Online couples therapy in English for American couples living abroad. 60-minute sessions via secure video.
What to Expect
Moving abroad changes a relationship. The partner who initiated the move carries guilt; the one who followed carries resentment. Old patterns that were manageable at home become unbearable when your entire support system is gone. The same argument keeps happening, but now there's nowhere to retreat to.
Most couples come when the same argument keeps happening in different forms. The topic changes: money, parenting, sex, resentment. But the underlying pattern stays the same. Couples work isn't about deciding who's right. It's about understanding why two reasonable people keep ending up in the same painful place.
How Online Couples Therapy Works
Both partners join the same secure video call. Sessions are 60 minutes, long enough to get past the surface. Longer sessions are available at pro-rated rates. I don't take sides, assign homework, or teach communication techniques. I track what happens between you in real time: who shuts down, who escalates, what triggers the shift. Then I name it so you can both see it.
Most couples find that the fighting decreases once you can see the cycle you're caught in. It's not about who's right. It's about what keeps happening and why neither of you can stop it alone.
This is different from what therapy platforms offer. You're not matched with an available couples therapist from a roster. You're working with one person who learns how you two operate together, tracks what shifts over time, and is available across sessions, not starting over each time. Most of my couples work with me for several months, some considerably longer. If you move countries, you keep your therapist.
Who This Is For
Expat couples where the move shifted the balance of the relationship. Couples who keep having the same fight in different forms. Partners who feel more like roommates than a couple. Cross-cultural couples dealing with different expectations about family, money, or roles. Couples where one person is ready to leave and the other wants to try.
If you're in different cities or one partner travels frequently, online couples therapy works especially well, you both join from wherever you are. No waitlists, no language barrier, no session limits.