“We were on the brink of separation and talking about how to share custody of our children. With Mark and Sherry’s incredible knowledge and deep understanding of building healthy relationships, we were provided the tools to foster a relationship as teammates rather than competitors. Learning how to use these tools saved our relationship and made it better than we could have imagined. We are tremendously grateful to them for helping us grow as individuals and keep our family together.” Erik & Ashley

Couples Counseling and Coaching

We are both traditionally trained in mental health therapy, and Mark is also a nurse. We have recently shifted our practice to coaching so we can reach a broader population of couples in need. We have had a busy private practice together for 26 years, helping couples and individuals transform their relationships into more deeply loving, wholehearted connections, with themselves and with each other. During that time, we have created a unique, and admittedly fun, approach in which we see couples together, and separately if needed.

When we work together with couples, our different styles complement each other nicely. Mark has a more global perspective, seeing larger patterns and connections, perhaps from his days as an archaeologist? Sherry is more of a detail person, and likes to get into specifics. We like to impart these lessons to our couples, to work with differences, and have them complement one another, instead of letting them get in the way. That’s the richness of life, of relationships—we each have something valuable to add.

In working with couples, we have found our true calling. Helping couples create a more respectful, trusting, deeply loving and cherishing connection gives us a satisfaction unlike anything else we have experienced in our professional lives. We bring into our work what we have learned from other professionals, like Terry Real, John Gottman, Barry McCarthy, Ester Perel, Brené Brown, Harville Hendrix, and Marty Klein, and what we have discovered, and continue to discover, in our own loving relationship.