- Status
- Short waitlist — worth asking
- Sessions
- In person (Fairview office) · Virtual (secure video)
- Typical openings
- Weekdays, daytime
- Fee
- $185 · 50-minute session · $210 couples
- Direct-billing plans
- Meridian Group Plans · Cascade Benefits
- Languages
- English · Portuguese
Free 15-minute intro call first — no commitment.
Couples & Family Therapist
Renata Silva, MS, LMFT
she/her
“Couples rarely have a communication problem. They have a moment where they stop feeling safe — and it has a pattern.”
Renata has spent fifteen years with couples in every season: newly together, long married, deciding whether to stay, learning how to leave well. She is trained in emotionally focused therapy and treats the argument itself — not either partner — as the problem to outsmart.
She also sees individuals working on relational patterns: the pleaser, the vanisher, the one who always dates the same person in different clothes.
Works with
How Renata works
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Emotionally focused therapy
For couples: slow the argument down and find the longing underneath the protest.
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Psychodynamic therapy
Understand the patterns underneath — how your history shows up, uninvited, in your present.
Training & credentials
- MS in Marriage & Family Therapy, Rivermont University (fictional)
- Externship + core skills in Emotionally Focused Therapy
- Discernment counselling training
