Figs O'Sullivan

Figs O'Sullivan is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT #79062) and the founder of Empathi. For 17 years he has helped couples move out of disconnection and back into secure, loving connection, drawing on Emotionally Focused Therapy and attachment science. With his wife Teale, he runs a San Francisco couples therapy practice, is a relationship expert to the Stars and Silicon Valley, and built Figlet, an AI relationship coach trained on their clinical work. His approach has guided more than 58,000 relationship assessments.

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AI Relationship Assessment: What Your Score Actually Means

You just took an AI relationship assessment and got your score. Now you are staring at a number and a pattern description wondering what it actually means for your marriage. I get it. After building the AI relationship assessment behind Figlet and analyzing over 36,000 couples through our Empathi platform, I can walk you through […]

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How to Get Your Partner to Try Couples Therapy (Without Pushing Them Away)

You Some partners who resist weekly therapy are more open to a couples therapy intensive, a concentrated format that feels less like an open-ended commitment and more like a focused project with a clear goal. Talk to FigletFigs’ AI relationship coachHere now, ready when you are You are the one who reads the books, listens

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7 Essential Steps: Couples Therapy After an Affair That Actually Works

The After an affair, many couples find that the intensive couples therapy format accelerates healing by creating the sustained emotional safety that weekly sessions struggle to build. If you’re recovering from an affair, a couples therapy intensive might be the fastest path to real change. Empathi’s 3-day virtual intensive gives you 25 weeks of progress

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Best couples therapy in California for high-performing couples

Best Couples Therapy in California for High-Performing Couples

You Don’t Need a Local Therapist. You Need the Right One. If you’re searching for the best couples therapy in California, you’re probably doing what most high-achieving people do: looking for the best. Not the closest. Not the cheapest. The best. High-performing California couples who want faster results often choose an intensive format that delivers

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AI vs Human Couples Therapist: An Honest Comparison From Someone Who Does Both

An AI coach and a human couples therapist do different jobs. AI is good at what a skilled therapist does in the first few sessions: spotting the pursue-withdraw cycle you are caught in, consistently, at any hour, for little or no money. A human couples therapist is still who you need for trauma, betrayal, safety

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Two High Performers, One Empty Home: 5 Powerful Couples Therapy Breakthroughs for Dual-Career Couples

You are both succeeding at everything except the marriage. Your careers are intact. The mortgage is covered. From the outside, the life you have built together looks exactly like the life you planned. But inside the house, after the kids are down or the laptops finally close, there is a silence between you that has

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5 Powerful Signs You Need Couples Therapy Before Deciding to Divorce

You If you are seeing these signs and feel the urgency, an intensive couples therapy format can help you make real progress before it is too late. If you’re considering divorce but haven’t tried everything yet, a couples therapy with Empathi intensive might be the fastest path to real change. Empathi’s 3-day virtual intensive gives

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How AI Relationship Coaching Works: A Step-by-Step Guide

How does AI relationship coaching actually work? If you are skeptical, I understand. I was too. I am a licensed couples therapist with over seventeen years of clinical experience and more than 36,000 relationship assessments behind me. The idea that artificial intelligence could help couples understand their relationship patterns felt, at first, like a contradiction.

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The Money Arrived and Everything Got Worse: 5 Powerful Couples Therapy Lessons After a Liquidity Event

You are standing in the house you bought with cash, in the city you chose because you could finally afford to choose, and you cannot remember the last time you and your partner had a real conversation. The wire cleared months ago. The stress of the build, the fundraising, the near-misses, all of it is

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When the Company Fails and the Marriage Starts To: 5 Critical Couples Therapy Insights During a Startup Crisis

In If your startup crisis is threatening your marriage, a couples therapy intensive might be the fastest path to real change. Empathi’s 3-day virtual intensive gives you 25 weeks of progress in one focused experience. Book your free consult to find out if it’s right for you. When a startup crisis hits your marriage, waiting

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