Couples

Therapy & Coaching

Tend to your relationships

Couples therapy is about getting to the heart of what’s going on by creating a space where each partner is seen, heard, and being tended to.

From dating and pre-marital counseling, to couples therapy throughout any life phase or stage together, our couples therapists are an incredibly warm, welcoming and skilled group of clinicians with extensive training, experience and expertise working specifically with couples to support and help you wherever you may be in your relationship.

There are a number of reasons why couples seek therapy and they often include one of the following:

  • Bettering Communication

  • Resolving Conflict

  • Coping with Stress

  • Mental & Physical Illness

  • Immediate & Extended Family Conflict

  • Pre-marital Counseling

  • Emotional Intimacy

  • Recovering from Infidelity

  • Healing from Betrayal

  • Desire & Discrepancies in Needs

  • Sexual Intimacy

  • Building & Strengthening Healthier Habits

  • Blending or Blended Families

  • Dating

  • Life Transitions

  • Infertility

  • Loss of a Loved One

  • Pregnancy & Preparing for Baby

  • Parenting & Co-Parenting

  • Ambiguity & Uncertainty in Staying Together

  • Uncoupling, Separation & Divorce Support

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Our approach

While each therapist has their own, unique and individual style of therapy, the couples therapists at Tend all incorporate an emotionally-focused, strengths-based, pragmatic and practical approach with couples to get to the heart of what’s going on and uncover some of the deeper issues that could be preventing you and your partner from moving forward.

Our couples therapists incorporate their training and experience with the Gottman Method, family systems and marriage and family therapy, mindfulness and awareness, trauma-informed, affair recovery, shame and vulnerability research through Brené Brown, and so much more.

We will work together with you to identify your specific goals and needs for couples therapy, your wants and desires for your relationship, and navigate this path with you.

Meet Our Therapists

  • Lisa Pisha

    MS, LMFT
    Founder + Therapist

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  • Angela Michalak

    MA, LCPC
    Partner + Therapist

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  • Carrie Thayer

    MS, LMFT- Individual, Family
    and Couples Therapist

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  • Deborah Grizzell

    Individual Adults
    and Couples Therapist

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  • Brooklyn Miller

    Clinical Intern + New Client Coordinator

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We usually see couples together, for the entire 55-60 minute session, but will sometimes suggest working one-on-one with one or both partners for a limited number of sessions.

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Our team is trained in the Gottman Therapy Method

Minimalist workspace with a computer displaying a book cover titled 'Create a Conscious Marriage Workbook' featuring a couple on a rock by a lake and mountains. White chair, file boxes, plant, and vase with greenery on the desk.

Create a Conscious Marriage™

An online course for modern couples created by Tend co-founder and therapist, Lisa Pisha, MS, LMFT.