What Couples Offers
For many couples of all kinds the road to an intimate, satisfying, meaningful and emotionally mature relationship filled with flow and love, 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, stress, or difficulty connecting in the relationship. For other couples it looks like a complete breakdown in communication, a drifting apart, an affair, 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, and using your strengths together, you can learn to utilize the very 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. What it feels like to work with me My style as a Couples Therapist is warm, deeply intuitive, interactive, and facilitative. What I 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 and therefore creatively with each other. This often produces tremendous feelings of joy and peace. 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 a natural part of the relationship evolving forward. I Work With the Following Couples Issues:
- Addressing Addiction
- Improving Communication Skills
- Increasing Intimacy and Authentic Connection
- Cutting the Cords with Codependency Challenges
- Coming To Terms with Commitment Issues
- Emotional & 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
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Transformational Couples Intensives
A new format for couples is available who many not be able to attend weekly sessions or who live far away and are visiting the San Francisco Bay Area is now here. Transformational Couples Intensives are ideal for couples who would like to focus on a specific aspect of relationship that calls forward to be evolved. Those who are drawn towards this kind of work have had some experience in Couples Therapy or resonate with the yearning to have a deeper, joyful, and more fulfilling, intimate and evolving relationship. Transformational Couples Intensives are thoughtfully, sensitively, and individually crafted for the couple in need and are anywhere from one to three days. They are also ideal for couples who prefer an alternative to weekly therapy. All Couples Intensives magnetize those couples who are ready to take their relationship to the next level, a natural outcome of the work undertaken, so if you find yourself called to truly evolve your relationship forward, there’s no question you’ll find this work deeply rewarding, nourishing, and a wonderful gift and support to enriching one of the most important relationships in your life. Visit Transformational Couples Intensives for details.