Helping couples work through their relationship challenges is a passion that I hold near and dear to my heart.
I want you to imagine that I am quietly whispering as I tell you that I believe that you and your partner can make it through the rocky points and come out stronger, once therapy is through, for having learned skills that will teach you how to safely work through the challenges that you are experiencing.
I firmly believe that you two will be okay if you are both willing to do the work to create a more shared understanding of your perspectives, and can cultivate more compassion and empathy for what you are both going through.
Couples suffer for too long in stages of fear, anger, resentment, and misunderstanding. Please—think loving thoughts and lay down your burdens. People come together because they want to share their life dreams.
You were both in it to win it! I want to help you make that win!
My focus is to help couples improve their quality of time, communication, commitment, shared vision, and relational competency, as soon as therapy begins.
As an experienced therapist offering couples therapy in Coronado, CA, I will be able to assess some themes contributing to the relationship problems within your first session. I will also offer some recommendations to begin fine tuning your communication and relational strategies before you leave this session.
My focus is to help couples improve their quality of time, communication, commitment, shared vision, and relational competency, as soon as therapy begins. Each subsequent session will build upon the tools that you are learning and practicing together. I am confident that as you both begin to feel better from the couple’s therapy; you will be motivated to continue to use the tools to maintain the closeness that you have restored.
Theoretical models that we may borrow from include John and Julie
Gottman’s Couples Therapy, and Susan Johnson’s
Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT). Both frameworks are empirically based, research proven models of therapy that enable couple’s to:
- better understand their responses to one another
- improve responses to strengthen communication and collaboration;
- enhance attachments as each works through repairing ruptures stemming from original attachment relationships, and
- master the art of problem solving.
