Encourage Ideas, Deepen Intimacy You can strengthen your connection by being better able to be involved with each other’s thoughts, ideas, and feelings. Learn concepts and skills which will help ease tensions, improve collaborative problem solving, and bring an increase … Continued
Suspended During Covid-19 Pandemic Playfulness For Couples: A Date Night Workshop Date night workshops take a direct approach to increasing the resources of playfulness & humor in your relationship. The workshop benefits include: (1)freeing of self-expression, (2)reminder of friendship, (3)lighter … Continued
Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy is Beautiful! Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy is a profoundly beautiful and powerful model of therapy and I love it. I love it because: It gives me a way to help couples build teamwork first, which helps … Continued
Here’s one very effective way to form a Men’s Group that will build cohesiveness and connection: Invite 2-3 men with who you want to develop more friendship to help you form a group. Each of them invites 2-3 men with … Continued
Changing The Narrow Window of Your Preconceptions Our perceptions are colored by experience. Perception becomes preconception. Preconception becomes perception. (Look at the image.) When something feels familiar to us we fit it into our expectations rather than look for what … Continued
When I know what I must change in myself I keep my focus on it. When I accept that I am solely responsible for making this change, I resolve to do so. Focus and resolve lead to effort. Of course, … Continued
You Wait To Get Help For Your Relationship For Understandable Reasons Couples delay the decision about couple therapy for understandable reasons, though this often makes matters worse. The reasons are understandable because the stakes are so high. Your relationship is … Continued
Is therapy helping? Is our therapist helpful? These questions are not only fair, they are vital to be asked. Let’s talk about your therapist first. Couples will sometimes end therapy with frustration and dissatisfactions about how things went. When the … Continued
An important aspect of our emotional lives is the experience of vulnerability. One of the fundamental secrets (not a well kept secret) for relating in ways that bring about warmth, goodwill and intimacy is to be vulnerable with your partner. … Continued
You Add Self-Reflection & New Action To Your Experience We are often thrust into emotional reactivity in the face of frustrating or painful feelings. Our reactivity can have various forms and expressions. We usually realize that our angry flare-ups are … Continued