Find safety in connection
Discover new levels of closeness and ease in your relationships
Love can be a harbor in a storm
The blinders from the honeymoon phase have come off. The love is there, but, now, so is a pattern of conflict. You can’t seem to break out of this pattern. It’s scary to imagine what will happen to the relationship if this pattern continues. You are not alone, and painful patterns can be broken.
Emotionally-Focused Couples Therapy
Few things can make us humans feel more desperate, inadequate, and confused than when we experience repetitive conflict with our loved ones. We’re wired for connection - so why do we feel so lost when it comes to communicating with our partner? The answer is found in the science of connection: attachment science. This is the science that Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) is rooted in.
EFT uses a non-pathologizing frame to help us understand why we get stuck. This APA-endorsed model offers compassion for the ways that we inadvertently contribute to our repetitive patterns - and offers simple but meaningful solutions for how to break free from those patterns.
You deserve to feel empowered to navigate conflict on your own, and I want to help you get there. First, we use a lens of curiosity and compassion to unpack what your specific pattern of conflict looks like. Next, we get to the root of the emotions and attachment needs that drive the conflict. Finally, we take time to consolidate the changes that you have made and find resolution to the problems that once plagued your relationship - without falling into a pattern of conflict that goes nowhere.
“If you know your loved one is there and will come when you call, you are more confident of your worth, your value. And the world is less intimidating when you have another to count on and know that you are not alone.”
— Sue Johnson, PhD
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