Are you feeling
unloved and disconnected?

I'm Macdara MacColl — but please just call me Mac. I'm a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, a Certified Emotionally Focused Couples Therapist, and one of a small number of clinicians in Connecticut who is also an AASECT Certified Sex Therapist. I've also served as an Adjunct Professor at the University of St. Joseph, where I taught graduate students in couples therapy and human sexuality.

I work with accomplished, thoughtful people who have already tried to figure this out on their own — and discovered that insight alone doesn't change the pattern.

My primary approach is Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), a well-researched attachment-based approach that works with the emotional process driving disconnection — not just the argument on the surface. Rather than simply teaching you to communicate more politely, we work with the cycle underneath: what happens when connection feels threatened, how each of you protects yourself, and how those protective moves keep the two of you stuck.

Integrating evidence-based trauma modalities including EMDR and IFS allows me to seamlessly address the pieces of your past that cast a shadow over your present. Echoes of trauma don't define or determine your present relationship, but the past is sometimes lurking at the edges of our present pain.

And as a Certified Sex Therapist, I help couples navigate desire differences, shame, discomfort, or curiosity so they can rediscover sexual play as a source of pleasure and connection. As an inclusive, kink-friendly clinician, I know that whatever your orientation, religious practice, or cultural background, we can explore how to nourish your sexual self in your partnership.