Based in Bethesda, Maryland and Northwest Washington D.C., Tory Joseph offers coaching and counseling to parents, families, couples, and individuals, helping them build healthy and rewarding relationships.
Using well-established, empirically supported theory and strategies, Tory can help you build stronger, more positive connections.
“I can help you create a healthy, loving, and respectful family life.”
Has being a parent recently caused a great deal of stress in your life? Are you struggling to find a balance between your personal, work and family life, or to solve problems in a relationship? Maybe you have a child who is struggling and you are feeling overwhelmed or locked in a power struggle? Are differing parenting styles creating conflict?
A safe place to communicate and build a relationship of mutual respect.
Unpack all the important topics to save your marriage before it starts.
Better understand and resolve challenges in your life.
Parenting doesn’t have to be overwhelming.
As a couples therapist specializing in parenting issues, I often see parents who disagree about how to raise their children. The most common of these disagreements revolve around how to discipline the
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Middle school and early high school stand out in my mind as one of the most difficult times in my life. I had no idea what a challenging time it was for my parents as well! I have been cu
My daughter, Alison and her husband, Tom, just had a baby girl. She was born a month premature and is now about 10 weeks old. They live across the country from me and my husband, so I decided that we
The beginning of the New Year is a good time to think about goals for the year ahead. We can set goals anytime, but these built-in dates on our calendar are helpful. Just as Thanksgiving is a time to
“More than any single factor that we can control, connectedness in childhood is the key to a happy adulthood” says Edward Hallowell in “The Childhood Roots to Adult Happiness”. He cites a comprehensi
In a session I had recently with a couple, a husband told his wife that he wants to help her find peace when she is “off the rails.” He does this by problem-solving and suggesting different ways of lo
“First and foremost, I wanted to thank you for all of your amazing work with us over the last couple years. Your knowledge and guidance, not to mention your incredible care and thoughtfulness was instrumental (and still continues to be) in helping us navigate our relationship.”
“When my wife and I first came to see Tory we had been dating and fighting regularly for years. She gave us the chance to stop and slowly work through the issues that were most important to us. It transformed the relationship, essentially stopped the fights, and we ended up getting married a couple of years later. I would recommend her to anyone.”
“Tory Joseph has given two talks at our school PTA meeting and both have been an overwhelming success. The feedback I get from our PTA members is fantastic and everyone takes away at least one valuable tool to help with surviving parenthood!”
“My wife and I came into counseling after we started a family and discovered our personal relationship was suffering. We found ourselves fighting for space in the chaos. Tory assisted us in acquiring a new balance by introducing the IMAGO techniques and strategies. Over a period of time we worked under Tory’s guidance on a consistent approach to identify each of our needs during stressful situations. The real success came when we learned that the benefits were apparent throughout our relationship. Our communication is genuinely better! Together we have seen dramatic improvement in our marriage and as parents.”
Jennifer Davis, “Covid Christmas: Managing kids’ expectations without turning into the Grinch“, The Washington Post, 14 Dec. 2020.
“I would encourage parents to consider whether it’s really about their own disappointment at this time or their kids’,” says Tory Joseph, a licensed therapist, parenting coach and parenting educator in D.C.
