Risa Ganel, LCMFT, and Certified Relational Life Therapist
Honest Talk About Love, Conflict, and Reconnection
Risa Ganel is a Certified Relational Life Therapist and the founder of Together Couples Counseling, where she helps couples trade resentment and roommate syndrome for real communication and genuine connection. She’s a frequent guest on podcasts about relationships, intimacy, and emotional growth, and these conversations are some of the most direct, practical places to hear how she thinks.
Press play on any of them for the kind of insight that can shift how you show up in your own relationship.
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Marriage and Intimacy Tips for Christian Couples with Monica Tanner
A Discussion About Relational Life Therapy with Risa Ganel, LCMFT
"Love in a relationship is great but it only gets you so far. Understanding and being heard is much more powerful. That is part of what builds the passion and connection so you can truly have that “wow, my partner gets me” feeling. "
Monica Tanner helps couples ditch resentment and roommate syndrome and rebuild their communication, connection, and commitment. Risa introduces Relational Life Therapy and how its approach moves couples from merely tolerating each other to loving the life they share.
The Columbia Mom Podcast with Claire Duarte
The Dance of Connection: Breaking Destructive Patterns in Relationships
"Our relationships are what matter most and we’re not taught how to navigate them in healthy supportive ways. Our culture supports rugged individualism and in RLT we aim to shift that. It’s not about what I need, what my attachment style is or what my love language is, it’s about us. "
The ColumbiaMom Podcast features honest conversations with the women raising families and running businesses across Maryland. Risa names the destructive patterns that take hold in so many relationships and shows how a couple can break the cycle and find their way back to each other.
Emotions Untapped with Livia Lowder
Overcoming Conflict: Emotional Intelligence and Techniques for Stronger Relationships
"Every relationship goes through periods of harmony, disharmony, repair, and then back to harmony. That's the ideal. But what often happens is, you end up in dishonest harmony because you don’t have the skills to repair "
Livia Lowder’s show guides listeners to understand and work with their emotions rather than be run by them. Risa walks through how emotional intelligence changes the way couples handle conflict, with techniques you can use in the next hard conversation.
The True You with Paula Burns
Strengthening Our Relationship Skills with Couples Therapist Risa Ganel
"When we say ‘we’re not communicating well’, this means ‘I don’t feel heard or understood.’ A big part of what I help with is learning how to hear and understand our partners when things are not going well and how to speak up in a way that helps preserve the relationship without silencing your own voice. "
Paula Burns interviews women about the journeys that shaped them and the work of rediscovering who they really are. Risa lays out the relationship skills that let a woman stand up for herself and for her relationship at the same time.
We Don’t Deserve Men with Kayla Yoder
Use This Tool to Immediately Stop Toxic Patterns
Kayla Yoder’s show is about shifting the dynamic between men and women from competition to cooperation. Risa shares a practical tool for interrupting a toxic pattern the moment it starts, before it takes over the whole conversation.
Warrior Forward with Kimberly Sweeney Walsh
Relationship Skills Bootcamp with Marriage Counselor Risa Ganel
" Clients ask, “What helps people actually change?" Well, it’s discomfort that makes people change. People have to be uncomfortable enough with where they are to do something different. "
Kimberly Sweeney Walsh’s show helps women push past the limiting beliefs that hold back their health, worth, and mindset. Here, Risa breaks down the core skills behind her Relationship Skills Bootcamp and how learning them changes what feels possible in a marriage.
Close the Chapter with Kristin Boice
How to Create Real vs. Artificial Intimacy with Risa Ganel, LCMFT
Kristin Boice’s podcast helps listeners navigate life’s difficult transitions and reconnect with who they really are. In this episode, Risa and Kristin dig into what real intimacy asks of a couple, and why so many partners mistake comfortable distance for closeness.
Equilibrium Echoes with Alyssa Decker
Identifying Artificial Intimacy
Alyssa Decker’s show explores the tools and insights that help people build healthier, more authentic relationships. Risa explains how to tell real intimacy from its convincing substitutes, and what couples often settle for without realizing it.
Ready to Create a Relationship You Love?
If something in these conversations sounded like your relationship, you don’t have to sort it out on your own. Risa and her associates work in person with couples in Columbia, Maryland, and online across Maryland and Virginia. A free inquiry call is a low-pressure place to start.