22News speaks to love consultant

NORTHAMPTON, Mass. (WWLP) - Valentine's Day is coming up, and 22News spoke with a local expert on how you can create more love and less conflict in your relationships.

We talked to Patty Gates, a Northampton love and relationship consultant, but you can call her the “Love Doctor.”

She helps people who are single attract their ideal mate by first finding out more about their own relationship styles, and then discovering which styles they want in a mate. She also helps couples work through conflict so they can have more love in their relationship by decoding each other's relationship styles.

She said that even if you have opposite relationship styles, that does not mean you are not compatible, but it is helpful to identify that you are opposites.

“They don't even have to know, they can even just assume and just go ‘Wow, isn't that great! I can probably learn something from them. But, I'm perfect as I am and they're perfect as they are.’ So that acceptance can actually create more love in their lives,” Gates said.

This is not like couples therapy. What Gates does is she takes your birth date, sees how the planets aligned on that day, and then she tells you what you are and what you need. It sounds a little out there, but it is pretty interesting.

To find out more about Patty Gates, you can visit her website .