Intimacy with others starts by knowing and accepting oneself, while relationships can provide the spark towards self-exploration and growth. When we lack the proper tools to handle the demands of personal and professional relationships, we may wish to retreat into ourselves and hide from the world.
Couples and Family Therapy can help reduce relationship conflict and promote healthy, positive relationships. In therapy, you learn to honor your emotional responses and communicate your needs more effectively. Attending non-judgmentally to your emotions and needs leads to greater self-awareness and self-acceptance, enabling greater empathy and compassion towards others. Through greater understanding of yourself and others, intimacy grows and relationships deepen.
As Couples and Family Therapists, we strive to provide an empathic and non-judgmental space for clear and open communication, while providing compassion for emotional needs and addressing diverse needs in relationships. We work with families and couples of diverse orientations and meet all our clients with compassionate acceptance.
EFT (Emotionally Focused Therapy) for couples, as well as DBT, CBT & Mindfulness approaches, are utilized to assist with learning skills for greater understanding of one's own needs and the needs of others. Through healthy self-regulation strategies, one can achieve more personal balance and peace, enabling trust and healthy boundaries to develop into more lasting, satisfying relationships.
People often seek help to improve their intimate relationships when communication breaks down or when emotions become heated, intense or wounding. Relationship counseling helps you sort through conflicting emotions and needs within a non-judgmental, compassionate setting.
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