EXECUTIVE & PROFESSIONAL COUPLES THERAPY · CALIFORNIA
When career pressure starts shaping your relationship, success can come at a personal cost.
Structured, confidential couples therapy for executives, founders, physicians, attorneys, and professionals navigating demanding careers, recurring conflict, betrayal, intimacy concerns, and limited time together.
EXECUTIVE & PROFESSIONAL COUPLES THERAPY · CALIFORNIA
When career pressure starts shaping your relationship, success can come at a personal cost.
Structured, confidential couples therapy for executives, founders, physicians, attorneys, and professionals navigating demanding careers, recurring conflict, betrayal, intimacy concerns, and limited time together.
GOTTMAN LEVEL III
LMFT #51009
20+ YEARS PRIVATE PRACTICE
FORTUNE 500 BACKGROUND
HIPAA TELEHEALTH · CA-WIDE
What executive & professional couples therapy is about
Build a relationship that can thrive alongside demanding careers.
- Maintaining privacy and trust in a relationship lived under public attention
- Navigating media exposure, rumors, or scrutiny as a couple
- Managing power imbalances when one partner is more publicly visible than the other
- Frequent travel, scheduling pressures, and time apart
- Preserving authenticity and emotional intimacy outside of public roles
“The more you work with her, the more evident it becomes how seriously she takes her role. She is deeply committed to helping her clients achieve their goals and improve their relationships.”
“Very professional and displays extreme sensitivity to difficult issues. Would recommend to a friend.”
SPECIALTIES
What I Do Best
Personalized therapy to help you heal, strengthen relationships, and improve your emotional well-being.
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Couples & Marriage Therapy
- Evidence-based work for couples at any stage — from chronic conflict to disconnection to the brink of separation.
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Affair Recovery & Infidelity Therapy
- Structured recovery from betrayal. Whether you’re deciding to stay or leave, the process is supported and clear.
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Emotional and Physical Intimacy
- Rebuilding closeness and connection when distance has settled in — emotionally, mentally, physically, or both.
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FOR EXECUTIVE & PROFESSIONAL COUPLES
Built for couples where career success and relationship stress are the same story.
Career success can bring opportunity and fulfillment—but demanding schedules, leadership pressure, travel, and high-stakes decisions can leave couples feeling more like colleagues than intimate partners.
With a background as a Fortune 500 analyst, Marina understands these pressures firsthand.
Therapy helps you reduce disconnection and create practical changes that support both your relationship and your ambitions.
What sets this work apart
Firsthand understanding of high-performance professional environments through Marina’s Fortune 500 background
Structured, focused sessions designed around clearly defined relationship goals
Scheduling that accommodates demanding professional calendars
Practical strategies for boundaries, communication, decision-making, and reconnection
Attention to the relationship impact of leadership pressure, travel, money, and career transitions
Confidential telehealth throughout California—no waiting rooms
SERVICES
How I Do It
The steps I take to make sure that you are getting the support you need.
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Discreet, Concierge-Style Counseling
- I offer house calls and on-location sessions at your home, private residence, hotel suite, executive office, or anywhere you feel safest and most at ease.
- For couples who prefer the convenience of working remotely, telehealth sessions are also available anywhere in California, with flexible scheduling that accommodates demanding professional and personal calendars.
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Confidentiality You Can Trust
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All sessions are protected by strict therapeutic confidentiality, based on HIPAA standards, and I take additional care with scheduling, communication, intake processes, and on-location logistics to safeguard your privacy at every step of the way.
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You’ll never have to weigh the cost of being seen against the need to invest in your relationship.
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Tools for Connection in a Public-Facing Life
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Together, we develop practical strategies for staying emotionally connected despite distance, demanding schedules, and the pressures of visibility.
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I may suggest communication rituals for travel periods, intentional reconnection practices, boundary-setting around media and outside influence, or grounding exercises that help you both come back to the relationship as it truly is.
ABOUT ME
Marina Edelman, LMFT
Couples Therapist in California
Marina Edelman is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and the founder of TrueMe® Counseling, a couples and relationship therapy practice serving clients in Westlake Village, Thousand Oaks, and throughout California.
Marina specializes in couples therapy, affair recovery, and relationship repair, drawing on a carefully integrated set of evidence-based approaches:
- Gottman Method — Research-based tools for reducing conflict and building friendship and intimacy
- Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) — Healing attachment injuries and rebuilding emotional safety
- Attachment-Based Therapy — Understanding how early relational patterns shape adult love
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) — Identifying and shifting the thought patterns that fuel disconnection
- AEDP — Processing deep emotional wounds with compassion and precision
Her counseling is best suited for couples and individuals seeking structured, research-backed support for relationship repair, affair recovery, anxiety, communication challenges, and premarital or marriage counseling — in person or via telehealth across California.
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
About Executive & Professional Couples Therapy
Here are some of the most frequent questions we receive about this page.
What is executive couples therapy?
Executive couples therapy is relationship counseling adapted to the realities of demanding professional lives. It addresses concerns such as chronic work stress, emotional disconnection, limited time together, frequent
travel, financial complexity, leadership pressure, betrayal, and difficulty separating professional roles from the relationship.
The goal is not to ask either partner to become less ambitious. Therapy helps couples protect their connection while making sustainable decisions about their careers, responsibilities, and shared life.
How is this different from standard couples counseling?
Executive and professional couples often face pressures that generic communication advice does not adequately address. Sessions consider how demanding schedules, power, money, professional identity, business
ownership, public responsibility, and high-stakes decisions affect the relationship.
Marina’s Fortune 500 background allows her to understand these pressures without requiring couples to spend sessions explaining the basic realities of their professional environments.
Can therapy work with our demanding schedules?
Yes. Scheduling is designed to accommodate demanding professional calendars whenever possible. Telehealth allows couples located anywhere in California to attend sessions without travel or time spent in a waiting
room.
More concentrated options may also be appropriate for couples who cannot consistently attend standard weekly sessions.
Do you offer confidential telehealth sessions?
Yes. Marina provides HIPAA-compliant telehealth to clients located throughout California. Sessions are conducted with careful attention to privacy, communication, scheduling, and the confidentiality standards required
of licensed therapy.
Couples are also encouraged to attend from private locations where both partners can speak openly without interruption.
Do you offer concierge or on-location sessions?
Concierge and on-location sessions may be available depending on location, scheduling, clinical appropriateness, and applicable professional requirements. Sessions may be arranged at a private residence, hotel,
executive office, or another mutually agreed-upon location.
Contact Marina directly to discuss availability and logistics.
Take the first step toward healing and connection
Not sure where to start? Let’s talk.