Imago Relationship Therapy

While I do use other modalities for relationship therapy, such as Gottman and EFT, I find the techniques and exercises used in Imago therapy, which is best suited for helping clients take more control of their own healing process.

This is a specific kind of relationship therapy that is designed to help conflict within relationships. We learn about the individual's own past wounds and how it maybe affecting their parter/relationship. Through this process we learn about personal triggers that are impacting the relationship.

I work with couples using the couples dialogue, helping them to feel heard and understood, with the goal of engaging in healthy conflict and having a strengthened relationship.

When your partner REALLY listens to you, a disagreement need not become a fight. We'll use Harville & Helen Hendrix's communication techniques to listen to understand, rather than just waiting to fire back a rebuttal. So often, we aren't even fighting about the same thing. Having help to slow down and stay on the same track has made all the difference for couples' relationships. I have heard "I just wish we'd done this sooner," as I work with couples to re-build connection.

Imago relationship therapy (IRT) aims to equip couples with the tools necessary to relate to each other in healthier ways and reveal the emotional pathway formed in childhood that led them to their current situation. This form of therapy combines spiritual and behavioral techniques with Western psychological methodologies in order to assist couples in unveiling their unconscious components.

I engage in IMAGO relationship therapy often with couples to help them connect, attach, and communicate more effectively.

I have been practicing IRT since the last 2 years.

I am a Certified Advanced Imago Clinician. I work with couples and partners, can help families, adult siblings, parents and children and others in their approach to relationships. Imago Therapy is a holistic and healing approach to relationship health. Through a series of dialogue exercises partners develop necessary skills including active listening, empathy, and validation. Partners emerge with lifelong skills of connection.

I am a Certified Imago Relationship Therapist and when looking through the lens of Imago, I help couples discover the answers to three important questions about relationships. - Why are we romantically attracted to someone? - What causes the conflict in our relationships? - How do we turn this conflict into reconnection and personal growth? I believe that, “We are all born through and into relationships, we are wounded in relationships, and the way we heal is through our relationships.”

Imago relationship therapy (IRT) aims to equip individuals and couples with the tools necessary to relate to each other in more optimal ways, and reveals the emotional pathway formed in childhood that led them to their current situation. This form of therapy combines spiritual and behavioral techniques with Western psychological methodologies in order to assist couples in unveiling their unconscious components.

I've seen the positive difference Imago makes for couples. It not only helps couples learn to communicate in a very helpful way, it also leads and teaches them to be curious, rather than reactive, about their areas of growth. They learn how conflict helps them develop deeper compassion and empathy in their relationship.

I create an Imago profile for you so that you can understand what you each bring to the table and the mechanics of your interaction. Being able to understand each other in this way helps us to understand how to make the relationship work better.

Imago therapy was developed with the goal to help partners reconnect, heal, and grow in their relationships. Imago hones in on partners' childhood wounds and helps them repair and grow past them within the relationship. It offers partners very practical and concrete interventions, such as formal appreciations, mirroring, validating, and empathizing. Clients can immediately apply interventions their daily lives to improve their relationships through the fostering of safety and security.

Imago Therapy teaches couples Imago Dialogue to help them listen to, and validate each other. Imago Dialogue is extremely powerful. Through Imago, couples trace current patterns back to childhood experiences. This process heals childhood wounds and in turn, fixes problems in current relationships. We provide individual couples counseling sessions using Imago Therapy.