
Novara Intimacy | Relationship TherapyClinical Social Work/Therapist, MSW, LCSW
100 N. Main St, Second Floor, Suite 12
Edwardsville, IL 62025
About
If you feel lonely even while sharing a life with someone else, you are not broken. From the outside, your relationship may look stable, but inside you feel unseen, disconnected, and unsure where you stand with each other. Conversations quickly turn into arguments or silence, and repeated efforts to “fix it” haven’t helped. You want clarity, emotional safety, and a relationship that feels mutual again, not one that survives only because you keep trying harder while nothing truly changes. I offer relationship therapy to women individually and couples together. My Gottman-based approach goes beyond communication skills to examine emotional labor, cultural expectations, and modern stressors, then restructures the relationship so connection, balance, and shared responsibility can return.