Couples therapy, relationships and heartbreak support in Beverly Hills
The romantic relationships we choose tend to bring out our oldest patterns and wounds. Our Beverly Hills therapists work with couples who want to reconnect, partners deciding whether to stay, and individuals navigating their attachment styles or rebuilding after a relationship ends. In person and online across California, and affirming of all identities and relationship structures.
People come to us when
- The same argument keeps happening and nothing changes
- They feel lonely inside their relationship
- Trust has been broken by an affair, a secret, or a slow drift
- A diagnosis, a new baby, or caregiving has strained everything
- They’re deciding whether to stay or go
- They’re in the middle of a divorce and barely holding on
- They keep ending up in the same relationship again with a different person
How we can help
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Using Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), we help partners see the cycle they get stuck in, understand the needs underneath the fighting, and rebuild trust and closeness.
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The older hurts that shape how you connect now, whether or not your current partner caused them.
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Support through deciding, telling the children, and rebuilding, including for people who didn't choose it.
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Breakups produce real grief, and it's often minimized because nobody died. It deserves the same care.
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Affirming work with same-sex couples, LGBTQIA+ partners, and people in open or non-traditional relationships.
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Finding out why you repeatedly have “toxic” partners, and exploring what identity or behavior changes look like to build healthier relationships.
How therapy helps
Most couples aren't fighting about what they think they're fighting about. Underneath the fight about the dishes are older needs for safety, closeness, and being understood, and the protective moves each partner makes when those feel threatened. Emotionally Focused Therapy helps you see that cycle as the problem rather than each other.
Working on romantic patterns and romantic attachment is also fulfilling work for both people who are single and who would prefer to not start with couples therapy. Individual therapy often changes a relationship, and it's the right choice when one is seeking to learn new relational patterns.
Clinicians who focus on this
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Mo Mokgobu, MA, APCC
Attachment wounds, couples work, and LGBTQIA+ relationships.
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Liz Doyle, MA, AMFT
Couples therapy using EFT, including same-sex couples and non-traditional relationship structures
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Maria (Mimi) Newman, MA, AMFT
Couples therapy using EFT, divorce, individual romantic relationship patterns and healing from “toxic” relationships.
Common questions
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EFT is an evidence-based couples therapy focused on the emotional cycle behind conflict. Rather than teaching communication scripts, it helps partners understand what each person is protecting and rebuild a secure bond. It has strong research support.
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Start on your own. Individual work changes how you respond in the relationship, which often changes the relationship itself. It also helps you think clearly about what you want.
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Not necessarily. Some couples reconnect, and others use therapy to separate with less damage, especially when children are involved. Both are legitimate outcomes.
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Yes. We work with all identities and relationship structures.
What to expect
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A free 15-minute call.
You tell us what’s going on in your own words. We answer questions about how we work, insurance, and scheduling, and suggest the clinician who fits best.
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Your first session.
During the intake, get the fuller picture: what brought you here, what you’ve already tried, and what you want to be different.
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Ongoing therapy.
Most clients meet weekly at first. We check in regularly on what’s helping and adjust together.