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A loving marriage: two partners holding hands while walking together on a wooded path

Marriage Counseling

What Makes a Healthy, Lasting Marriage

Picture the couple who’s been married forty years and still likes each other. Not just loves, in the dutiful, obligated way people sometimes mean it. ...

Marriage Counseling

Signs Your Marriage Is in Trouble

Most people picture a marriage ending with one loud, unmistakable moment: an affair discovered, a fight that finally goes too far, someone packing a bag. ...

Marriage Counseling

Marriage Counseling During Separation: Is It Too Late?

Separation is usually understood as a decision already made: a soft landing on the way to divorce, the quiet part of an ending that’s already ...

Counseling for cheating: a couple sitting apart during a therapy session with their counselor taking notes

Marriage Counseling

Marriage Counseling After an Affair

You want to know if it’s over. That’s the real question sitting underneath every logistics question you actually ask in a first session: how many ...

Couple fighting: two partners standing back to back in tense silence after an argument

Marriage Counseling

How to Stop the Cycle of Fighting in Your Marriage

Same fight. Different day. Different starting point, too: the dishes, the calendar, something said in the car. But somewhere around minute two, both people recognize ...

Communication in marriage: two partners talking openly over coffee at home

Marriage Counseling

How to Improve Communication in Your Marriage

Ask a couple why they came in, and communication in marriage is usually the first thing named, though what that actually means often stays fuzzy. ...

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Couples Therapy

Trust Building Exercises for Couples: What Actually Works

There is a particular strangeness to relearning trust with someone you have loved. The exercises feel too small for the weight of what you are ...

Couples Therapy

Therapy for Trust Issues: What the Work Actually Involves

Most people who struggle to trust their partner are not struggling with their partner. They are struggling with something older — a nervous system that ...

Woman seated alone looking out over water wrapped in blanket, representing the solitary process of healing after infidelity — Orpen Therapy Seattle

Couples Therapy

How to Heal from Being Cheated On: What the Process Actually Looks Like

The discovery tends to reorganize everything. Not just the relationship — the past, the sense of what was real, the understanding of who you are ...

Couples Therapy

Couples Therapy After Cheating: What the Process Actually Involves

Most couples who enter therapy after infidelity are not sure they want to stay together. They are sure they cannot keep doing what they have ...

Man seated alone at table looking out window, representing self-contained avoidant attachment style in relationships — Orpen Therapy Seattle

Couples Therapy

How to Fix Avoidant Attachment: What Changes It and What Doesn’t

The person who pulls away when things get close is not, usually, someone who does not want closeness. That is the part that tends to ...

Woman reaching toward partner on couch representing anxious attachment pursuit in relationships — Orpen Therapy Seattle

Couples Therapy

Anxious Attachment Style in Relationships: What It Is and What Shifts It

The text goes unanswered for forty-five minutes, and something in the body shifts before the mind has named what is happening. There is a tightening, ...

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Individual Therapy

How to Be Assertive Without Losing Yourself in the Process

Notice who, in most groups of friends, family, or coworkers, ends up deciding where everyone eats. It’s rarely the person with the strongest opinion about ...

Boundaries in a relationship — couple sitting together on a couch facing a window, Orpen Therapy Seattle

Couples Therapy

Boundaries in a Relationship: What They Actually Look Like

Here is something that doesn’t add up on the surface: the couples who seem most at ease with each other — the ones who finish ...

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Individual Therapy

When to See a Therapist for Anxiety

There is a particular kind of exhaustion that comes from trying to outthink your own nervous system. You already know the breathing exercises. You’ve read ...

Individual Therapy

AI Layoffs, Mental Health, and What Happens to Identity When Work Disappears

There is a specific quality to the disorientation that follows a tech layoff. It does not feel like disappointment. It feels like the context in ...

Woman sitting on mountaintop at sunset reflecting on anxiety recovery — Orpen Therapy Seattle

Individual Therapy

Recognizing Positive Changes in Anxiety Recovery

AAnxiety recovery is rarely a single moment of resolution. It tends to arrive quietly, through small but unmistakable shifts in how you move through your ...

Couples Therapy

Rediscovering Playfulness in Intimacy

Something subtle tends to happen in long-term relationships. Not conflict. Not disconnection. Just… life. Careers expand. Calendars fill. Responsibilities multiply. The days become organized around ...

Sex Therapy

Introducing Your Partner to Kink

AA little nervous laughter. A question you have practiced in your head a dozen times. The hope that they will meet you with curiosity instead ...

CEOs & Executives

How Do You Handle Stress and Work Under Pressure?

How do you handle stress and work under pressure? Most people answer that question with a list of things they’re supposed to do — breathe ...