Not accepting any new clients needing evening appointments - only day time appointments available. Are you struggling in your relationship? Feeling unloved, unheard and unimportant with no hope it will change? Communication in your relationship is always hard and it seems everything ends in arguments. If you can't stop arguing, do you need to start considering separation or divorce? How can you both learn to communicate better and sidestep arguments? You might be asking yourself some or all of these questions. You just want help to learn how to communicate more effectively and stop feeling bad in your relationship. When your relationship is not going well, it adds stress to all parts of your life and makes all of life harder. Often, couples come in to sessions with me wanting answers and relief from the pain of the arguments and ruptures. As a therapist, I provide a stabilizing presence to allow you both to share what is important to you without the conversation exploding into argument. Instead, you are heard and feel connection again. In session, I help you to share your needs with each other in a new way. This leads to stronger connection and ease of communication outside of session. It doesn’t need to be this hard. I am trained in Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy (EFT), the Developmental Model and Internal Family Systems Couples Therapy (Intimacy from the Inside Out - IFIO). My specialties are helping couples experiencing infertility, recovering from infidelity and improving communication to increase connection.
What can clients expect to take away from sessions with you?
You can expect to work with me for a period of 6 months to a year or more to learn how to communicate in order to reduce or recover quickly from arguments and ruptures. Learning comes from a combination of psychoeducation about how the brain works and how this shows up in relationship and doing, experientially communicating differently in session. Getting a felt sense of how to communicate differently gives you both confidence to open up and try different techniques at home. Arguments reduce, opening more opportunities to communicate differently and create connection. If arguments happen, recovery happens much more quickly. Over time, old injuries in the relationship are healed and intimacy increases. This is typically where therapy ends - increased intimacy and stronger connection.
What treatment methods and tools do you utilize?
Certified Internal Family Systems Therapist (IFS) Intimacy from the Inside Out - IFS for Couples Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy (EFT) Couples Institute Developmental Model
Explain to clients what areas you feel are your biggest strengths.
I take clients where they are and hold space for all you share with me. This is a non-judgmental space. I believe therapy is a collaboration between me and my clients - my skills and training and your knowledge about yourself.