Couples Therapy

COUPLES COUNSELING & THERAPY

Do you feel anxious, angry, depressed, disconnected, lonely, sad, or overwhelmed?

Do the same issues keep recycling in your arguments?

Is the intimacy you once shared much less frequent?

Do you feel insecure and frustrated with your relationship?

Jungian psychology suggests that the most powerful relationship for any couple is the relationship that each partner fosters between his or her own conscious and unconscious processes so as to minimize the effect of unrealistic projections onto the partner. As a Jungian-oriented psychotherapist, I call on the principals of Jungian psychology in my work with couples.

The decision to see a couples counselor can be a difficult one, but it can be an opportunity to deepen your commitment to one another, while working through barriers in your relationship in order to restore trust, safety, and a sense of closeness.

I have extensive training in Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), a short term and structured approach to couples therapy developed by Dr. Sue Johnson in the 1980’s:

This method focuses on negative communication patterns within a relationship, and Attachment Theory. Attachment theory describes how our early relationships with a primary caregiver, most commonly a parent, creates our expectation of how love should be. Our view of ourselves and others is shaped by how well our caregivers were available and responsive to meet our physical and emotional needs. In our adult relationships, our attachment system is triggered by our romantic partners. If we have experienced inconsistent attachment in our childhood, these issues will most often play out in our adult relationships.

I work with each couple to explore and discover the root of stressful issues in a safe and confidential setting, with the goal of bringing them back to a place of reconciliation, growth and deeper levels of love, trust and intimacy.