Do you wish to create a committed, secure, and healthy relationship? Do you need to repair or rebuild trust and connection? Or perhaps you’re trying to decide about your relationship’s future?
At Changepoints Couples Therapy, I specialize in getting to the core of negative patterns and triggers so you can find more effective ways to develop and sustain a deeper, more authentic relationship.
Do you need help with...
- Building relationship skills to keep your relationship vibrant
- Maintaining your composure when you or your partner gets triggered
- Understanding why you keep having the same arguments over and over
- Figuring out what to do when you and your partner aren't on the same page
- Decide what to do about a partner's betrayal
- Navigating a partner's addiction to a substance or behavior (work, hobby, pornography)
- Addressing the new/changing priorities in your relationship
- Expanding the strengths in your relationship
- Identifying your own role in relationship conflicts and negative patterns
- Creating a base for continued growth and connection with your partner
I can help you...
- Develop the skills needed to sustain a relationship that is authentic, open, and collaborative
- Manage that tendency to shut down or explode or do things that trigger your partner
- Find out where you get stuck and why you stay there
- Learn how to discuss difficult subjects or the differences between vou
- Identify your commitment to the relationship and next steps that are right for you
- Communicate in ways that your partner will be able to hear and respond to
- Deal with the developmental challenges of your relationship
- Express appreciations that are genuine and valued
- Identify your relational style and learn how it impacts interaction with your partner
- Build your capacity to be more relational
Learn how your personal history affects your relationship and partnership skills.
- Couples therapy can help you get at the root of your relationship problems and negative patterns. Together, we’ll share in a way that allows you to work together, to develop, or return to, the relationship you’ve always wanted.
- Integrate attachment theory, developmental models and neuroscience to help you and your relationships flourish.
What to expect
Step 1. Assess and Clarify
At the start, we work together to determine each partner’s role in the positive and negative cycles of the relationship. We identify your winning and losing strategies and your relational style to clarify big-picture goals and develop a plan to help you meet them.
Step 2: Experiment and Develop
Step 3: Create and Maintain
Practice only makes perfect if you are practicing new skills correctly. Take your relationship to new levels through consistent rea;-time practice of your new relational skills and strategies. Your increased understanding of relationship dynamics and the emotional brain gives you the capacities you need to continue nurturing and strengthening your relationship.
