couples therapy & Counseling in Pasadena & Los Angeles

In-Person and Virtual Relationship support during the different seasons of life

Teletherapy

We offer in-person couples therapy and counseling at our Los Angeles office in Koreatown, Highland Park office, and Pasadena office, serving Highland Park, Eagle Rock, Mount Washington, DTLA, Silverlake, South Pasadena, La Canada, La Crescenta, San Marino and the greater Los Angeles area. Virtual sessions are also available for clients in California, Washington, and select international locations via a HIPAA-compliant platform.

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Serving Highland Park, Los Angeles, & Pasadena

couples Therapy

You don’t have to wait to get to the end of a difficult relationship before you start learning how to have a healthy one with a loved one. Maybe you are experiencing emotional disconnection in your partnership, unfairness/imbalance, communication breakdowns, or difficulty trusting again after a past trauma or betrayal. Whether you’re dating, engaged, married, or considering separation, our couples often find that working through their conflict in a safe and nonjudgmental space helps them to gain greater awareness of their relationship dynamics and learn skills to create change.

At Oak and Stone Therapy in Pasadena, Highland Park, Los Angeles office in Koreatown, and virtually online in California and Washington, our experienced couples therapists and counselors offer a therapeutic environment to help couples engage in meaningful conversations that lead to change and discover new possibilities moving forward.

Our couples therapists & Counselors help you and your partner:

  • Rebuild trust and emotional intimacy when connection has worn thin

  • Understand the patterns you fall into together that keep you stuck, and learn how to change them

  • See how your family history and past experiences shape the way you show up in your relationship

  • Clear up misunderstandings and communicate in ways that help you both feel heard

  • Reduce conflict, learn your triggers, and handle arguments in ways that bring you closer

  • Share the mental load, roles, and expectations more fairly

  • Navigate cultural, language, faith, and family-background differences, including intercultural and interracial relationships

  • Work through family expectations and pressure as a team

  • Support your relationship through ADHD, burnout, or demanding careers

  • Find support for your relationship as an LGBTQIA+ couple

  • Get through life transitions such as moving in together, engagement, becoming parents, a career change, separation, or reconciliation

*Offerings also include pre-marital therapy, marriage counseling, discernment counseling, and parenting support.

Frequently Asked Questions

  • Couples therapy helps with recurring conflict, communication breakdowns, emotional distance, trust and infidelity, intimacy, life transitions, parenting stress, and differences in culture, family, or values. Many couples come in when the same fight keeps coming up and they can't find their way back to each other on their own.

  • Yes. We use the terms interchangeably. We work with dating, engaged, and married couples, including LGBTQ+ couples, intercultural and interracial couples, and couples navigating separation, so you don't need to be married to start.

  • Our couples therapists integrate the Gottman Method, Restoration Therapy, and emotionally focused approaches. Together, these help you understand the cycle you get stuck in, communicate without escalating, repair after conflict, and rebuild trust and closeness.

  • Yes. We offer couples therapy, marriage counseling, premarital counseling, discernment counseling, and infidelity recovery in Highland Park, including support for intercultural and interracial couples and neurodivergent couples. Couples at our Highland Park office can work with:

    • Michelle Park, AMFT #165227

    • Sarah Ling, AMFT #165464

    • Elizabeth Oh, LMFT #157153

    • Elizabeth Rhee, LMFT #122155

    • Elizabeth Ku, AMFT #149827

    Associates are employed by Oak and Stone Therapy and supervised by a licensed marriage and family therapist.

  • Yes. Affair recovery is one of the most common reasons couples come to us. We help you slow down, understand what happened, rebuild trust at a pace that's safe for both partners, and decide together what comes next.

  • Discernment counseling is designed for couples where one or both partners are unsure about the relationship. In a few focused sessions, you get clarity on whether to stay, separate, or commit to working on the relationship. Learn more about discernment counseling.

  • Yes. Premarital counseling helps engaged couples talk through expectations, family and culture, finances, conflict, and communication before marriage. Learn more about premarital counseling.

  • Yes. Most of our therapists are Asian and Asian American, and we work with intercultural couples and interracial couples navigating different families, cultures, languages, and expectations. We help both partners feel understood without one culture becoming the default.

  • Yes. Kate Han, AMFT #158365, and Minji Kim, AMFT #150938, offer couples therapy in Korean and English. Nancy Denq, LMFT #146636, sees couples in Mandarin and English at our Pasadena office and online. Associates are employed by Oak and Stone Therapy and supervised by a licensed marriage and family therapist.

  • You can start on your own. Individual sessions can help you understand your part in the relationship pattern, respond differently, and prepare to invite your partner in when the time is right.

  • It depends on your goals and what you're working through. Many couples meet weekly or every other week for several months, and focused concerns may take less time. Your therapist will check in with you regularly about progress and pacing.

  • Our largest couples therapy office is in Pasadena, serving South Pasadena, La Cañada Flintridge, Altadena, San Marino, Arcadia, and Glendale. We also see couples at our Highland Park and Koreatown offices in Los Angeles. Visit each office page for directions and the therapists who work there.

  • Yes. We offer online couples therapy when both partners are located in California during sessions, and Hanna Byeon, LMFT, sees couples located in Washington State. You can join from the same room or from separate locations.

In-person therapy at our Highland office, with nearby offices in Pasadena and Los Angeles Office in Koreatown. Virtual therapy across California and Washington State.