Couples Therapy & Marriage Counseling · Los Angeles, CA

When love
becomes a
battleground

Specialized couples therapy and marriage counseling in Los Angeles for partners caught in cycles of conflict, blame, and disconnection. Helping you find your way back, to each other and to yourselves.

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Monique Feig Therapy Marriage & Family Therapist  ·  LMFT #150851
PACT Level 2 Trained EFT Trained Trauma-Informed LMFT #150851
PACT Level 2 Trained EFT Trained Trauma-Informed
15+
Years of professional experience
2
Advanced training modalities (PACT + EFT)
2
Languages: English & Hebrew
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Possibilities when patterns finally shift
Couples Therapy

Relationships
worth fighting for...
differently

You came together with hope. Somewhere along the way, conversations became arguments, arguments became patterns, and patterns became walls. This is not a failure, it's a signal.

I specialize in helping couples break out of the negative and destructive cycles that keep them stuck, replacing blame with deeper understanding of one another and reactivity with genuine connection.

Start with a free consultation
01

Pre-Marital Counseling

Build your partnership on a foundation of real understanding, fairness and a shared vision for the future. We explore communication styles, negative cycles of reactivity, family patterns, values, religious & cultural differences and the relational skills that sustain a lasting marriage, before the hard moments arrive.

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High-Conflict Relationships

When every interaction feels like a fight, something deeper is driving the pattern. I help couples slow down the cycle and their nervous systems, understand the underlying triggers, and develop new ways of engaging that reduce reactivity and build safety.

03

Navigating Differences

Different backgrounds, values, communication styles... differences don't have to be dealbreakers. I help couples transform their differences from sources of friction into sources of richness and complementary strength. We prioritize principles of shared power so both partners' needs can be prioritized.

04

Multicultural & LGBTQ+ Couples

With experience working across cultures, languages, and identities, I provide a non-judgmental space where all relationships are honored and understood in their full complexity.

05

Conscious Uncoupling

When a relationship is ending, how you separate matters, not just for you, but for your children, your extended family and for your future. Conscious uncoupling therapy helps couples part with dignity, clarity, and compassion rather than conflict.

Breaking the Pattern

The cycle
of blame

Most couples aren't fighting about what they think they're fighting about. Beneath every argument is a deeper, unmet need. A bid for connection that gets lost in the noise of conflict.

The blame cycle is self-reinforcing: the more one partner pursues, the more the other withdraws; the more one attacks, the more the other defends. Both are trying to feel safe. Neither feels heard.

Therapy interrupts this cycle. We map it, name it, and dismantle it together. We learn more about ourselves and each other, and why we get so activated. We learn new skills, slowing down the cycle, recognizing the triggers, asking to pause, recognizing when we don't have capacity for one another and articulating our internal process.

1

Trigger

An event, small or large, activates one partner's nervous system, creating a sense of threat or disconnection.

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2

Reactive Response

One partner pursues, criticizes, or escalates; the other withdraws, shuts down, or defends, both driven by the same underlying fear.

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3

Disconnection

The argument ends but nothing is resolved. Distance grows. Both partners feel alone, misunderstood, and hopeless.

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The Way Out

By identifying the cycle as the enemy, not each other, couples can pause, regulate, and respond from a place of care rather than fear.

My Approach

Evidence-based,
deeply human

I draw on the most rigorously researched and clinically proven modalities available. Every approach I use has been chosen because it works, not just in theory, but in the lived reality of relationships under stress. My work is somatic, relational, and deeply tailored to the individuals in the room.

P

PACT

Level 2 Trained

Psychobiological Approach to Couples Therapy, developed by Dr. Stan Tatkin, works with the nervous system and attachment biology to help couples become secure functioning partners. I am trained to Level 2, one of the most advanced certifications available in this model.

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EFT

Emotionally Focused Therapy

Emotionally Focused Therapy, developed by Dr. Sue Johnson, targets the attachment patterns and emotional responses that drive relational distress. EFT is one of the most extensively researched couples therapies, with studies showing lasting positive outcomes.

S

Somatic Awareness

Body-Based Work

Conflict lives in the body before it reaches words. I pay close attention to somatic and physiological responses... breath, posture, tension, helping clients access and regulate their nervous systems as part of the therapeutic process.

Trauma-Informed Care

"Trauma is not what happens to us,
but what we hold inside in the absence
of an empathetic witness"

— Peter A. Levine

Unresolved trauma doesn't stay in the past. It shapes how we attach, how we react, how we interpret the people closest to us. In relationships, this can look like overreaction, emotional shutdown, hyper-vigilance, or an inability to trust, even when trust is warranted.

