What Brings Couples Here
Specialized couples therapy for the problems that are hardest to solve on your own.
Conflict & Disconnection
The same arguments keep repeating, one partner pursues, and the other shuts down. Therapy helps you see and change the cycle.
Affair Recovery
Rebuild emotional safety after infidelity, understand the injury, and create a relationship in which trust can grow again.
Sex & Intimacy
Address mismatched desire, sexual disconnection, performance concerns, pain, and the emotional bond surrounding intimacy.
Questions Before Booking
1 / What if my partner is skeptical?
Skepticism is welcome. Neither partner has to arrive convinced that therapy will work or comfortable talking about feelings. The work is direct, active, and designed to make sense.
2 / Will you take sides?
No. Both partners need to feel understood. The problem is the cycle that has taken over between you, not one person.
3 / What should we expect?
Sessions are 90 minutes and cost $180. Both partners attend in person at 2830 Mt. Hope Road in Webb City. You do not need to prepare a perfect explanation before coming.
Why Work With Shira?
Specialized Help for the Relationship
Shira Hearn is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist whose practice is devoted to couples. The work follows Emotionally Focused Therapy rather than a diluted mix of approaches, with additional training in sex therapy for couples whose emotional and physical relationships have become disconnected.
The style is direct and actively involved. You will not be left to repeat the same argument while the therapist quietly watches.
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Radically Different Therapy
Couples are the specialty. This is not a general practice that also sees couples. The work is focused on the patterns that keep two people stuck.
Sessions are 90 minutes. These mini-intensive sessions give you time to move beyond the recap and do meaningful work before the session ends.
Skeptics are especially welcome. You do not have to love therapy, know the right words, or arrive convinced it will work. The work is active, direct, and designed to make sense.
You do not need to be “therapy people.” You just need to be willing to see whether something different can happen between you.
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You Don't Need Another Temporary Fix.
Maybe you've been fighting about the same things for years.
Maybe you're technically together, but the relationship feels more like logistics, parenting, bills, and sharing a house than being partners.
Maybe there was an affair.
Maybe trust was broken and you can't figure out how to get back to the way things used to feel.​
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And living like this hurts. Really, really hurts.
​​For your relationship to survive, you need to understand what's happening between you, change the pattern, and build a relationship that actually feels good to be in.
You Need a Therapist Who Can Help You Get the Relationship Transformation You Want.
You’re in the right place.​​
You don't need another place to have the same fight.
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You want to know why this keeps happening. Why you can start out trying to talk about something small and end up angry, hurt, shut down, or not speaking at all. And you want something to actually change.
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That is the transformation you're working toward.
You Still Want to Be Together. You Just Need to Find Your Way Back to Each Other.
You may have forgotten how to communicate without ending up in the same argument, but underneath the frustration, defensiveness, or distance, there is often still a deep desire to be connected, understood, and together. Therapy gives you a way to break the cycle, say what you actually mean, and start experiencing each other differently.