About Me
Hi, I'm Dr. Marina Rosenthal, licensed psychologist dedicated to serving couples with high-conflict, messy marriages.
I advocate for my clients’ love stories, even and especially when they feel there is little left to salvage.
I gained relationship expertise through years of training. I earned my PhD in Clinical Psychology from the University of Oregon, where I received extensive hands-on supervision of my couples work. I further honed my skills in the VA system working with veterans and their partners with concurrent and complex struggles such as PTSD, substance abuse, sexual dysfunction, intimate partner violence, and infidelity.
Healing hard relationships is my passion.
I believe…
You deserve help - even if you think therapy cannot possibly work for them because your pain is too deep, your problems are too big, and your patterns are too fixed.
If your relationship is hurting badly, you do not have time to waste. I only provide evidence-based techniques proven to work.
Real partners with real problems can still work together to build a relationship worth staying in.
More About Me
In my free time, I am easily wooed by a good love story and am a voracious consumer of fiction and film about good people finding and maintaining romance, passion, and connection. From a young age, I loved talking to people about their relationships. I even went so far as offering (mostly solicited) relationship advice to my peers on the steps of my high school quad. Thankfully, my education and experience have since refined my techniques!
Raised in Santa Cruz, California, I spent 5 years in Minneapolis, Minnesota before moving to Portland, Oregon with my partner and two children. My therapeutic style is more West Coast than Midwest and is informed by my Jewish identity; I am direct, candid, and slightly irreverent.
