Therapy
Dr. Ludin offers therapy for couples and families seeking structured, evidence-based support for relational conflict, intimacy challenges, and life transitions. Her work is grounded in attachment science, systems theory, and empirically supported approaches, with an emphasis on clarity, containment, and meaningful change.
Clients come to this work through different relational entry points; together, we determine the focus that best supports your goals.
Couples & Relational Therapy
Dr. Ludin provides 55- and 90-minute couples and family therapy sessions in which she utilizes Emotion-Focused Couples Therapy, the Gottman Method, and Structural Couples Therapy approaches to best serve each relationship’s needs. Couples describe her work as warm, goal-oriented, and balanced.
Family Therapy & Parent Coaching
Dr. Ludin offers parent coaching and family therapy, as well as adult-child-and-parent reconciliation therapy, drawing on evidence-based approaches such as Structural Family Therapy and Attachment Theory to support families in navigating challenges and fostering healthy communication and connection.
Therapy for Sexual Health
Dr. Ludin provides sex therapy sessions for couples. She uses systemic sex therapy, the psychobiosocial model of sex therapy, Emotion-Focused Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and other evidence-based techniques to address intimacy, desire, and sexual health concerns in a compassionate and supportive environment.
Workshops
Dr. Ludin facilitates workshops centered around relationship health and satisfaction. These meetings offer a collaborative and supportive environment where participants can learn from others, share experiences, and practice skills for building stronger, more fulfilling relationships.
Relationship Hygiene trainings focus upon enhancing relationship skills, improving intimacy, and fostering healthy communication within diverse relational contexts.
Preparing for Parenthood workshopsprovide soon-to-be parents tools and strategies to “baby-proof” their partnership and tackle the first years of parenting in a collaborative, values-aligned way.
Values-Aligned Parenting trainings teach couples effective parenting strategies to create safe, predictable boundaries; protect their children’s secure attachment; and identify the values they most want to instill in their children and within their family culture.
Coaching Services
Relationship Coaching
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Relationship Coaching is a forward-focused, solution-oriented modality that focuses on helping you make actionable improvements in your relationship, communication skills, or overall relationship goals. Coaching is ideal for couples who want to work on areas like communication, navigating transitions, setting goals, or enhancing intimacy — often without delving deeply into past trauma or unresolved emotional issues. It’s less about healing past wounds and more about creating actionable steps and improving current dynamics.
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Couples Therapy and Relationship Coaching serve different but complementary purposes.
Relationship coaching focuses on actionable strategies to improve communication, set goals, and enhance your relationship dynamics. It is more directive as a treatment approach and relies on the couple’s openness to change and desire for direct feedback. Couples who want answers to questions like, “who was right,” “why did they react that way,” and “what can we do now” might prefer couples coaching.
Couples Therapy, on the other hand, is rooted in mental health care, and it’s specifically designed to address the complexities of relational dynamics. In couples therapy, I work with both partners to explore underlying emotional patterns, family histories, and attachment styles that shape how you relate to each other. The goal is to shift entrenched interactive sequences in order to build a foundation for long-term relational health.
In both processes, you are supported by clinical expertise and an evidence-based framework that allows for deep, transformative change.
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As a licensed psychologist, Dr. Ludin offers more than just practical advice; instead, she brings years of clinical expertise to help you understand the emotional and psychological factors that impact your relationship. With over 4,000–5,000 hours of supervised clinical experience, advanced academic training, and ongoing professional development, she is uniquely equipped to offer insights grounded in science and real-world experience. Unlike life coaches, who may lack clinical training, Dr. Ludin can address underlying issues when they arise, providing a deeper, more lasting impact.
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Coaching with Dr. Ludin is ideal if you’re looking to:
Improve communication and connection
Set and achieve specific relationship goals
Focus on actionable, solution-oriented strategies
If you’re dealing with deeper relational or emotional issues, couples therapy may be the better option. Dr. Ludin can guide you toward the right approach.
Executive Team Coaching
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In high-stakes leadership environments, the relationships between C-suite executives are critical to organizational success. Executive coaching for C-suite teams focuses on enhancing collaboration, improving communication, and resolving interpersonal dynamics at the highest level. This coaching isn't just about individual performance—it’s about strengthening the way top executives work together to drive the organization forward.
Through a tailored, relational coaching approach, I help your team identify and address the key interpersonal challenges and opportunities that impact their collective success. Together, we’ll work on improving communication, enhancing emotional intelligence, and aligning leadership strategies to create a more effective and harmonious executive team.
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Dr. Ludin works with executive teams to navigate the complexities of leadership dynamics, including aligning goals, managing conflict, and fostering trust and respect between senior leaders. By fostering stronger, more effective relationships, we create an environment where strategic decisions are made more cohesively, and executive teams are better equipped to lead with confidence, clarity, and unity.
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Executive teams often function well on strategy and execution while struggling with the relational dynamics underneath: unspoken tension between co-founders, a leadership pair whose conflict style has calcified, or a team where disagreement has stopped surfacing in the room and started surfacing in side conversations.
This work may be a fit if:
Two or more leaders are locked in a recurring conflict that's shaping decisions beyond their dyad
Co-founders or partners need to renegotiate roles, authority, or expectations after growth, funding, or restructuring
A leadership team avoids productive disagreement, or handles it in ways that erode trust
Communication breakdowns at the top are cascading into the broader organization
A team is navigating a significant transition such as succession, merger, or rapid scaling, and wants to build relational infrastructure before it's tested
Dr. Ludin’s approach draws on the same relational science I use with couples and families: attachment theory, systems thinking, and structured, evidence-based intervention. Executive teams are relational systems, and the patterns that create gridlock in them are recognizable and workable.
This is coaching, not psychotherapy. It focuses on professional relationships and organizational functioning rather than clinical treatment, and does not constitute a therapeutic relationship.