Crystal Nelson (she/her)

Welcome to the start of your relationship work. Our couple's counseling coals are to help you and your partner understand love, understand emotions and attachment needs, control negative "dances" and shape a positive, loving bond. We meet to understand love systemically and how we are wired for connection.

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing is a psychotherapy that enables people to heal from symptoms & emotional distress that are the result of disturbing life experiences. The brain's information processing system naturally moves toward mental health. If the system is blocked or imbalanced by the impact of the disturbing event, the emotional wound festers & causes suffering. Using the detailed protocols, clinicians help clients remove the block & activate their natural healing processes.

Welcome to the start of both your individual and relationship work. Our couple's counseling goals are to help you and your partner understand love, understand emotions and attachment needs, control negative "dances" and shape a positive, loving bond. We meet to understand love systemically, how we are wired for connection and the clinician helps facilitate experiential conversations between partners.

Welcome to the start of your individual and relationship work to promote a secure, resilient and successful relationship between you and your partner and with family. Our couple's counseling goals are to help you and your partner understand love, understand emotions and attachment needs, control negative "dances" and shape or strengthen a positive, loving bond. We meet to understand love systemically, how we are wired for connection and facilitate experiential conversations between partners.

Welcome to the start of your work to promote a secure, resilient and successful relationship between you and your partner and within families. Our goals are to help you and your partner understand love, understand emotions and attachment needs, control negative "dances" and shape or strengthen a positive, loving bond. We meet to understand love systemically, how we are wired for connection and facilitate experiential conversations between partners through Emotion Focused Therapy.

The overall goal of DBT skills are to help you increase your resilience and build a life experienced as worth living. DBT skills are aimed to practice a synthesis of how to change what is & how to accept what is. Skills teach you how to both change unwanted behaviors, emotions, thoughts & events that cause misery or distress as how to live in the moment, accepting what is. The modules of skills are core mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation and interpersonal effectiveness skills.

I form a safe, egalitarian relationship with partners while providing emotionally focused couple therapy. EFT is a short- term systemic intervention to reduce distress in adult love relationships and create more secure bonds. EFT's focus on emotion is seen as the essential transforming element for effective couple's therapy. EFT uses the power of emotion to "move" partners and evoke new responses in recurring key interactions that make up a couple's relationship "dance."

I form a safe, egalitarian relationship with partners while providing emotionally focused couple therapy. EFT is a short- term systemic intervention to reduce distress in adult love relationships and create more secure bonds. EFT's focus on emotion is seen as the essential transforming element for effective couple's therapy. EFT uses the power of emotion to "move" partners and evoke new responses in recurring key interactions that make up a couple's relationship "dance."

I form a safe, egalitarian relationship with partners while providing emotionally focused couple therapy. EFT is a short- term systemic intervention to reduce distress in adult love relationships and create more secure bonds. EFT's focus on emotion is seen as the essential transforming element for effective couple's therapy. EFT uses the power of emotion to "move" partners and evoke new responses in recurring key interactions that make up a couple's relationship "dance."

I form a safe, egalitarian relationship with partners while providing emotionally focused couple therapy. EFT is a short- term systemic intervention to reduce distress in adult love relationships and create more secure bonds. EFT's focus on emotion is seen as the essential transforming element for effective couple's therapy. EFT uses the power of emotion to "move" partners and evoke new responses in recurring key interactions that make up a couple's relationship "dance."

I form a safe, egalitarian relationship with partners while providing emotionally focused couple therapy. EFT is a short- term systemic intervention to reduce distress in adult love relationships and create more secure bonds. EFT's focus on emotion is seen as the essential transforming element for effective couple's therapy. EFT uses the power of emotion to "move" partners and evoke new responses in recurring key interactions that make up a couple's relationship "dance."

When I first studied Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, I found that it was developed for individuals with BPD. People who meet criteria for personality disorders are found to have their onset at adolescents or early adulthood; they experience characteristic patterns such as instability in affect regulation, impulse control, interpersonal relationship & self-image.

In short, trauma is about loss of connection-to ourselves, to our bodies, our family or others & the world. The loss of connection can happen slowly over time & we adapt. We simply sense that we do not feel quite right, gradually we undermine our self-esteem, feelings of well being or connection to life. Our choices are limited, so we are constricted in our freedom & loose vitality. Some common triggers: auto accidents, medical procedures, loss or natural disasters.