Ekaterina Kapoustina

I love providing support to couples who are in helping professions (nurses, therapists, teachers, doctors, lawyers, first responders, etc.) who are navigating various challenges in relationships and exploring big life decisions that leave them feeling disconnected. Couples, where one or both partners may be in a helping profession, may experience specific challenges around navigating their own relationships, as there is an added mental and emotional toll simply from being in direct contact with others day in and day out. You might be feeling emotionally drained and physically exhausted, like an empty vessel, after spending long days tending to others. The last thing that would be on your mind is to think about the problems in your own relationship. And yet, it’s so natural for us to want to have harmony and love in our most precious relationships. If you struggle reaching out to your partner to ask for support and feel that you’re failing in your relationship, couples therapy can be a great place to help express that need and increase closeness, physical and emotional intimacy, and fun. Disconnection is bound to happen to any relationship; it’s about how you repair after the injury that matters. My goals is to help partners, as a couple and individuals, to experience increased emotional connection and security in their relationships. Regardless of relationship structure (monogamous, CNM/ENM, swinging, etc.), I work with partners to help them expand their ability to share vulnerably and witness their partner and the relationship in a different way. I lean in with non-judgmental understanding and curiosity about who you are, what has shaped you and your relationship, to help you explore the relational dance and help partners turn towards each other, to help you weather the storms of life. Education: MA in Counseling Psychology specialization in Mental Health Counseling