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Trusted Couples Counseling in the SW Suburbs of Portland, Oregon

Couples Counseling in Tigard, Oregon for partners who want to feel at home with each other.

Accessible across the SW Suburbs including:

Hillsboro, Aloha, Beaverton, Cedar Mill, West Slope, Garden Home, Raleigh Hills, Tigard, Tualatin, Sherwood, Lake Oswego.

You crave connection, but feel stuck…

It’s 6:30pm and Mike is still at work, missing his third family dinner this week. Mike tries to ignore the knot in his stomach by swiping past the unanswered texts from his wife to check to the Blazers score. He then scrolls his emails while thinking about what to do:

“If I call to apologize, she’ll only be upset just like this morning. Rachel wants me home more, but it seems like I can’t do anything right. I have to work so we can make ends meet. Whatever. It’s probably a ‘stage of life thing’ and all blow over. I’ll get the promotion and she’ll cool down, we’ll have plenty of good times. “


Meanwhile, Rachel* is fuming about all the unanswered texts to Michael. She slides a plate of food in the fridge then takes three more plates to the table where her kids are waiting.

“This is the third time this week he chose work over his family! He left this morning without even listening to me. I know I was harsh. I want him to see his kids need him. I need him. Mike can be so selfish. I keep telling him I’m lonely and exhausted but he tunes me out.”

Rachel sits down to eat with a forced smile at her kids. Amid chatter about screen time and homework, Rachel taps out more texts to Michael:

“Mike, you're not home yet. Dinner’s in the fridge. Your children are going to bed soon…”

“…don’t wake them when you come in… we need to talk… “

*Names and details are composites and do not represent actual clients.

We can all get stuck despite our best intentions.

Similar to Rachel, you might reach out repeatedly in hopes of bringing your partner closer because the relationship means so much to you! Or, like Mike, you keep your feelings inside, hoping the struggle works itself out because you just want the conflict to get better! Each of you may be putting in a lot of effort to manage that feeling of disconnection without a clear sense that the other person truly understands you. When these strategies don’t work, it can feel like you’re alone in the relationship, not realizing you both want the same thing.

Couples counseling can help you find new patterns of deeper intimacy and stronger communication.

Meet Will

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Committed to providing couples counseling rooted in trusted methods, delivered with plaid and jeans sincerity.

No blaming. No labels. No taking sides.

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  • Songs can capture what our hearts try to say...

    Scroll through these lyrics and see if you relate

  • We look at each other wondering what the other is thinking. But we never say a thing. These crimes between us grow deeper.

    “Ants Marching”

    -Dave Matthews Band

  • When I'm without you, I'm crazy. We are made of each other, baby. You, you are my universe and I just want to put you first. And you, you are my universe and you make my world light up inside.

    “My Universe”

    -BTS, Coldplay

  • The faster we're falling, we're stopping and stalling. We're running in circles again. Just as things were looking up, you said it wasn't good enough, but still we're trying one more time.

    “In Too Deep”

    -Sum 41

  • I don't know why you hide from the one, and close your eyes to the one, mess up and lie to the one that you love, when you know you can cry to the one, always confide in the one, you can be kind to the one that you love.

    “Be Kind”

    -Halsey & Marshmello

  • Now and then I think of when we were together. Like when you said you felt so happy you could die. Told myself that you were right for me. But felt so lonely in your company.

    “Somebody That I Used to Know”

    -Gotye

  • You say it in the spaces of our conversation and you don't even know how well I read your mind. So what's it gonna take and will your desperation find a little comfort in mine?

    “We Might Fall”

    -Ghastly & Mathew Koma

  • I walk beside you. Wherever you are, whatever it takes, no matter how far. Through all that may come and all that may go, I walk beside you.

    “I walk beside you”

    -Dream Theater

  • So oftentimes it happens that we live our lives in chains and we never even know we have the key.

    “Already Gone”

    -The Eagles

  • There's a fool in my heart that will never let go. But there is still something that I really want you to know: I always will love you. Forever, I will. And though it's been years since you left me this fool loves you still.

    “Fool in My Heart”

    -Flying Colors

  • Nobody said it was easy. It's shame for us to part. Nobody said it was easy. Nobody ever said it would be so hard.

    “The Scientist”

    -Coldplay

  • When love runs cold, I don't even want to come home Rather feel the chill in my bones than sell my soul When love runs cold, My heart is like 100 below I just want somebody to hold just Take me in and never let go When love runs cold...

    “When Love Runs Cold”

    -FAYBL and Robbie Rosen

  • Go easy on me, baby I was still a child Didn't get the chance to Feel the world around me I had no time to choose What I chose to do So go easy on me

    “Easy on Me”

    -Adele

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