If communication breakdowns, recurring conflicts, trust issues, major life changes, and feeling disconnected from your partner are leaving you wondering how to move forward, relationship therapy can help.
Ashley Bloom, LPC, can help couples and individuals online throughout Michigan strengthen your connection, repair after conflict, understand relationship patterns, or make difficult decisions about your future.
Every new client begins with a free 15-minute consultation to help you determine the best therapeutic fit.
Relationship Therapy Online Across Michigan
What Relationship Therapy at Sonder Counseling Helps With
Healthy relationships require communication, trust, emotional safety, and mutual understanding. But many couples and individuals struggle with patterns that feel difficult to change.
Relationship therapy can help with:
Having the same arguments and can't seem to move past them.
Struggling to communicate without things turning into a fight.
Feeling disconnected from your partner, even when we're together.
Having a hard time trusting your partner after being hurt or betrayed.
Feeling like you're more like roommates than partners.
Having a hard time expressing feelings or asking for what you need.
Major life changes that are putting a lot of stress on your relationship.
Not being on the same page about parenting.
Struggling to navigate the challenges of being a blended family.
Differences in values, priorities, or future goals are causing tension.
Trying to figure out whether this relationship can be repaired or if it's time to let go.
Who Relationship Therapy Is For
Couples
Every relationship experiences challenges. Even strong couples can struggle during stressful seasons, major transitions, or periods of disconnection.
Couples therapy helps partners slow down difficult conversations, understand each other's perspectives, rebuild trust, and develop healthier patterns of communication.
Individuals Experiencing Relationship Challenges
Relationship therapy isn't only for couples. Individual therapy can help you better understand your relationship patterns, attachment style, boundaries, communication habits, and the ways past experiences influence current relationships.
Individual therapy may be helpful if you're:
Repeating unhealthy relationship patterns
Struggling with trust or vulnerability
Preparing for or recovering from a breakup
Trying to understand your needs in relationships
Working through attachment wounds or past relationship trauma
LGBTQ+ Couples & Individuals
At Sonder Counseling, we provide LGBTQ+ affirming relationship therapy that respects diverse identities, relationship structures, and experiences.
Whether you're navigating communication challenges, identity exploration, family dynamics, or relationship stress, therapy offers a supportive and inclusive space.
How We Treat Relationship Issues
Relationships are shaped by communication styles, attachment patterns, past experiences, stress, and individual needs. Therapy focuses on understanding these patterns while building healthier ways to connect.
Your therapist may integrate evidence-based approaches including:
Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT)- EFT helps couples understand emotional patterns beneath conflict, strengthen attachment, and rebuild feelings of safety and connection.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)- CBT helps identify unhelpful assumptions, communication patterns, and reactions that contribute to relationship conflict while developing healthier responses.
Gottman-Informed Couples Therapy- Gottman-based approaches focus on improving friendship, communication, conflict management, emotional connection, and long-term relationship satisfaction.
Attachment-Based Therapy- Attachment approaches explore how past experiences influence the way we connect, communicate, and respond to closeness or conflict.
Individual Therapy Approaches- For individuals working through relationship concerns, therapy may incorporate ACT, mindfulness, trauma-informed care, or somatic approaches depending on your goals.
What Makes Our Approach Different
Relationships improve when people feel understood instead of blamed.
Our therapists create a space where each person's perspective can be explored with compassion and honesty. We help clients move beyond cycles of criticism, avoidance, defensiveness, or disconnection by identifying what is happening beneath the conflict.
Rather than focusing only on problems, therapy also helps couples and individuals recognize strengths, rebuild connection, and create relationships that feel healthier and more fulfilling.
We provide LGBTQ+ affirming care and welcome clients from diverse backgrounds and relationship experiences.
Meet Your Relationship Therapist
Other Sonder Counseling therapists may also support relationship concerns when they overlap with anxiety, trauma, ADHD, autism, grief, depression, or major life transitions.
Ashley Bloom, LPC, – Anxiety, Depression, Trauma, relationship Therapist
Ashley helps individuals and couples navigate relationship challenges, communication struggles, life transitions, anxiety, and emotional connection.
Her approach is warm, collaborative, and focused on helping clients better understand themselves and their relationships. Ashley works with couples to improve communication, strengthen connection, and develop healthier patterns together.
We offer:
Online Therapy Across Michigan
Secure telehealth appointments are available throughout Michigan for clients who prefer online support.
Cost & Insurance
We accept most major insurance plans, including Aetna, Anthem, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Blue Care Network, Blue Cross Complete, Priority Health, UnitedHealthcare, UMR, Meritain Health, Allied Benefit Systems, GEHA, and Medicare Part B. We also accept HSA and FSA cards.
Oftentimes, couples counseling is not covered by certain insurance plans, so we verify your specific benefits before your first session so there are no surprises.
Stronger Relationships Start With Understanding
Every relationship goes through difficult seasons. Conflict, distance, and misunderstandings don't have to mean the relationship is beyond repair.
Therapy can help you understand each other more deeply, communicate more effectively, rebuild trust, and create a stronger foundation for the future.
At Sonder Counseling, we're here to help you build healthier connections with yourself and with the people who matter most.
Frequently Asked Questions About Relationship Therapy
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Relationship therapy helps couples and individuals improve communication, understand relationship patterns, resolve conflict, and build healthier connections.
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No. Many couples begin therapy before problems become severe. Therapy can help strengthen communication, deepen connection, and prevent recurring issues from becoming larger challenges.
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Yes. Therapy can provide a structured space to process hurt, rebuild trust, improve communication, and determine the path forward after betrayal.
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Yes. Individual therapy can help you understand relationship patterns, improve communication skills, explore boundaries, and work through past experiences affecting current relationships.
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Sometimes. Insurance plans often cover family therapy, but not couples counseling specifically. We can talk about your options in your 15-minute consultation.
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Yes. Secure telehealth appointments are available for couples and individuals anywhere in Michigan.
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Yes. Individual therapy can still be helpful when only one partner participates. You can work on communication, boundaries, relationship patterns, and your own emotional well-being.
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If conflict, distance, communication problems, or unresolved hurt are affecting your connection, therapy can provide support and tools to help you move forward together.