therapist. Natalie is a therapist
        in San Luis Obispo providing therapy services with DeRose Therapy Group

Natalie Watson, AMFT

Associate Therapist

Photo of Marina Canella, Associate Marriage Family Therapist. Marina is a therapist
        in San Luis Obispo providing therapy services with DeRose Therapy Group

Marina Canella, AMFT

Associate Therapist

Photo of Claudia Kraake, Associate Marriage Family Therapist. Claudia is a therapist
        in San Luis Obispo providing therapy services with DeRose Therapy Group

Claudia Kraake, AMFT

Associate Therapist

Photo of Becca Panarra, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist. Becca is a therapist
        in San Luis Obispo providing therapy services with DeRose Therapy Group

Becca Panarra, LMFT

Licensed Therapist