Relationships are not supposed to feel like a constant negotiation. I'm Kirsty, a licensed marriage and family therapist in Maryland specializing in couples, families, and individuals ready to do something different. If you're carrying relationship stress, old patterns, or trauma that keeps showing up, I would love to help.
My approach is practical and collaborative, built around the idea that most patterns in relationships make sense once you understand where they came from. In sessions, we slow down what keeps happening, look at the full picture rather than just one person's role in it, and build concrete tools to shift it. For trauma, I use evidence-based methods that help you process what happened without reliving it. For couples and families, we look at the whole system: communication patterns, old dynamics, what gets in the way of actually feeling close. I draw on solution-focused work too, which means we spend as much time building on what is already working as untangling what is not.
Our first session is a conversation, not an assessment. I will ask about what brought you here and what you are hoping for. You do not have to have it figured out before we meet. Most clients leave that first session feeling like they finally had space to say the things they have been carrying. That is usually a good place to start.
