Compassionate Couples Therapy
in Sacramento :
Specializing in Relational
Distress and Disconnection
for Midlife Marriages
You know how to run a household, a career, a family. What you haven’t had time for is each other.Midlife doesn’t have to mean drifting apart-it can be the season you finally choose each other on purpose.
You can find care here for your worries, care that is multi-dimensional and hormone-informed, trauma-informed, ADHD informed, and life stage-informed. You are at a threshold, and you’re worthy of relational wellness that registers the challenges of your everyday life, but is rooted enough to fly.
It’s time to remember the unicorn chapter. When you’re naviating seasons of change like perimenopause and menopause in midlife, anxiety and stress makes sense, but they don’t have to become a permanent dial of your nervous system. Let’s name the places of anger, desire discrepancy, body changes, and friendship struggles. Let’s build a container where you will come out with greater confidence, clarity, and connection.
We will undercover your deepest gifts and longings for love. I’m here to support, and to provide a safe place to explore the rhythms of repair.
at the threshold:
Before the specialized couples therapy that I invested in
that was rooted in self compassion, hormone-informed and life-staged informed:
-my unique somatic stress toolbox was low
-my frequent worries were not being soothed
-I was stressed about anxiety affecting my relationships, communication, or intimacy
- I over-relied on old coping techniques
-I lacked confidence in be-friending my anxiety in a way that supported my most authentic self.
After the specialized couples therapy that I invested in
that that was rooted in self compassion, hormone-informed and life-staged informed:
-my unique somatic stress toolbox was stocked
-my worries were regularly were being heard, understood, and reassured
-my relational anxiety was met with clarity.
-I stopped over-relying on old coping techniques and increased my psychological flexibility
-I committed and practiced be-friending my anxiety in a way that supported my most authentic self.
Hello, I’m Cara, a licensed therapist and a devoted student of the human heart. I journey with people towards the gifts of their imperfections, when adaptation is the name of the game.
I’ve spent the last seven years specializing in hormone-informed and life stage- informed care. I support individuals and couples to thrive and grow during perimenopause, menopause, and discernment. I am an ADHD-informed clinician and welcome highly senstive people and neurodivergent partners to live their most authentic lives in the context of interdependence.
I’m committed to helping folks manage relationship stress and anxiety with compassion, and to teach skills of recognition for when your negative interactional patterns take hold and when your anxiety tries to boss you around.
Curiosity is the the name of the game.
Therapy with me will help you honor your chapters of change and help you to bring curisoity and compassion to yourself on a regular basis. This is a threshold to prioritize your growth during life’s unique stages.
It’s time to embrace your own leap years and embrace the opportunities that this time of life can bring.
