Marie — Relationships coach

Break the cycle. Rebuild connection.

Start a couples session with Marie — add your partner later

Marie is Verke's relationships coach. She works with the pattern between you — not with a winner and a loser. When two people keep having the same argument, it's rarely because one of them is wrong; it's usually because something underneath hasn't been said. Marie helps both of you say it, and stay hearable to each other while you do.

• We're drifting apart as a couple. Feeling disconnected from your partner is a common challenge in long-term relationships. Life's demands, routine, and time can create emotional distance — recognizing it is the first step toward change.
• Partner communication. Even loving couples struggle to express themselves clearly and fully hear each other. Miscommunications and unspoken feelings are natural parts of any relationship.
• Arguments with partner. All couples disagree. The aim isn't to stop arguing — it's to navigate the arguments in a way that builds understanding instead of eroding it.
• Too little intimacy in relationship. Physical and emotional closeness naturally fluctuates in long-term relationships. Work, health, parenting, and routine all shape it — a dry spell doesn't mean the relationship is failing.
• Different life goals as a couple. It's normal for partners to develop different goals, interests, or priorities over time. Career changes, personal growth, and evolving values can create tension even in loving relationships.
• Healing after breakup or divorce. The end of a significant relationship brings grief, identity shifts, and real practical challenges. Feeling loss, confusion, and even relief can all be part of the same healing.
• Considering separation or divorce. Contemplating the end of a marriage or long-term relationship is emotionally complex — ambivalence, fear, guilt, and uncertainty often live side by side. Having these thoughts doesn't mean you've failed.

Emotionally Focused Therapy works with the repeating cycle a couple gets stuck in — criticize/withdraw, attack/defend — and helps both partners express the softer feeling underneath the loud one. Nonviolent Communication gives you four steps for the everyday hard conversation: observe what happened, name what you feel, say what you need, and make a clear request. Marie holds the ground where both are welcome.

You and your partner can share the same chat with Marie, so you both see what's been said and hear her perspective together. One person can also start on their own — there is real work to do alone, especially when you're trying to understand your part of a pattern before you bring it back to the relationship.

For the full explainers, see Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) and Nonviolent Communication (NVC).

Couples work often happens in the small windows between everything else. Marie supports text chat when typing is easier and phone-call-style voice sessions up to 20 minutes when it's time to actually talk. A summary of each voice session posts back to the shared chat so nothing gets lost, and Marie remembers what you've been working on across weeks and months. Read more about how EFT works.

Your conversations with Marie are end-to-end encrypted. You can sign up anonymously — no email or phone number required — and your 7-day free trial starts at $1.99/week after that. No credit card needed to start.

• Feel disconnected from your partner? Here's what's usually underneath
• The same fight over and over — why couples loop, and how to break it
• How to communicate better with your partner (beyond 'just be open')
• Attachment styles explained — and why they keep showing up in adult relationships