Figs O'Sullivan
Your Go-To Expert For Effective Relationship Advice
Figs O'Sullivan is a down-to-earth couple’s therapist with 20 years of experience in the field. His unique and insightful approach to couples therapy, known as the Empathi Method, has made him a sought after couple's expert for thought leader’s and creatives around the world.

There are no surface-level insights, quick tactics, or band-aids in his approach.

Instead, Figs’ refreshing, science-backed perspectives will flip the way you understand love on its head, and help you bring empathy to the forefront of your relationships.
Figs O'Sullivan is a down-to-earth couple’s therapist with 20 years of experience in the field. His unique and insightful approach to couples therapy, known as the Empathi Method, has made him a sought after couple's expert for thought leader’s and creatives around the world.
There are no surface-level insights, quick tactics, or band-aids in his approach.
Instead, Figs’ refreshing, science-backed perspectives will flip the way you understand love on its head, and help you bring empathy to the forefront of your relationships.
Figs' Journey
BIOGRAPHY
What's a Figs?
Meet Figs O'Sullivan...
Psychotherapist, Emotionally-Focused Therapy practitioner, and Founder of Empathi, the best-rated couples therapy practice in San Francisco.

He was born in Ireland, and is now raising two children with his wife, Teale, in Hawaii. In his 20,000+ hours as a couple’s therapist, Figs has seen as many faces as he has researched therapy methods. What he discovered about how humans heal was incredibly simple . . .

Yet often really, really difficult for people to achieve without guidance.
What To Know
Figs is a loving dad, friend, and ocean lover.
The most sought-after couples therapist to the movers and shakers of Silicon Valley.
Used to helping the smartest and most creative people in the world at making love work.
Witty, relatable speaker who is willing to banter and discuss topics deeply.
Appeared on NPR for his expertise in reading human emotions and understanding couple’s dynamics.
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TOPICS
Answer Your Audience's Questions
Why do couples have the same fight over and over again?
What love is.
There’s really only one relationship problem.
The perspective and the steps you need to take to make love work.
Everyone always makes sense. The listener, their partner or other loved one, and both of them together.
How do you make long-term relationships work?
How we get stuck in a negative, reactionary system with each other.
The need to get to a place of empathy which each other.
The need we all have to be emotionally bonded.
The need to get to a place of empathy which each other
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