Couples & Marriage Therapy
Move beyond the argument on the surface. Understand the cycle underneath, rebuild trust, and find your way back to each other.
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RELATIONSHIP · SEX · INDIVIDUAL THERAPY · COACHING
Healing happens between.
Secure connection is the cornerstone of mental health. And you can create it.
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The relationships that matter most can also hurt the most.
Are you feeling unloved and disconnected? Maybe sex has become a minefield or a distant memory. Or you can't get past the past — and your partner doesn't know how to help. Possibly nothing is dramatically wrong. You simply know that an important part of your life could feel more alive.
As human beings, our brains are wired to expect the presence of caring others. When that connection breaks down, your whole system feels it. The attachment-based, sex-positive, and trauma-informed therapies I practice are among the most rigorously researched in existence. In working with hundreds of couples, I've had the immense privilege of helping people discover how secure connection can transform their relationships with their partners, and even themselves. Let's see if I can help you.
WHERE WOULD YOU LIKE TO START?
Sex Therapy
Desire differences, avoidance, shame, pain, curiosity, changing bodies and changing relationships. Sex can become a source of pleasure and connection again.
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Individual & Trauma Therapy
Attachment-informed therapy, EMDR and IFS can help you understand old patterns, process difficult experiences, and relate to yourself and others differently.
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Private Couples Coaching
Intensive, structured work on connection and intimacy — without the therapy framework. Available to couples anywhere, including those outside Connecticut or who prefer a coaching context.
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MEET MACDARA MACCOLL, LMFT
Relationship & Sex Expert.
I'm Macdara MacColl, but please just call me Mac. I'm a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, Certified Emotionally Focused Couples Therapist, and AASECT Certified Sex Therapist. I'm also trained in EMDR and IFS and have served as an Adjunct Professor at the University of St. Joseph, teaching graduate courses in couples and family therapy and human sexuality.
I love working with thoughtful, accomplished people. You may be very good at understanding problems—and still find that insight alone hasn't changed the relationship pattern you're caught in. My job is to help you experience something new.
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"Absolute best marriage counselor we've ever seen."
MY APPROACH
Evidence-based. Tailored for you.
EFT
Emotionally Focused Therapy gets underneath the argument on the surface to the attachment needs driving it. In clinical research, 70–75% of distressed couples recover through EFT — with gains that hold years after treatment ends.
Sex Therapy
AASECT-certified work with desire, intimacy, shame, and the full range of human sexuality — approached with curiosity, not judgment.
EMDR + IFS
Two of the most effective trauma approaches available. For the hard things you've been through that keep showing up in your relationships and your body.
MADISON, CONNECTICUT
In person on the Connecticut shoreline. Online throughout CT.
85 Wall Street, Madison, CT 06443
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READY WHEN YOU ARE
Let's see if we're a good fit.
The first step is a free 15-minute phone consultation. Tell me a little about what's bringing you in, ask your questions, and get a feel for how I work.
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