Are you sick of being single?

Does dating feel like a painful, never-ending process?

Are you frustrated in a relationship that feels stale?

 

Quit Kissing Frogs is the website and podcast for women who want to date better, meet the right guy, and enjoy the love life they’ve always wanted. Written and hosted by a therapist with clinical experience coaching couples and individuals through relationship struggles, this is dating advice that actually works.

Romantic relationships can be exciting and rewarding, but they can also can be challenging, confusing, heartbreaking, and downright maddening. I know this because I’ve worked with many women who were frustrated with their love lives at various stages of the journey.

I also know this because I’ve been there.

When I was single, I experienced many of the same frustrating dating challenges that face the women I work with now. I kissed my fair share of “frogs” (and then some), and I heard more than my fair share of terrible dating advice that only led to more heartache and discouragement. Through my dating experiences, I learned that the most effective advice is often the advice that’s hardest to hear, and changing my dating life for the better meant changing my mindset and my habits…changes that often required some discomfort along the way.

But as I changed the way I approached dating, my dating life changed. Not only did I meet (and marry) a man who was even better than anything I’d hoped for before, I saw firsthand how much my own life changed when my dating life improved. It was the struggles I experienced - and overcame - in dating that eventually inspired me to turn my clinical focus to relationships and working with individuals and couples who want to address concerns in their romantic relationships.

Whether single, dating, or married, everyone faces some struggles in their love life. Finding the right man for you and sharing an enduring partnership, lifelong commitment, deep soul-level connection, and shared values and vision for life is more than worth the challenges along the way. These struggles, like most things in life, are much more bearable when you have trusted people in your corner to help you sort through things and figure out how best to navigate the challenges of dating and relationships.

Here you’ll find practical insights and actionable suggestions, answers to your most puzzling questions about men and relationships, and the unvarnished "tough love" we all need from time to time. You can have the love life you’ve always wanted, and I can help you get there…but you’re going to have to quit kissing frogs.

 

Dominique is a Licensed Social Worker (LSW) who has worked with both couples and individuals seeking to improve their romantic relationships. Her clients span the gamut from single to casually dating to newly engaged to married for years. Dominique has helped these clients to achieve the following: 

  • Identify patterns in their dating life or relationships that are keeping them from having the meaningful, fulfilling partnership they have always wanted.

  • Change those habits that are keeping them stuck in unhealthy, destructive dating cycles  

  • Overcome the anxiety and poor self-esteem that is holding them back from healthy relationships.

  • Build confidence and adopt more realistic and compassionate perspectives that free them to achieve the goals that are most meaningful to them - including their romantic relationships..

  • Explore their values and clarify what they need in a potential match so that they can be better, more discerning daters and enjoy happier, more fulfilling relationships.

  • Prepare for marriage through premarital counseling, in which they explore potential conflicts and value differences, and learn tools to help them address challenges head-on - not as individual opponents, but together as a team.

  • Clarify relationship expectations when both partners feel that their goals are at odds, and build a shared vision for the future of their relationship and their life together.

  • Reconcile after past relational hurts, identify dysfunctional dynamics, and work together as a team to better manage conflict and build a healthier and happier partnership together.

  • Improve relationships that feel stagnant or disconnected and find ways to increase connection, excitement, and affection in a long-term relationship/marriage.

  • Find a greater sense of mutual understanding, unity, and intimacy in their marriage, even in the face of significant life stressors and challenging circumstances.

  • Navigate new phases of life - marriage, parenthood, and so on - by keeping their shared values and goals at the forefront, adapting their relationship habits to their new life stage, implementing strategies for managing stress and conflict effectively, and practicing compassion for both themself and their partner during these transitional seasons of life.