Risa facilitates relationship health through 2 Day Couples Intensives, Relationship Bootcamps, traditional Couples Therapy, and public speaking engagements. Her gifts blend wisdom with quiet strength and relationship science with empathic connection. She is skilled at being kind and fierce in the same breath, helping clients connect to the truth, transform conflict into connection, and establish the intimate relationships they long for.
In practice as a Couple and Family Therapist since 1994, Risa has served as Treasurer, President-Elect, and President of the Middle Atlantic Division of the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy (MAD-AAMFT). In 2015 she was appointed by Maryland Governor Larry Hogan to serve on the State Board of Professional Counselors and Therapists and served as Chair of the Board from 2017-2020. Currently Licensed in both Maryland and Virginia and Certified in Relational Life Therapy (RLT), Risa teaches clinicians RLT as a Trainer for the Relational Life Institute (created by world-renowned therapist and author, Terry Real), she sees couples and individuals in her private practice, Together Couples Counseling.
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