Beautiful Love Wisdom from a Therapist Talking About Working with Couples

In couples work, I draw from the principles of Imago therapy, psychodynamic theory, and non-violent communication. Relationship issues are often underlain by unconscious and unresolved childhood pain. My work gets both partners in touch with this material, moving one past the defended aspects of one’s psyche and into what one truly wants and needs. This places previously unsolvable issues in a new perspective, which helps couples shift from relating to each other as adversaries trying to get each other to do what they want to relating to each other as allies in mutual healing.