LGBTQ+ Couples & Relationship Therapy in Florida — Online & St. Petersburg

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Why Choose Saltwater Souls for Queer-Affirming Couples Counseling

Your relationship deserves a therapist who respects your identities, history, and shared goals. At Saltwater Souls Counseling, you’ll work with a clinician who lives this terrain and understands what healthy LGBTQ+ connection can look like from the inside. I integrate the Gottman Method, Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), attachment and systems lenses, minority stress and cultural context work, somatic regulation skills, and IFS-informed parts dialogue when helpful. The aim is to rebuild trust, improve communication, and restore intimacy in ways that fit your relationship structure. Secure telehealth keeps affirming care within reach anywhere in Florida, from Tampa Bay to Miami and beyond.

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What We Address

  • Unresolved communication loops and recurring conflict

  • Emotional distance and diminished intimacy

  • Rebuilding trust after jealousy, breaches, or infidelity

  • Designing and renegotiating open or poly relationship agreements

  • Premarital or pre-commitment clarity and alignment

  • Navigating blended families and co-parenting dynamics

  • Coping with minority stress and external pressures on the partnership

  • Reconciling differences in family-of-origin values and culture

  • Addressing desire mismatches, body-image concerns, and sexual fulfillment

  • Inclusive support for other queer couple challenges

Who is this meant for?

All orientations & configurations—monogamous, open, or poly.

Results You Can Expect

Queer couples typically report gentler conflict, deeper friendship, and renewed passion in 8–12 sessions. Gottman framework and EFT bonding exercises help you sustain the gains between meetings.

Frequently Asked Logistics

How I Work with Couples

  • I begin with a complimentary 30-minute therapy session with both partners to determine if we’re a good fit for couples therapy together

  • If we decide to work together after our consultation, we will jump into our first couples session where we collaboratively set therapeutic goals and begin the journey of working together.

  • From the initial couples session, we will then our first individual meetings. I’ll meet with each partner one-on-one to hear your goals, perspectives, and concerns before we sit down together again as a couple

  • I recommend weekly couples counseling sessions, adjusting the frequency as needed based on our progress.

  • Every 6-8 couples sessions, I will again meet individually with each member of the relationship to check in and see how things are going.

Rekindle Connection—Start Today

Whether you’re rebuilding after a rupture or fine-tuning an already strong bond, start with a free 30- minute consult and begin communicating with clarity, trust, and renewed intimacy.