Real Couples Counseling
Helping couples communicate, connect and navigate the very real challenges, questions & worries that life brings.
Because real life is messy.
Real life is demands, responsibilities, chores. Competing needs, conflicting priorities, struggles to have enough time in the day and enough patience to get through.Real Couples Counseling understands real life and meets people where they are - what can we do today that would help? What do we need most to feel respected? Heard? Supported? Loved?
Because it takes real effort to meet each other.
Things are not going to completely change overnight. But when two people care, want things to feel different and are willing to try something new, the pattern changes. The cycle interrupts. When two people decide they are ready for something new, possibilities open.
because real connection
is worth it.
There is nothing like having a true partner, a loving home base. Someone on your team, who wants to build together. Connection is caring, comfort, support - with space for each of you.
D. Hope Tola, NCC, MA, LPCC
I am a board-certified therapist specializing in couples, relationships and midlife concerns. I created Real Couples Counseling because I believe that couples therapy needs to account for the hiccups, challenges, conflicts and real concerns that we all face. We can love our partners and hate them sometimes. We can want them to be closer and also feel like pushing them away. Real people aren't textbook patterns, we are complex, messy humans longing to connect, to feel seen & understood, and to be loved. Let's be real about what's going on and focus on the changes that could bring couples back together.
