Helping Charleston Couples Build Stronger, Healthier Relationships

Virtual Individual & Couples Counseling | South Carolina

Love shouldn’t feel exhausting 
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What if love felt like …

  • being able to confide in your partner about your deepest feelings

  • you get to live this life with your best friend

  • secure that your partner will listen to you and make you a priority

  • excited to have sex and physically connect with your partner

  • even doing mundane things together is connecting

  • you have a spark in your relationship, you do date nights that light you up and you’re excited about

  • you can trust your partner to take on their share of the household chores and duties, that you’re an equal team

  • your partner wants to hear about your feelings and connect with you

Love shouldn’t feel like …

  • keeping your feelings inside just to keep the peace

  • feeling alone in your relationship

  • feeling like no matter what you say they don’t take you seriously unless you’re screaming or crying

  • living with a roommate

  • wincing at any touch from your partner because they only touch you when they want to have sex

  • feeling like you only do date nights when you complain about not doing date nights

  • feeling like you have to manage every aspect of your relationship and home life just for it to function

  • fighting for your voice and side to be heard when you’re feelings get hurt

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Meet your therapist

Hi, I’m Katie. I’m a licensed marriage and family therapist and owner of Simple Love Counseling.

My passion is working with individuals and couples who are looking to improve their relationships and understand themselves at a deeper level. Most of my clients are people who are feeling like they are in a rut, disconnected, and anxious in life and relationships.

I use therapeutic approaches designed to get to the heart of what’s going on efficiently and quickly and to help people learn skills for secure connection in relationships.

Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist

Katie Bonanno

Areas of Focus

I work with both individuals and couples. Marriage and family therapy naturally lends a unique lens to using a systemic approach meaning we explore what makes you “you”. Our environment, how we grew up, and our experiences shape us. We then create our own little environment and patterns with the ones closest to us.

Trauma

Communication

Emotional disconnection

Intimacy

Attachment patterns

People pleasing

Anxiety

Resentment

Codependency

Generational patterns

Family of origin

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Explore Our Services

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Couples who play together, stay together

Learn more about how we infuse play into therapy and the added benefits.

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Which Off Campus Attachment Style Are You?

Attachment styles are how we have learned to relate to one another and be in relationship with one another. Which character do you resemble based on your attachment style?