Relationship Therapy
“For [healthy couples], love is a vessel that contains both security and adventure, and commitment offers one of the great luxuries of life: time. [...]. It’s a story that [partners] are writing together, one with many chapters, and neither partner knows how it will end. There’s always a place they haven’t gone yet, always something about the other still to be discovered.”
― Esther Perel, Mating in Captivity
Nurturing Connection and Growth Together
As partners go through life together and face unexpected changes, stresses, and losses, it’s likely their relationship will be challenged in one or more of these areas. It may need a tune-up, an overhaul, or even an ending.
Relationship therapy offers a safe space where I invite partners to explore, respectfully and authentically, what their next chapter can be.
The Building Blocks of a Strong Partnership
Our romantic attachment to our partner(s) is one of—or the most important—relationships in our lives. Maintaining a healthy relationship requires developing three different sets of skills:
◆ Being good partners:
Being reliable and accountable to each other, and able to re-negotiate roles or goals when necessary.
◆ Being great playmates:
Being able to relate and connect through joyful activities, sharing pleasure and excitement—sexual or otherwise—even during periods of stress or crisis.
◆ Being emotionally close:
Having the ability to lean on each other, to be vulnerable together, and to truly “get” each other. Also, at other times, acting as autonomous individuals who are clear about their needs and wants and willing to tolerate differences between themselves and their partner(s).