Couples Therapy
Couples Therapy
Doing Couples work right is notoriously tricky for clinicians. You will want a well-trained, experienced professional working with you, knowing how to not only create healing together but also to prevent pain from worsening. Couples can actually do more damage to their relationship with the wrong communication conditions, sometimes needing to pause before continuing.
We have deep experience working with all types of family systems, incl LGBTQA+, polyamory, mixed race or religion units. Love should be safe, consensual, supportive and free.
Our Couples program is designed for change, not just for maintaining. We ask each partner to enter individual therapy – whether with us or not – to support the change that needs to happen. Yes, your couples therapist can start without either of you being in individual support places, but we find that to be a less effective model. Our couples component is to help the two of you understand your patterns, understand the nervous system’s reactions, know best how to slow to open to another point of view. You’ll bring those goals then to your individual work, to understand your unique needs for slowing and opening yourself to other options. If you are each in Individual sessions in-house with Family Resilience, communication is internal and seamless within the team supporting you.
We work on understanding attachment and developmental wounds that might be brought into the relationship, learn how to track activating moments of overwhelm, find healthy ways to disengage, and communicate in ways that reach your partner more fully and safely through better neurological regulation. Managing family issues and recovering sexuality are sub-specialties of ours. Many people also come in for pre-marital therapy.
~ D.M. Client Testimonial