Pre-Marital, Partnership, Parenting, Families
Marriage/Partnership
Pre-Marital Counseling: A prescribed 6-8 sessions of preventative conversations and exercises to prepare couples for the challenges and joys of a life spent together. We will discuss things like communication styles, love languages, conflict management, external relationships, and more.
Emotion-Focused Therapy: Considers emotions the key to the development and transformation of the human experience. By understanding ourselves and our communication and expectation patterns, we can collaboratively work to re-shape relationship dynamics (Developed by Dr. Leslie Greenberg and Dr. Sue Johnson).
Gottman Therapy: Focuses on what makes intimate relationships succeed or fail, emphasizing the importance of building friendship, managing conflict constructively, and creating shared meaning in relationships (Developed by partners Dr. John Gottman and Dr. Julie Gottman).
Dissolution: At times, couples find the more beneficial option is to end their relationship. This can happen in peaceable ways that mitigate disruption and/or damage to individual and family systems and the mental well-being of all involved.
Parenting & Family Therapy
Bowenian Therapy: Families can pass down problematic behaviors and patterns across generations, which can lead to similar conflicts. The focus is on helping family members develop healthy communication, autonomy, and differentiation, while also identifying and breaking harmful patterns (Developed by Dr. Murray Bowen).
Narrative Therapy: Externalizes the issues, or separates the problem from the person or family. This helps to call out and strategize around the real issue rather than blaming ourselves, others, or the systems we come from or still be a part of. Using the client's voice, negative self-talk is reconstructed into self-actualization and positivity (Developed by Michael White and David Epston).