Couple and Family Therapy
Our therapists can help you and your partner resolve conflicts, enhance communication, and foster a healthier relationship.
Our approach to couples and family therapy centers on deep respect for the healing and growth potential inherent in relationships. Relationships often reflect our unresolved emotional wounds and vulnerabilities, leading to challenging dynamics. Yet, with thoughtful guidance, these difficulties can become opportunities for deeper self-awareness and strengthened bonds with partners and family members.
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Unlike individual therapy, couples and family therapy emphasizes the interconnected nature of relationships. It recognizes that each person's behaviors and emotional responses both affect and are affected by everyone else within the family or partnership system.
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To navigate the complexities within relationships, we utilize therapeutic models like Internal Family Systems (IFS). IFS encourages individuals to explore and understand their internal dialogues, highlighting the different "parts" within their own minds. Recognizing similar internal dynamics within partners or family members—though expressed differently—can enhance empathy and mutual compassion.
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We also strongly emphasize attachment principles, helping couples and families build secure attachments that foster safety and belonging. Without secure connections, individuals might instinctively withdraw or become overly dependent, creating cycles of tension and avoidance.
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Families, particularly blended families formed through adoption, remarriage, or significant transitions, often face unique challenges. Therapy can offer essential guidance in addressing these complexities, promoting healthy, fulfilling relationships among all family members. Using Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), we identify patterns in conflicts that often stem from deeper emotional narratives. By bringing these underlying issues into awareness and addressing them directly, we help couples and families break harmful cycles and develop healthier, more positive ways of interacting.