• Introduction: Process overview.

• Initial Assessment

• Goal Setting

• Skill Development

• Exploration of Patterns

• Safe Dialogue

• Homework and Practice

• ​​Communication Skills Training

• Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) focuses on attachment and emotional bonds. Creating a secure emotional connection.

• The Gottman Method builds friendship, manages conflict, and creates shared meaning. It identifies the "Four Horsemen" of destructive communication (criticism, contempt, defensiveness, stonewalling).

• Exploring how childhood experiences influence current relationship dynamics and a partner's unconscious image of an ideal partner.​

• Psychoeducation: Providing information about relationship dynamics, communication patterns, and everyday challenges. Increasing positive behaviors and reducing negative behaviors. Creating behavior change contracts and trust-building exercises.

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• Communication Breakdowns

• Infidelity

• Trust Issues

• Financial Disagreements

• Parenting Differences

• Loss of Intimacy

• Life Transitions

• Sometimes, relationships end. Therapy can help a couple navigate separation and divorce within the family unit.

• Married Couples: Traditional marital relationships.

• Cohabitating Couples: Couples living together without marriage.

• Premarital Couples: Couples preparing for marriage.

• LGBTQ+IA, Monogamous non-monogamy, Polyamory, Couples: Couples of diverse sexual orientations and gender identities.

• Step-Families/Blended Families: Couples with children from previous relationships.

• Couples Dealing with Specific Issues:

Couples facing infidelity.

Couples dealing with addiction.

Couples dealing with financial stress and more....

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