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.
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
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“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.
