Therapy for Relationships

For couples, polycules, chosen families, relationships that fit the standard mold, and the ones that don’t.

Looking for relationship or couples therapy in Lansing? You’ve found a place where your different relationship structures are seen as equal and as normal as historically typical ones.

Every relationship hits hard patches. The same argument on repeat, distance that crept in without anyone deciding it should, trust that got shaken, or just a sense that you’re not as connected as you used to be. Coming to therapy together doesn’t mean your relationship is failing. It means you care enough to work on it. Relationships that get support, especially early, tend to come out stronger.

Who this is for

We work with relationships of all shapes and sizes. Married couples and dating couples. Polyamorous folks and polycules. Chosen families. Queer and straight relationships. Kinky relationships. Long-term partners and people just figuring out what they want to build. Whatever your relationship looks like, you won’t have to explain or justify its structure before we can get to work. We start from respect for how you love, and go from there.

What we help relationships work on

People come to us wanting to:

• Communicate without it turning into the same fight
• Repair after a rupture, a betrayal, or a hard season
• Rebuild trust that’s been shaken
• Feel close again, emotionally and physically
• Navigate big decisions, transitions, or differences in what you each want
• Open up, restructure, or renegotiate a relationship with care
• Move through conflict without tearing each other down

You don’t need to arrive with the perfect words for what’s wrong. Sometimes “things feel off and we want help” is exactly the right place to start.

How we work

Relationship therapy with us is a space where each person gets heard, not a courtroom where someone gets declared right or wrong. Our therapists help you see the patterns and cycles underneath the conflict, the ones that keep pulling you into the same place, and build new ways of connecting. We draw on well-supported, evidence-based approaches, which research shows help couples lower conflict, rebuild trust, and feel closer. These approaches work for all kinds of relationships, including queer relationships, where they’ve been shown to be just as effective.

And because we’re affirming to our core, we bring particular care to the parts of your relationship other providers might fumble: navigating identity within a relationship, non-monogamy done ethically and intentionally, the weight the outside world can put on a queer or interracial or otherwise “non-standard” relationship, and the specific joys and challenges that come with loving outside the mold.