What Couples Therapy Can Offer:

For many couples of all kinds the road to an intimate, satisfying and emotionally mature relationship is one that is can be quite painful and bumpy at times. For some couples this looks like having an endless fight that never seems to get resolved or never being able to truly create a middle ground. Perhaps the challenge looks like a feeling of deadness in the relationship. For other couples it looks like a complete breakdown in communication, a drifting apart, or a loss of sexual connection. 

During the difficulty there inherently lies an opportunity to initiate the relationship onto a deeper path and cycle of growth. While growing in your love, understanding, and acceptance for each other, you can learn to utilize the problems that arise in your relationship as an emerging vessel for growing genuine intimacy, for finally resolving old unbroken patterns, and for healing, joy, compassion & love. 

My style as a Couples Therapist is warm, deeply intuitive, interactive, and facilitative. What I can offer your partnership is an in-depth intricate opportunity to clarify, unravel, and examine the forces that both help and hinder your growth, deepen your bond, and align you more authentically & intimately to partner successfully with each other. I don’t just talk ‘about’ the issues, but work collaboratively with you to address the underlying constructs that if not addressed create dysfunctional patterns of relating, shutting down from each other, growing apart, and continuous conflict or struggle.

We’ll have the opportunity to elucidate what the dynamics are that are being played out in the relationship, the roles that each partner plays, and how they are instigated. 

We’ll notice together and work with whatever unresolved background history plays a part in the creation of the dynamics, that eventually over time with commitment, consciousness and a desire to grow, allow the healing to happen that is necessary if the relationship is to evolve forward.

I Work With the Following Couples Issues:

• Addressing Addiction
• Improving Communication Skills
• Increasing Intimacy and Authentic Connection
• Cutting the Cords of Codependency Challenges
• Coming To Terms with Commitment Issues
• Emotional Availability & Vulnerability Dynamics
• Utilizing Power & Control Problems
• Pre-Marital/Moving In/Wedding Issues
• Stabilizing Step & Blended Family Issues
• Problems with Parenting Issues
• Sexuality/Passion/Love Issues
• The Affair – Infidelity/Betrayal
• Money - Financial Concerns – Wealth Issues
• Releasing Resentments, & Anger, & Disappointments
• Bi-Racial, Cultural & Religious, or Spiritual Issues
• Resolving the Unresolved Fight
• Transitions

Relationship Living Couples Work

Please check back for information about Relationship Living Couples Classes, Workshops, & Retreats.

Joanna Intara Zim, M.A.
email: joanna@joannaintarazim.org
San Francisco Office - 2282 Union Street San Francisco, CA ~ 415.923.0481
Sonoma Office - 24 Western Avenue, Suite 313, Petaluma, CA 94952 ~ 707.781.9231