R. Gumm Counseling Group, PLLC

Individual Therapy Sometimes the patterns we experience in relationships begin long before the relationship we’re currently in. I also offer limited individual therapy for clients interested in understanding themselves with greater curiosity, honesty, and compassion. Our work may explore relationships, attachment, identity, life transitions, spirituality, burnout, or the ways you’ve learned to protect yourself emotionally. I’m especially drawn to working with people who are: * Brave enough to look honestly and compassionately at themselves * Willing to engage both inside and outside of therapy * Curious about the patterns shaping their relationships * Willing to risk growth as they experience safety * Interested in living with greater congruence, courage, and love Weekly availability is limited. --- Couple's Therapy You Don’t Have to Keep Having the Same Fight Most couples don’t struggle because they don’t love each other. They struggle because, over time, they become caught in patterns designed to protect the relationship or themselves—but those same patterns can begin creating more conflict, loneliness, and distance. One partner may push harder to be heard while the other shuts down. One may become critical while the other becomes defensive. Or both may gradually stop reaching for each other altogether. Eventually, the pattern becomes the problem. Emotionally Focused Therapy helps us slow that pattern down and understand what’s happening underneath it. Rather than simply trying to communicate better, we work toward creating a relationship where both partners can feel safer being known, understood, and responded to. Our work may include: * Identifying the relationship pattern that keeps repeating * Understanding what happens emotionally for each partner * Recognizing the deeper fears, needs, and longings underneath conflict * Learning to reach for one another differently * Creating greater emotional safety and responsiveness * Strengthening connection during difficult seasons of life --- Intensive Options are Available, please contact for more information. --- I’m Rebekah Gumm, Ed.S., a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor and trained Emotionally Focused Therapist working toward certification. I approach therapy from an attachment-based, relational perspective. That means I’m interested not only in what is happening, but in what’s happening underneath it. What makes you reach? What makes you retreat? What happens inside you when the person you love doesn’t respond in the way you hoped? And what have each of you learned to do when connection doesn’t feel safe or certain? Rather than simply teaching communication techniques, I help clients slow these moments down, understand them with greater compassion, and begin experiencing themselves and one another differently. My style is warm, direct, curious, relational, and experiential. I believe meaningful change asks us to be honest about ourselves while also experiencing enough safety to risk doing something different. Outside the therapy room, I’m a wife and mom who appreciates good coffee, music, books, and the ordinary moments that make life rich. Life inevitably contains both delight and suffering. I believe some of our most meaningful growth happens when we’re able to meet both with greater courage, curiosity, and connection. ⸻ Is This the Right Place for You? You don’t need to have the perfect words for what’s wrong. You may simply know: We love each other, but this isn’t working. We keep having the same fight. I miss how we used to feel. I don’t know how to reach my partner anymore. Something needs to change. Those are good places to begin. We’ll start with a consultation to talk about what’s happening, what you’re hoping for, and whether weekly couples therapy or an intensive seems like the best fit. You don’t have to solve the relationship before coming to therapy. You just have to be willing to become curious about what’s happening between you.