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Something unique and extraordinary has brought you to this place. The therapeutic relationship in which we share provides a profoundly relational context for emotional expansiveness, human understanding, and a growing capacity to bear life’s inevitable trials. Pain demands to be felt, but it is hard to come close to that pain when you are alone in it. I work collaboratively with you, to gain access to the unique way you relate to yourself and those around you. Together we seek to make meaning of the emotional convictions you have held since your early life and cultivate a deeper understanding of your emotional world.

Relationships are absolutely vital to our wellbeing and health. When the bond with our partner is strong and steady, we feel seen, safe, and secure. When the bond weakens, and distress and chaos take over, partners feel insecure, unsafe, and alone. When we lose the emotional connection with our partner, maladaptive patterns of behavior begin to develop. These patterns, or cycles of behavior are often characterized by criticism, anger, or disinterest, leaving partners feeling rejected, anxious or shutdown, when all the while, they are seeking the connection that tethers them to one another. Emotion-Focused Therapy for Couples, an approach developed by Dr. Sue Johnson, aims to help couples understand their own unique “dance.” Collaboratively, the couple and therapist “choreograph” new movements to untangle the patterns they get caught up in, to share the deeper feelings that live within their internal worlds. Couples learn how to articulate these feelings and emotional needs in a way that helps each partner understand and tend to the other.

Family Therapy aims to create a deeper understanding of emotions which are essential in organizing healthy attachment behavior and creating deeper engagement among each family member. Family Therapy modifies problematic rigid patterns of interaction that result in disconnection and distress. Family sessions focus on: Parental Accessibility, attuning to child’s reactivity and increasing self awareness of parents’ own emotions; 2) Parental Responsiveness, widening their window of tolerance and increasing ability to track child’s emotional cues. When each member of the family feels SEEN, SOOTHED, SAFE, and SECURE, (Daniel Siegel’s “The 4 S’s”) the bond between them becomes stronger and more resilient.