Online Relationship and Marriage Counseling in Irvine, California CA
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Ryan James Carroll
Therapist, AMFT, APCC
I support couples in deepening their connection and addressing underlying conflicts using present-moment awareness and Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT). Whether rebuilding trust or improving communication, we focus on creating secure, meaningful relationships.
3 Years Experience
Online in Irvine, CA
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Dr. Mazmanyan and Associates
Psychologist, Ph.D
Our practice specializes in relational work with individuals and couples. We work through the lens of EFT and help couples understand each other in new ways. To see the problem as the problem, not each other as the problem. In a gentle yet firm approach, we help you cultivate safety and understanding.
11 Years Experience
Online in Irvine, CA
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Shadi Souferian
Psychologist, Psy.D
We offer research-based, integrative therapy for individuals with relationship issues and couples seeking to improve their relationships. We provide pre-marriage and marriage counseling. And also work with couples who have chosen to end a long-term relationship and wish for a conscious, amicable separation.
26 Years Experience
Online in Irvine, CA
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Micha Noble, MA
Pre-Licensed Professional, AMFT
With couples, we emphasize good communication skills as part of the foundation of any relationship and utilize our training and experience to help couples break negative cycles and see themselves as being on the same team, rather than as adversaries as they work through specific issues that are a challenge to having a healthy and fulfilling relationship.
5 Years Experience
Online in Irvine, CA
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Brad Byrum
Marriage and Family Therapist, MA, MBA, LMFT
I am a relationship therapist. I help couples in relationship distress. Many of the couples I work with come to therapy feeling lost in conflict cycles which they don't understand and desperately want to change. I understand how much courage it takes to reach out for help and to let another person get inside your relationship, especially when you are feeling hurt, discouraged, angry, or humiliated. If you are searching for a safe place to explore what's not working in your relationship, and support in creating solutions, please contact me.
I realized early in my clinical practice that I wanted to focus on couples therapy. In addition to many hundreds of hours working with couples in distress, I have pursued training specific to couples therapy, including advanced training in both Emotion Focused Therapy and the Gottman approach. I am truly passionate about helping couples heal and flourish.
Please know that no matter what you bring to couple therapy, I will meet you with compassion. I will help you explore what isn’t working in your relationships and why. We work together to understand what you want and need and to identify the changes you want to make. Together, we create solutions that work for you.
10 Years Experience
Online in Irvine, CA (Online Only)
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Lauree Berger Turman
Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW 22044, LCSW 098456-01
Emotionally focused Couples Therapy guides us to find safe, comforting ways to be with each other. Whether a Pursuer or a Withdrawer, with my help you will find your way back to each other.
31 Years Experience
Online in Irvine, CA
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Ellen White
Life Coach, Life & Relationship Coach
Combining my experience as an Imago relationship facilitator, a life coach, a wife, mom, daughter, sibling and friend, I work with individuals, couples and families to create better connection with each other. I help each person learn the skills, tools and awarenesses needed to have meaningful conscious relationships both at home and at work. I have been involved in the self-help world for 25 years and never have I found a better path to becoming our best self than through the journey of creating healthy relationships.
25 Years Experience
Online in Irvine, CA
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Abigail (Abi) Zarate Ramsay
Pre-Licensed Professional, Marriage and Family Therapist Trainee, Professional Clinical Counselor Trainee
I work with couples and partners on communication, conflict, trust, intimacy, and life transitions, helping you understand patterns and practice new ways of relating.
0 Years Experience
Online in Irvine, CA (Online Only)
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Phillip McCulley
Marriage and Family Therapist, MA, LMFT, CSAT
I work with couples and individuals who want support strengthening their relationships or navigating ongoing challenges within them. This includes married couples, long term partners, LGBTQ couples, and people in non traditional or non monogamous relationships. I believe healthy relationships are built on trust, communication, and emotional safety, and that there is no single right way for a relationship to look.
In therapy, I help partners better understand each other’s needs, improve communication, and address patterns that lead to conflict or disconnection. This may include working through issues related to intimacy, boundaries, infidelity, or differences in values and expectations. I offer an affirming and respectful space where all identities, relationship structures, and experiences are welcomed without judgment.
Whether your goal is to repair and strengthen your relationship or to gain clarity about its future, therapy can help you move forward with greater understanding, honesty, and connection.
22 Years Experience
Online in Irvine, CA
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Erin Kennedy
Therapist, LPCC
Your relationship doesn't need to be on the verge of collapse to benefit from some extra help & attention. Every single relationship--no matter how "healthy" it seems--comes with its challenges, and many of us aren't taught how to navigate them.
