Couples
Please note: Couples work is self-pay only.
My work with couples is based on Sue Johnson’s Emotionally Focused Therapy, which sees the relationship between partners as a healing and activating force related to our primary relationship patterns from childhood. It’s one of the most effective and evidence-based approaches to couples therapy around, and has the great advantage of deepening each individual’s personal work through the vehicle of the relationship. It also allows experimentation with new ways of communicating and meeting needs, and respects the alchemy of transformation that exists uniquely within the challenges of relating as partners.
If you’d like to get a sense of this approach, see the book Hold Me Tight, by Sue Johnson. Relationship is sacred, and holds all we need to transform.
It is important to distinguish that although I support partnership as depth-oriented practice that deserves the container of commitment through great difficulty, I do not consider the sole success of relationship to be staying together. There are times when separation is appropriate. I am available to help couples navigate successful and amicable separation, so that relating and learning from partnership continues to be available within the separation.
Corollory to that, I am available for co-parenting counseling, to help parents who have separated continue to be in effective, collaborative relationship.
