Anna Burke
Couples and family therapist
Collaborative relationship therapy for clearer communication, stronger trust, and meaningful repair.
Anna Burke works with couples and families who care deeply about one another but feel caught in conflict, distance, repeated misunderstandings, or difficult transitions. She creates a balanced space where each person can feel heard without turning therapy into a search for who is right or wrong.
Her work helps clients slow down recurring interaction patterns and understand the needs, fears, and protective responses underneath them. Anna brings warmth and structure to conversations that may have become too charged, avoided, or painful to navigate alone.
Education & Training
Couples · Gottman Method
Graduate-level training in couples and family therapy
Licensed marriage and family therapist · OR Lic. 000000
Her Approach
Sessions focus on identifying the cycle rather than blaming the people inside it. Anna helps clients practice clearer requests, listen for meaning beneath defensiveness, and respond to moments of disconnection with greater steadiness.
The process is practical and collaborative. Clients leave with language and experiments they can use between sessions, while also making room for the deeper histories and attachment needs that shape how closeness, conflict, and repair are experienced.
Areas of Focus
Couples Therapy
Support for recurring conflict, emotional distance, trust concerns, and relationship transitions.
Family Communication
Structured conversations that help family members hear one another and respond more effectively.
Conflict and Repair
Tools for interrupting escalation, taking responsibility, and rebuilding connection after rupture.
Life Transitions
Relationship support through parenthood, caregiving, relocation, loss, and changing family roles.