Relationship and Marriage Counseling in Newport Beach, CA
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Relationships
Emma Esper
Marriage and Family Therapist, LMFT, LPCC
I enjoy working with couples and tend to use the Gottman Method to inform my work. This includes working on communicating anger in a constructive manner, increasing friendship and intimacy, removing barriers that create feelings of "stuckness" in the relationship, and increasing empathy and understanding between partners. I have also found attachment work to be beneficial in my work with couples.
7 Years Experience
In-Person in Newport Beach, CA 92660
Online in Newport Beach, CA
Relationships
Emily Echeverria
Marriage and Family Therapist, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, MS
I have training in emotionally focused therapy for families. I work with families who are struggling with disconnection due to difficulty communicating, understanding, appreciating, and accepting each other. I help these families by deepening their awareness of what is causing their own behavior within the family, learn to communicate more clearly and honestly, and practice hearing each other better so that families can become more connected through conflict rather than more isolated. I especially enjoy working with families navigating parent-adult child relationships.
6 Years Experience
In-Person in Newport Beach, CA 92660
Online in Newport Beach, CA
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Dr. Tony Fiore
Psychologist, Ph.D., Certified Anger Management Trainer
I have been a psychologist, marriage therapist and coach for many years and truly enjoy helping people find ways to overcome life challenges in their personal life, workplace, and relationships. I see myself as a teacher as well as a therapist.
43 Years Experience
In-Person in Newport Beach, CA 92660
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Dr. Shelby Kittinger
Psychologist, PsyD
I help couples identify and shift entrenched relational patterns that create disconnection and pain. Using Emotionally Focused Therapy, I guide partners toward understanding one another’s needs, rebuilding safety, and cultivating intimacy grounded in trust and emotional responsiveness.
10 Years Experience
Online in Newport Beach, CA (Online Only)
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Dr. Lyndsay Elliott
Psychologist, PsyD.
Relationship and marriage counseling is not just for couples in crisis — it is for any two people who want to communicate better, reconnect more deeply, and build a stronger foundation before small problems become significant ones. As a licensed clinical psychologist with 20+ years of experience, I work with couples navigating communication breakdown, emotional disconnection, trust issues, conflict resolution, intimacy challenges, and marriage counseling after infidelity. Using cognitive-behavioral therapy, psychodynamic insight, and evidence-based couples therapy techniques, I help partners break reactive cycles and rebuild the relationship they actually want. Telehealth couples therapy available across 40+ states.
21 Years Experience
Online in Newport Beach, CA (Online Only)
Relationships
Dr. Mitch Keil, PsyD
Psychologist, Keil Psych Group
Most couples don't keep having different arguments. They keep having different versions of the same argument.
Over time, relationships develop patterns. One person pursues while the other withdraws. One becomes critical while the other becomes defensive. The subject may change—sex, money, parenting, trust, communication—but underneath it, the emotional pattern often remains remarkably consistent.
Our approach to couples therapy and marriage counseling goes deeper than simply teaching communication skills. We use psychodynamic, attachment-based, and Imago therapy approaches to understand what each partner brings into the relationship, how earlier relationships shape what you expect and fear from one another, and why your partner can sometimes activate emotional reactions far greater than the situation itself seems to warrant.
Interestingly, we are often drawn to people who touch some of our deepest relational wounds. That can create enormous conflict, but it also means that an intimate relationship can become one of the most powerful places for psychological growth and healing.
In couples therapy, we help slow the cycle down enough for both partners to see what is actually happening underneath the anger, defensiveness, withdrawal, or resentment. As those deeper feelings become easier to recognize and communicate, couples can begin having a very different experience of one another.
The goal isn't simply to fight less. It's to understand the relationship you've created together, change the patterns that keep hurting you, and build something more connected, secure, honest, and alive.
16 Years Experience
In-Person in Newport Beach, CA 92660
Online in Newport Beach, CA
Relationships
Piyola Derbarseghian- Sex & Relationship Therapist
Pre-Licensed Professional, MA, AMFT
Relationships are where we seek connection, but they can also be where we feel the most stuck or misunderstood. I work with individuals, couples, and people in non-traditional relationship structures to improve communication, deepen emotional and physical intimacy, and break free from painful patterns. Whether you're navigating conflict, disconnection, or big life transitions, therapy offers a space to reconnect with yourself and your partner(s).
4 Years Experience
Online in Newport Beach, CA (Online Only)
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Provia Psychology
Counselor/Therapist, LMFT, LCSW, AMFT, APCC
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.
9 Years Experience
In-Person Near Newport Beach, CA
Online in Newport Beach, CA
Relationships
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
In-Person Near Newport Beach, CA
Online in Newport Beach, CA
Relationships
John Fry
Psychologist, Ph.D.
I use the approach used by John Gottman which has revolutionized marriage counseling in terms of positive results. He and his colleagues have followed over 3000 couples for well over 30 years and have discovered many helpful keys to strengthening a marriage.
49 Years Experience
In-Person Near Newport Beach, CA
Online in Newport Beach, CA
Relationship and Marriage Counseling therapists in Newport Beach, CA Statistics
Relationship and Marriage Counseling therapists in Newport Beach, CA average 16 years of experience and charge around $201 per session. 98% offer online sessions. The top treatment approaches are Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) (64%), Psychodynamic Therapy (44%), and Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) (40%).
Average years in practice
16 Years Experience
Average cost per session
$201
Accept insurance
35%
Offer sliding scale
47%
Gender ID
| 62% |
Female |
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| 33% |
Male |
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| 3% |
Non-Binary |
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| 2% |
Gender Fluid |
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Session Type
| 67% |
In Person and Online |
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| 31% |
Online Only |
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| 2% |
In Person Only |
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Top Treatment Approaches
| 64% | Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) |
| 44% | Psychodynamic Therapy |
| 40% | Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) |
| 37% | Family Systems Therapy |
| 35% | Existential / Humanistic Therapy |
| 34% | Person-Centered Therapy (Rogerian) |
| 31% | Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) |
Ages Served
| 100% | Adult |
| 58% | Young Adult |
| 56% | Senior |
| 54% | Teen |
| 28% | Children |
Client Focus
| 54% | Women |
| 40% | LGBTQ+ |
| 39% | Men |
| 27% | Christian |
| 24% | Hispanic / Latino |