Couples Counseling – Gottman Certified Therapist
Relationships today are complex and challenging. If you feel disconnected, unappreciated, frustrated or dissatisfied in your relationship, couples counseling can help. The sooner you respond to problems, the faster you and your partner will be able to get your relationship back on track. I am a Gottman Certified Therapist and my approach is based on the latest marital research and methods of Dr. John Gottman and the Gottman Institute. This positive practical approach to working with couples provides you with the tools and skills that will get results.
Gottman Method couples therapy combines Dr. John Gottman’s 40 years of research on couples’ relationships with Dr. Julie Schwartz Gottman’s more than 35 years of clinical practice. Through research-based exercises, Gottman Method Therapists help couples break through barriers to achieve greater understanding, connection and intimacy. Gottman Method Couples Therapy is a structured, goal-oriented, scientifically-based therapy. Gottman Method Couples Therapy was developed to help you and your partner:
- Increase respect, affection and closeness
- Deepen the friendship foundation of your relationship
- Rebuild trust after an affair
- Break through and resolve conflict when you feel stuck
- Generate greater understanding between you and your partner
- Keep conflict discussions calm
- Create shared meaning
- Maintain improvements in your relationship
The therapy usually consists of two or three sessions of assessment and subsequent treatment sessions, typically on a weekly basis. Gottman Method Therapy helps couples develop and strengthen the qualities of positive, healthy relationships.
I will provide you with a thorough assessment, a focused treatment plan and feedback based on Gottman’s Sound Relationship House. We will focus on your friendship, how you approach conflict and how you support dreams and aspirations for yourselves and each other, as well as shared meaning between you. I work with married, engaged, straight, gay and lesbian couples. I offer private couple counseling sessions and extended couple counseling sessions for couples traveling from out of town.