Couples Counseling
Only you and your partner can create your unique relationship, your own dance, and as couple, you are modeling love and intimacy for the next generation. Or not. Investing in couples counseling to get on the right path together is an investment that will help you heal, feel alive and connected again, and it will support you and your loved ones ongoing. Learning to love the way you want and need and may never have been taught is possible with a skilled guide. A secure attachment style can be co-created in adulthood even when that wasn’t what you got in childhood.
The therapists and guides who most inform my approach to couples work include Stan Tatkin, Dan Siegel, Terry Real, Pia Mellody, and Dave Berger. What all these teachers have in common is an awareness of the need to address, heal, and integrate childhood attachment trauma while increasing the practice of emotional co-regulation in the couple’s relationship.
In my personal life, I work on my own relational recovery, a term coined by Terry Real, which is a mixture of doing my own inner work, and practicing healthy communication in life together with my husband. Intimacy is something we work on each day, it’s a lifelong practice, and totally worth it.
Please reach out with any questions.