Your marriage doesn't have to wait until they're older.
I'm Samantha Severin, a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist. I work with parents who are deep in the trenches of raising little ones — exhausted, stretched thin, and quietly worried about what's happening to their relationship in the meantime.
Sound familiar?
You're not failing. You're in the hardest season of parenting.
- You talk logistics all day and never actually talk
- The same argument keeps circling back in different clothes
- One of you is touched out, the other feels shut out
- Date night keeps getting cancelled — and it's been months
- You're good parents who miss being a couple
- You love each other and want to protect this before it erodes
The format
Ninety minutes, because you already gave up the sitter.
Worth the childcare
When getting out of the house is its own project, a 50-minute session ends right as the real conversation starts. Ninety minutes makes the trip count.
Patterns, not incidents
We look under the argument about the dishwasher at the cycle driving it — the protests, the withdrawals, and what each of you is trying to protect.
Practical and protective
You'll leave with repair that actually landed, plus small rhythms that keep your marriage and each of you alive inside a busy family.
Also part of my practice
Foster & Adoptive Couples
Marriages carrying trauma, big behaviors, agency stress, and the particular exhaustion of parenting a child whose story began before they came home.
Explore foster & adoptive support →Speaking & Church Training
Talks and trainings for churches and ministries on marriage in the young-family years, trauma, attachment, and caring well for foster and adoptive families.
Explore speaking & training →The thread through all of it
Healing happens in relationship.
Couples in the young-children years often arrive apologizing — for how long it's been, for how small the issues sound. Nothing about it is small. The way you two are doing is the ground your kids are standing on.
My clinical work draws primarily on EMDR and attachment-based approaches. I keep my practice focused so the couples I work with get depth rather than breadth.
For couples who want it, Christian faith is welcome in the room and can be thoughtfully woven into our work. For those who don't, the care is exactly as attentive.
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