My work is grounded in a trauma-informed lens. I understand how early experiences wire our nervous systems and how those patterns show up in adult relationships, and I know how to help clients gently and safely begin to rewire them.

Complex and relational trauma in individuals and couples

Attachment wounds and how they shape adult relationships

Cultural and intergenerational trauma

Trauma responses that look like "acting out" in couples

Somatic approaches to trauma processing and nervous system regulation

"When this stuck energy is restored to the whole organism, we can begin to live more fully..."
— Peter A. Levine
Monique Feig - Couples & Individual Therapist Los Angeles

Monique Feig, MA
LMFT #150851
Los Angeles, CA

About Monique

Bringing depth,
warmth &
lived experience

Relationships are at the heart of my practice. As a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with a Master of Arts in Clinical Psychology from Antioch University, I specialize in couples therapy, helping partners navigate conflict, deepen connection, and build the kind of relationship they actually want. I also work with individuals who are navigating personal challenges, life transitions, or patterns that feel difficult to break on their own. This includes trauma-informed work with both individuals and couples, exploring how early experiences and unresolved wounds shape the way we show up in relationships today.

Before becoming a therapist, I spent 15 years working in the entertainment and tech industries, and I've also experienced the deeply human work of raising children. These experiences didn't just shape who I am, they gave me a genuine, ground-level understanding of the pressures that creative professionals, couples, and parents face every day. I know firsthand how demanding these worlds can be, and how easily they can strain even the strongest relationships.

Originally from Australia and having built a life across cultures, I also bring a particular sensitivity to the experience of living somewhere far from where you grew up. Navigating a new culture, its unspoken rules, its rhythms, its differences from home, can be its own quiet stressor, and one that often goes unacknowledged. I speak Hebrew, and enough French to make my clients feel at home, and I welcome clients from diverse cultural backgrounds and experiences.

My approach is non-judgmental and non-pathologizing. I believe that the person is not the problem, the problem is the problem. In our work together, you'll have space to examine the problems, patterns, and circumstances that are holding you back, in a way that's collaborative and uniquely tailored for you, at your own pace and without shame.

Training & Credentials

PACT Level 2: Psychobiological Approach to Couples Therapy (Stan Tatkin)
EFT Trained: Emotionally Focused Therapy (Sue Johnson)
MA Clinical Psychology, Antioch University
Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist, LMFT #150851
Trauma-informed practice
Languages: English, French & Hebrew
What I Offer

Services

I work with individuals, couples, and families, bringing the same depth, care, and tailored approach to every person I work with.

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Couples Therapy

For partners caught in cycles of conflict, disconnection, or distance. I take an active leadership role, helping couples build the relational skills needed to create a secure, thriving partnership.

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Individual Therapy

Tailored, relational individual work for teens and adults, exploring the patterns, histories, and stories that are holding you back from the life and relationships you want.

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Family Therapy

Helping families separate themselves from the patterns oppressing their dynamics, building communication, self-regulation, and connection across generations.

Specialties & Expertise
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Trauma & PTSD

Somatic and attachment-informed trauma work, helping you understand how the past lives in your body and nervous system, and how to gently begin to shift it.

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Anxiety & Life Transitions

Navigating change, uncertainty, or a sense that life has drifted from what you hoped for, with compassion, curiosity, and a clear-eyed focus on what you actually want.

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Creative Professionals

With 15 years in the entertainment industry, I understand the particular pressures, identity questions, and relational stressors that creative professionals face.

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Parenting & Family Stress

For parents struggling to balance the demands of modern life, exploring how your own history shapes your parenting, and how to show up the way you want to.

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Cross-Cultural Identity

For those navigating life in a culture different from the one they grew up in, with the particular loneliness, dislocation, and richness that experience brings.

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Teens & Young Adults

Non-judgmental, engaging therapy for teenagers and young adults working through identity, relationships, family dynamics, anxiety, and the pressures of growing up.

Individual therapy $250  ·  Couples therapy $295  ·  In-person & telehealth
 ·  50-minute sessions  ·  Limited sliding scale spots available

Begin

Ready to change
the conversation?

The first step is simply reaching out. I offer a free 15-minute consultation to explore whether we're a good fit, no pressure, no commitment.

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252 N. Larchmont Blvd, Suite 202
Los Angeles, CA 90004

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(310) 402-2833

LMFT #150851