I embrace a variety of therapeutic principles and theories for couples therapy.
Below is a list of clinical theories that I borrow from:
Emotionally Focused Therapy for Couples (EFT-C)
Emotionally Focused Therapy for Couples (EFT-C) is a couples model of therapy that is promoted to help couples strengthen their emotional bond and to decrease the level of conflict they have been experiencing. This therapy will similarly involve looking at the quality of your original attachments and determining how the quality of these historical relationships impact how you two relate to one another.
EFT-C helps couples to become more self-aware of their emotional responses to one another, promotes attunement, and models how couples can develop responses that enhance greater empathy and connection. This modality is used to help you transform conflict so that the tensions between you and your partner can be channeled into a means to help you better understand and respond to one another’s needs. This style of therapy allows us to improve your communication strategies and problem solving methods in ways that help you feel closer, revered, and passionately committed.
Gottman Therapy
Gottman Therapy is another couples model of therapy that is designed to help couples mitigate conflict and achieve greater intimacy. This model is based on the precept that there are four basic responses to conflict which most couples tend to use under fire. If they become chronic, these responses can slowly permeate and erode the health of the relationship. This modality focuses on educating couples to recognize these responses; and through kindness, compassion, healing, and the reduction of harmful interactions; overcome barriers to friendship.
If you are tired of being trapped in gridlock, are no longer sure of where you stand in the relationship, desperately want to return to those happier days when you were head over heels for one another, and ensure your future direction, this couple’s therapy is for you. Don’t wait to learn how to nourish and maintain a thriving marriage.