Steven Hanlon
Couples & Family Therapist, LMFT
Practical, attachment-aware therapy for relationships ready to move beyond familiar conflict.
Steven works with couples and families who feel caught in recurring arguments, distance, or uncertainty about how to reconnect. He helps each person slow the cycle down, understand what sits beneath the conflict, and communicate needs without turning vulnerability into blame or withdrawal.
His work is grounded in attachment repair and relational resilience. Steven welcomes partners and family members with different communication styles, identities, and hopes for therapy, and he creates a structure where every participant can be heard while the shared relationship remains central.
Professional Background
Couples · Family · Attachment
Graduate-level training in marriage and family therapy
Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist · OR Lic. 000000
How Steven Works
Sessions combine careful observation with practical rehearsal. Steven helps clients identify the moments when a conversation shifts into defense, practice clearer requests and repair attempts, and recognize the attachment needs that can be difficult to name in the heat of conflict.
He does not treat one person as the problem. Instead, the work focuses on the pattern between people and on building small, repeatable changes that support trust, accountability, and a more flexible way of responding to one another.
Areas of Focus
Couples Counseling
Support for conflict cycles, emotional distance, trust, and shared decision-making.
Family Therapy
Collaborative work with communication, roles, boundaries, and changing family needs.
Attachment Repair
Understanding protective responses and creating safer ways to reach for connection.
Relationship Transitions
Care during commitment changes, separation decisions, parenting shifts, or blended-family adjustments.