6 Years Experience
Online in Irvine, CA
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Dr. Ingrid Solano
Psychologist, PhD
I have over a decade of expertise in conceptualizing and treating struggling interpersonal and intimate relationships. Through a honed lens of social constructionism, I focus on understanding and meeting the unique needs, meanings, and values of each relationship. Every relationship is unlike any other. This stance promotes authentic curiosity and explores how we make meaning together. Meaning and action are closely interwoven in our relationships, and each member of the relational context influences the culture and landscape of the interpersonal experiences within. In therapy, we collaborate in creating a new way of relating that allows the rediscovery of empathy for each other in these contexts, and resolves troubling patterns of communication and differences in expectations that negatively impact understanding, connection, and value...
I believe relationships and context matter. Research shows that relationship distress causes problems in mental health, work, children, and even your own physical health. Yet, healthy relationships protect you from stress and help you thrive.
I believe in using relationship therapy that works. I practice evidence-based therapy, which means I use therapeutic practices that have been studied and supported by empirical research studies.
I work with clients to improve their interpersonal functioning both within relational contexts (i.e., couples, families), as well as with individuals who would like to focus on their past, present, and future interpersonal interactions. Clients explore the relational impacts of experiences such as rejection sensitivity, feelings of codependency, attachment concerns, life transitions, divorce, trust, shame, self-esteem, assertiveness, and the impact of dating in the digital-age (i.e., feeling ignored, insecure, ghosting, text communications).
Unfortunately, most people don't have access to effective help for their relationships nor have they been taught what healthy relationships and communication look like. Because of this, I also prioritize increasing access to couple therapy by offering telehealth, evening and weekend scheduling, and lower-cost options that are tailored to Client needs and resources.
I strive to understand your goals, help you communicate and form these goals explicitly, and reach them effectively. I have worked with couples, families, parents, Veterans, adolescents, and individuals on strengthening their relationships and interpersonal skills. I have expertise in working with LGBTQIA+ relationships, sex therapy, and increasing physical and emotional intimacy between partners who seek nonjudgmental therapeutic space and openness to non-traditional relationships (i.e., polyamory, open relationships, play partners, swingers, friends with benefits (FWBs), BDSM etc.). I work with couples/relationships and individuals addressing pornography consumption, kink, and all manner of consensual play. (See additional relational competencies in the ‘diversity’ sections and relationship based ‘services.’) I often employ a mixture of Integrative Behavioral Couples Therapy and Emotion Focused Couples Therapy when working with intimate partners. I have an extensive background in Family Systems modalities as well, including Gottman Method, Structural Family Therapy, Narrative Therapy, Family Systems, and others.
There are several forms of relational therapy you can engage in:
Couple Therapy and Therapy with Romantic Partners
Family Therapy
Therapy for Friends or Coworkers
Relationship Therapy for Individuals (just you!)
Relationship Education
Relationship Coaching (for just you or you and your partner(s))
Premarital Coaching
15 Years Experience
Online in Irvine, CA
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Life After Birth
Marriage and Family Therapist, LMFT
Lexi Berard, AMFT and Rebecca Stevens, AMFT both specialize in working with couples transitioning into parenthood. They are both trained in Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT).
13 Years Experience
Online in Irvine, CA
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New Beginnings Christian Counseling
Marriage and Family Therapist, MA, LMFT
Healthy relationships require connection, communication, and understanding—but even the strongest partnerships can face conflict, distance, or unresolved wounds. In therapy, we help couples and individuals explore patterns, improve communication, rebuild trust, and deepen emotional and spiritual intimacy. Using How we Love and evidence-based strategies and Christ-centered guidance, we work together to strengthen bonds, resolve conflict, and cultivate a relationship that is resilient, loving, and aligned with your values. Whether you’re preparing for marriage, navigating challenges, or seeking growth in your partnership, therapy provides a safe space to heal, connect, and thrive together.
15 Years Experience
Online in Irvine, CA
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Ken Howard, LCSW, CST - GayTherapyLA.com
Licensed Clinical Social Worker, MSW, LCSW, CST
Ken taught the Couples Therapy course for graduate MSW students at USC, as well as having over 30 years experience providing couples therapy and relationship coaching, with a specialization in gay male couples and gay male polycules. He has an additional clinical services Certification in Consensual Non-Monogamy and Polyamorous Relationships/Families from the Sexual Health Alliance. He is an AASECT (American Association of Sex Educators, Counselors, and Therapists) Certified Sex Therapist, trained under David Ley, PhD, Heather McPherson, LMFT, and Michael Vigorito, LMFT, of the Sexual Health Alliance. He has been with his partner for over 20 years in 2022, and was one of the first 18,000 couples to be married in California when California legalized marriage equality in 2008.
