Couples Therapy in los angeles
Renew connection and deepen understanding to build a closeness that lasts.
Attachment-based couples counseling to help you navigate every season—together.
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In Hermosa Beach, West Los Angeles & Beverly Hills
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Online across California
• In Hermosa Beach, West Los Angeles & Beverly Hills • Online across California
At Mother Nurture Therapy Group, we provide gentle care for profound change.
calm conflict
restore trust
rekindle intimacy
When the Relationship You Love Feels More Distant Than Ever
Every relationship moves through seasons, but right now it's hard to find each other. You keep circling the same arguments: money, mental load, intimacy, in-laws. Until someone shuts down or says something they don't mean. Maybe there was a rupture, or small hurts have grown heavy. You're looking for a path back to trust and closeness. To finally feel like a team again.
At Mother Nurture Therapy Group, we know how stress, old stories, and unmet needs can shape the space between you. We’ll help you get beneath the conflict so change can take root. Here, couples therapy is about naming the pattern you’re caught in, understanding why it formed, and learning new ways to reach for one another, especially when it's hardest.
Navigating the complexities of partnership looks different for everyone.
You might notice
Small talks turning into big fights
One partner reaches while the other shuts down
Resentment that keeps building
Feeling unseen, criticized, or like you’re walking on eggshells
Drifting intimacy with less closeness and ease
Ruptures that haven’t healed
Big transitions magnifying old triggers
Loneliness in the relationship, even with love present
You may feel locked in the cycle, but there is a way back to each other. We’ll help you steady hard moments, repair gently, and rebuild trust you can feel.
how we can help
We offer gentle, specialized care for whatever stage you’re in: from dating or newly partnered, to navigating fertility or parenthood, to empty-nesting.
We pair practical skills with deeper healing, so you can ease conflict while rebuilding trust, intimacy, and closeness that lasts.
We draw on attachment-based and psychodynamic therapy to make sense of the pattern between you: what gets said, what goes unsaid, and the softer feelings beneath it. We’ll help you slow things down to practice reaching and responding, share impact, and co-regulate. As safety grows, it becomes easier to communicate needs without blame, pause escalation, and repair missteps.
We’ll also tend to what shapes your relationship—parenthood, infertility or pregnancy loss, cultural or faith differences, trauma histories, neurodiversity, or nontraditional structures—and align support with your values. Over time, small moments of connection take root, trust builds, and intimacy feels more accessible in daily life.
The goal isn’t to erase what happened; it’s to grow the capacity to meet it together, with consistency, empathy, and understanding.
Couples therapy can help you
Communicate with more clarity, in big and small moments
Change the negative cycles that keep you stuck
Repair ruptures and rebuild trust
Express needs and feelings so you feel truly seen
Reignite intimacy and desire
Make aligned decisions about money, fertility, and parenting
Navigate major transitions together: separation, co-parenting, moves, career shifts
Strengthen friendship, everyday ease, and teamwork
Areas We Support
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Communication & Conflict
Criticism/defensiveness cycles, stonewalling, volatility, repair after conflict, fair-fighting frameworks, and pursue/withdraw patterns
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Intimacy & Sex
Desire discrepancies, pressure/avoidance cycles, painful sex after birth or trauma, body image, performance anxiety, rebuilding sensuality and play
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Parenthood & Mental Load
Early parenthood, feeding/sleep decisions, division of labor, resentment, and feeling unseen
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Navigating Separation & Co-Parenting
Communication after separation, parenting plans, healthy boundaries, cooperative or parallel parenting, and blended families
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Infidelity & Rupture Repair
Rebuilding trust and transparency, meaning-making, post-betrayal growth, and deciding whether, and how, to stay
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Fertility, Pregnancy & Loss
Infertility stress, IVF/IUI and surrogacy, pregnancy after loss, different grieving styles, TFMR support, and preparing for baby
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Values, Culture & Faith
Interfaith/intercultural dynamics, extended-family expectations, values alignment, and intentional parenting
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Life Transitions
Moves, career changes, caregiving, illness, NICU, empty nest, retirement, and daily stressors
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Inclusive Relationships
LGBTQ+ couples, mixed-neurotype couples, and ethical non-monogamy/polyamory
GETTING STARTED
Schedule a free call
Share what’s going on and your goals for therapy. Our Care Coordinator will thoughtfully match you with the right therapist, schedule your first session, and set up your secure client portal.
Begin care
In your first session, you’ll share your story, why you’re here, and what you hope will feel different. Together, we’ll start building a path forward.
Heal at the roots
You’ll get practical tools to use right away while we begin connecting the dots from your past to integrate lasting change. Steadiness, connection, and trust in yourself start becoming your new normal.
Prefer in-person or online?
We offer couples therapy in person in Hermosa Beach, West Los Angeles, and Beverly Hills, and via telehealth throughout California.
FAQs
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No. Therapy can be preventive, restorative, or both. Many couples come in to strengthen connection, not just to stop fighting.
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That’s common. We’ll honor each person’s pace and concerns. Our first goal is building safety so both of you feel heard, without blame or pressure.
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We specialize in perinatal and parenting issues and also support couples across life stages: dating, premarital, empty nest, and beyond.
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We move carefully, establishing stability and transparency first. We’ll help you decide whether and how to rebuild, and what repair looks like over time.
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Mother Nurture Therapy Group offers couples therapy at our Hermosa Beach, West LA, and Beverly Hills offices, and via telehealth throughout California. We specialize in supporting couples navigating the postpartum period, fertility challenges, pregnancy, and the identity and relationship shifts that come with becoming parents.
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Yes. We work with couples navigating IVF, IUI, surrogacy, and the relational strain that fertility challenges can bring. We see clients in person in Hermosa Beach, West Los Angeles, and Beverly Hills, and via telehealth throughout California.
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Early signs include feeling more heard in conversations, less repetition of the same fights, and small moments of reconnection. Deeper shifts take longer. Most couples notice meaningful change within a few months of consistent work. Your therapist will check in regularly on how the process feels for both of you.
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The Gottman Method is a research-based approach to couples therapy that focuses on building friendship, managing conflict, and creating shared meaning. At Mother Nurture Therapy Group, our therapists draw on Gottman principles alongside other evidence-based approaches including Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), tailored to what each couple needs.
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Yes, some partners benefit from individual sessions alongside couples work. We’ll discuss if that makes sense for your goals.
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We are a private-pay practice and can provide superbills for potential reimbursement.
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Our private-pay rates reflect clinician training and expertise, and the time we invest in your care. You’ll receive your therapist’s exact fee before scheduling.
Current ranges:
Individual therapy (50 min): $180–$250
Couples therapy (50 min): $200–$300
Contact us for more details and to see what might be most supportive for you.
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We reserve limited sliding-scale spots based on financial need and therapist availability. If a spot isn’t open right now, we can add you to a waitlist or provide referrals.
