Anmarie Hegarty, Marriage and Family Therapist
Anmarie is a licensed marriage and family therapist who specializes in relationship issues. She works with couples who are having difficulties and need to get unstuck, as well as helping couples to make good relationships even better. Anmarie will assist you and your partner in developing positive relationship attributes such as communication skills, trust, honor and respect for differences, mindfulness of each other’s emotional needs, intimacy, healthy individuality within the relationship, enjoyment of each other’s company, and shared meaning and purpose for the relationship. As a couples counselor, she treats both men and women with empathy and fairness and assists them in communicating in a safe and effective manner. Some couples benefit from learning tools or doing homework outside of session. Your couples session will be tailored to the needs of your relationship.

Rosette Schapira, Marriage and Family Therapist
Rosette Schapira is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist specializing in relationship counseling. Clients immediately feel an ease while working with Rosette. Rosette views the relationship, not either individual as her client. Her focus is to help people feel alive and fully inspired. She helps couples and families achieve a deep connection from a place of balance, wholeness and compassion. Trained in mediation and conflict resolution, Rosette has a way of helping couples express their resentments that have built up over time and making the process easier for both parties.

Erin Kuntze, Psy.D
Erin has a comprehensive background and schooling, yet she presents herself as a real person. Both male and female clients find her extremely approachable. Erin received both a master’s degree and a doctorate in clinical psychology from the California Institute of Integral Studies. She practices in our Santa Monica office and specializes in relationships and couples work.

When it comes to helping couples communicate better, Erin coaches her clients on ways to be direct and loving, even when the instinct is to react and defend. For couples who struggle when it comes to talking about sex, Erin has the experience to guide them into talking more comfortably about sexual needs and how to support a happy sex life in a long-term relationship. She is also known for her experience working with multicultural and LGBTQQI relationships.

As couples talk about issues in their relationship, Erin has an uncanny ability to see beyond the surface and get to the heart of the matter. It is this ability that makes her an excellent relationship counselor.

Jaydee Tumambing Hughes, Marriage and Family Therapist
Jaydee is a licensed marriage and family therapist with a collaborative, and facilitative approach with couples and individuals. She believes that by the time couples and individuals come into therapy, they have tried to work through issues and may feel stuck and extremely frustrated. Jaydee strives to assist clients in discovering unhealthy patterns and ongoing themes in their lives that may be brought into their different relationships and choices. In session, verbal and non-verbal communication patterns that may be unfamiliar or unseen to clients, and are problematic are explored and addressed. There are expectations and day-to-day stressors that most clients are unprepared for, whether by themselves or with partners. Discovering ways to “tackle” issues can lead clients to more enjoyable lives.

Jaydee takes on a multicultural and integrative approach, sensitive to the similarities and differences of individuals, with emphasis on creating a safe, therapeutic environment.

Shaney Watters, Marriage and Family Therapist
Shaney Watters is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (MFT) who has been working in the mental health field with individuals, couples and groups since 1997. She believes strongly in respect and collaboration in the therapy relationship, as in all relationships. Shaney’s therapeutic approach includes creating a welcoming space in which clients and therapist can together explore ways to pursue healing and wholeness in relationships with others as well as one’s self.

Within the safe and non judgmental environment the focus will be to examine what is working as well as what is not, in order to identify and build the practice of desired change. The goal of the time together will be to incorporate conflict management skills, opening to alternate perspectives, all the while building meaning, respect, joy, and hope for the future. Every day she feels honored to get to do this work and looks forward to assisting you on your journey.

Reviews from external source like Yelp/Google for our RCC couples counseling
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“Trying to find a good couples counselor can be a daunting task. Our relationship is important to us so we don’t just want your average run of the mill therapist. I stumbled onto the Relationship Counseling Center website and found a large selection of videos about relationships presented by one of the marriage therapists. I love the practical and matter of fact approach, lots of good advice, but most importantly it just seemed like the counselor was a genuine real person. One thing led to another and we made an appointment. Our couples counselor was amazing. We both felt put at easy from the first session and with the help of the therapist started to uncover/get-to the-bottom of our issues. After setting up communication and marriage goals our therapist kept us on track especially if we started to spin off in another direction and wasn’t afraid to stop us and give feedback when appropriate. We didn’t have anything major going on just needed a communication tune up. Our experience was great and would recommend any first timers to therapy to give these guys a try.”
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“Contrary to popular belief, my hubby and I don’t have a perfect marriage, but who does, right? There were/are several issues we needed/need assistance with; one of which was/is a nagging problem for quite some time.

We’ve had several sessions and every time our sessions ended I felt some breakthrough had occurred, no matter how small.

Our couples counselor was very perceptive and caring; he’s straightforward and honest, even if it may sting and I/we appreciate that about him. I appreciate that he allows us to talk to each other, but places boundaries (i.e. no fighting). He gives advice and tips on how to effectively communicate with your significant other (since the main issue most couples encounter is effective or ineffective communication).

Overall, our therapist just gets it. At times I may not convey the message as accurately or clearly as I may want, but he listens so well (guess that’s what he’s paid to do) that he understands and rephrases it and I just nod in agreement because he “got it.” He also knows how to approach us. I’m more sensitive and easily hurt and he handles me accordingly; my DH is different, and approaches/communicates with him accordingly.

The other thing I love about working with our therapist is that he’s goal oriented. He doesn’t want us to rely on him forever, but rather he wants us to achieve our marital goals. In order to do so he gives us a plan, he helps us set up boundaries, he guides us with directions.

I believe our relationship has improved since doing couples counseling. We have fulfilled one goal thus far and there is a couple more to aim towards.

Honestly, my hubby and I have a wonderful marriage, but for several nagging problems that are out of our control. Even if we had the perfect marriage, I would still see do relationship counseling because every marriage deserves a neutral, unbiased 3rd party to just give you a reality check, but also to give each spouse a safe place to communicate and unload feelings without judgment. I’m happy to say that no matter how our session may go on a given day, my husband and I leave the office and “hug it out” and move on with our evening feeling a little bit lighter emotionally.”