34 Years Experience
Online in Irvine, CA (Online Only)
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Anat Sideman
Marriage and Family Therapist, JD, MA, LMFT
There is nothing quite as wonderful as a secure, romantic, committed love relationship. Yet even in the most loving couples, the nature of our past attachments together with the stress of daily life, can erode intimacy and trust and expose insecurities, jealousy, defensiveness, anger, sexual difficulties, disappointment and pain. As your couples’ therapist, my goal is to create a safe space where you can each feel heard and learn to better understand your relationship dynamics so that together you can restore trust and create positive change.
11 Years Experience
Online in Irvine, CA
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Barbara Jaurequi Counseling
Marriage and Family Therapist, MS, LMFT, MAC
Your marriage or primary relationship should be your safe place - the place you go to get away from stress, get recharged, and find comfort. But when your marriage is the source of your stress, you can feel lonely and trapped. When communication breaks down and trust is compromised, it may seem like the situation can't be fixed. But if both parties are motivated to make the kinds of changes necessary to save their relationship, incredible things can happen. Your relationship can go from miserable to meaningful and satisfying. My specialty is teaching partners to talk to one another with kindness, compassion, patience and respect. Marriages almost never end because the partners don't love each other any more. Their marriages end because the partners can't work out their differences. That's where a third party, a counselor, can really be helpful. Let me help you find each other again. Don't lose hope before giving counseling a try.
17 Years Experience
Online in Irvine, CA
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Stuart Kaplowitz / Serene Pathways Counseling
Counselor/Therapist, MFT
Sometimes, it is not what we say but how we say it. We may also miss valuable bits of information our partner shares, especially when we are not as calm and focused. The goal is never a perfect marriage but a relationship that continues to learn, grow and thrive
33 Years Experience
Online in Irvine, CA
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Theo Kuczek
Marriage and Family Therapist, MA, MFT #123769, CPT
We are a social species. We need human connection. Healthy human connection. Relationships can be a place to foster growth as individuals and as a unit. Finding the right words to communicate your experience and learning to hear others languages is critical to having satisfying and meaningful relationships.
15 Years Experience
Online in Irvine, CA
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Russell Wilkie
Marriage and Family Therapist, MFT
Relationships are difficult. It takes many very unnatural behaviors to create a high-quality relationship. Improving your reactions to your partner is the most important aspect and, since it is the only thing you can control anyway, this is your work. Whether it's in a couple’s session or you do the work individually, you will need to improve yourself and your reactivity and become a better you. Too many couples enter my office and expect me to change their partner because they want relief from their negative interactions. I will always gently steer things back to what you can do to make things better. My style is solution oriented, where I will give you all the tools I can in order to reduce conflict and increase connection, making a better relationship.
34 Years Experience
Online in Irvine, CA (Online Only)
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Shauni Kawelo
Pre-Licensed Professional, APCC
I specialize in working with individuals and couples navigating challenges in relationships and marriage. Whether it’s communication difficulties, trust concerns, or feeling disconnected, I support clients in understanding the patterns that impact their relationships. Together, we build healthier ways of communicating, strengthen emotional connection, and create a clearer sense of partnership. My approach is collaborative and balanced, helping each person feel heard while working toward meaningful and lasting change.
2 Years Experience
Online in Irvine, CA
Irvine is one of the wealthiest and most planned cities in the United States — anchored by UC Irvine and home to the regional headquarters of dozens of major corporations — with a therapy community shaped by the intersection of high-achievement academic culture, tech and finance sector burnout, and a large East Asian population that brings distinct cultural dimensions to help-seeking and mental health. The city's majority-minority population — with Chinese, Korean, Indian, and Iranian communities among the most prominent — drives strong demand for multilingual therapists who can work across multiple cultural frameworks. Hoag Hospital and the UCI Health system provide institutional mental health resources, with a well-established private practice community serving Irvine's planned residential villages. UCI's clinical psychology training program supplies a significant number of therapists to the broader Orange County ecosystem.
Relationship and Marriage Counseling therapists in Irvine, California Statistics
Relationship and Marriage Counseling therapists in Irvine, California average 16 years of experience and charge around $203 per session. 100% offer online sessions. The most commonly treated issues are Relationship and Marriage Counseling (100%), Anxiety or Fears (75%), and Depression (70%).
Average years in practice
16 Years Experience
Average cost per session
$203
Gender ID
| 62% |
Female |
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| 32% |
Male |
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| 3% |
Non-Binary |
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| 3% |
Gender Fluid |
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Session Type
| 68% |
In Person and Online |
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| 32% |
Online Only |
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Top Specialties
| 100% | Relationship and Marriage Counseling |
| 75% | Anxiety or Fears |
| 70% | Depression |
| 64% | Trauma and PTSD |
| 54% | Stress |
| 50% | Self Esteem |
| 50% | Loss or Grief |