Imago Relationship Therapy

When your partner REALLY listens to you, a disagreement need not become a fight. We'll use Harville & Helen Hendrix's communication techniques to listen to understand, rather than just waiting to fire back a rebuttal. So often, we aren't even fighting about the same thing. Having help to slow down and stay on the same track has made all the difference for couples' relationships. I have heard "I just wish we'd done this sooner," as I work with couples to re-build connection.

I work with couples using the couples dialogue, helping them to feel heard and understood, with the goal of engaging in healthy conflict and having a strengthened relationship.

Imago relationship therapy (IRT) aims to equip couples with the tools necessary to relate to each other in healthier ways and reveal the emotional pathway formed in childhood that led them to their current situation. This form of therapy combines spiritual and behavioral techniques with Western psychological methodologies in order to assist couples in unveiling their unconscious components.

While I do use other modalities for relationship therapy, such as Gottman and EFT, I find the techniques and exercises used in Imago therapy, which is best suited for helping clients take more control of their own healing process.

I engage in IMAGO relationship therapy often with couples to help them connect, attach, and communicate more effectively.

This is a specific kind of relationship therapy that is designed to help conflict within relationships. We learn about the individual's own past wounds and how it maybe affecting their parter/relationship. Through this process we learn about personal triggers that are impacting the relationship.

One of the biggest problems couples have are boundary violations. This is not always an intentional act, however, the experience tends to be frustrating. Through Imago therapy, you and your partner will learn to respect one another's boundaries, mirror during conversation to build understanding as this should be the focus in conversation. Validation and empathy are focuses in the treatment so that a strong bond can be secured via understanding and learning to communicate in a healthy manner.

There is a link between frustrations in adult relationships and our experiences growing up. Childhood feelings of abandonment, suppression or neglect will often arise in an intimate relationship. When partners meet wounds with defensiveness and reactivity it can overshadow the positives in a relationship and lead to feelings of disconnection, pain and dis-empowerment. Imago Relationship Therapy aims to help couples learn to shift out of the power struggle and into loving connection.

Imago therapy is focused upon helping us break patterns of repetitive relationship behavior that has not been serving us well. We all have relationship patterns and when caretakers were not healthy models, the patterns tend to be toxic. Imago therapy helps to fix adult patterns by focusing on and understanding the patterns formed and modeled by family of origin.

Imago Relationship Therapy provides couples and families with a safe structure to co-create a healthy, loving and mature relationship where all parties feel heard and understood. Imago is unique in several ways; it provides a dialogical process that you will continually use to connect and heal.

Imago Couples Therapy is based on the idea that we each carry an image of what love should feel like, shaped by early experiences. This image influences our romantic relationships, often complicating them with past and present issues. Imago therapy aims to build empathy, understanding, appreciation, and connection between partners. Imago therapy can help you: ​ Reinvigorate your relationships. Transform conflict into connection. Embrace new possibilities for deeper relationships.

I help couples heal the wounds that they have been projecting on to their partners to restore harmony in the relationship. I also facilitate the Imago Dialogue for healthy communication.

Imago Relationship Therapy provides couples and families with a safe structure to co-create a healthy, loving and mature relationship where all parties feel heard and understood. Imago is unique in several ways; it provides a dialogical process that you will continually use to connect and heal.

I have advanced training in Imago relationship since the early 1980s. I recently renewed my training in this method and am working towards my certification in this approach. I find Imago is very valuable in doing depth work with couples, helping partners build an intimate and loving space between them that feels nurturing, safe, and authentic. I also appreciate how simple the imago dialogue process is so any couple could learn this and use it to their benefit very quickly.

Imago therapy will help you discover how to connect deeper to create the healthy and happy relationships you've always dreamed of having.