Amy-Noelle Noelle Shih

Amy-Noelle is a Licensed Professional Counselor, Life Coach, Relationship Expert and Author. She specializes in relationship dynamics and personal development. She has almost 15 years of experience working with couples.

Amy-Noelle helps couples resolve the real issues and pain that drive a wedge in their relationship.

“Partners often move into reactive mode when they feel it’s the only way to be heard. It only takes a harsh tone – where a partner anticipates “what’s coming” – for communication to become a self-fulfilling prophecy and character assassination. When partners enter what I call “trigger climate,” they set themselves on a familiar trajectory of armoring up and self-protecting. In flooded states, partners release a surge of stress hormones in the body. This stymies empathy and navigating challenges – with heart. Consequently, partners assume a “you-don’t-get-to-hurt-me” position, inevitably accumulating a crust of resentment and more scar tissue. This perpetual dynamic starves relationship growth.”

Couples therapy can help if you would like to learn how to:

• Experience a deeper connection with your partner

• Engage in loving, respectful communication

• Heal past hurts

• Build trust

• Strengthen the vision for your relationship

• Attune to one another's deeper needs

• Regulate the cycle of conflict and disappointment

• Recover from infidelity

• Feel empowered and aligned with your values

• Work through major differences

• Move on if considering separation or divorce

Amy-Noelle uses the Gottman Method, Positive Psychology, and also draws from Ester Perel’s work, which integrates psychodynamic, attachment, and systemic theories, as well as body-oriented and mindful therapy approaches. She considers the whole person through a holistic lens.

Therapy is conducted in a highly collaborative manner with an empathic, heart-focused directness.