Couples

Couples counseling can transform your relationship by helping you:

• Improve communication skills
• Build connection and intimacy in your relationship
• Learn new, more effective ways to resolve conflict
• Understand problems and reactivity from a new perspective
• Change negative or stuck relationship patterns
• Heal from an affair, infidelity or broken trust
• Create a shared vision for your life together
• Understand relationship stages and patterns
• Overcome challenges related to:
  • Parenting and step-parenting
  • Remarriage and blended families
  • In-laws and extended family
  • Sexuality and Intimacy
  • Financial differences
  • Career and work-family balance
  • Past relationship experiences that impact trust and connection
  • Any issue or area of conflict that gets in the way or keeps you stuck

Pre-marital Counseling can help you build a secure foundation that will enable you to successfully navigate the inevitable challenges that arise in every marriage.

I utilize a variety of methods based on the needs and goals of each couple, drawing primarily from the following methods:

• Imago Relationship Therapy
  • The Imago Dialogue
  • What is Imago?
  • Couples Example
• Emotionally Focused Therapy
  
  EFT helps couples identify the ‘negative cycle’ of interactions that takes place in the relationship. Conflict is normal, but the negative cycle keeps us stuck and erodes emotional connection. Together we can identify and untangle this cycle and build new understanding and patterns that build intimacy. 

   

• Gottman Couples Therapy
  • The Four Horsemen
  • Marriage Minute

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