ABOUT THERAPY

Psychotherapy is an interpersonal, relational intervention to assist people with the multiple challenges of living and to increase an individual’s sense of well-being. This includes deeply examining one’s life, understanding how prior events and experiences have influenced one’s perceptions, learning new skills and coping mechanisms, exploring choices, defining one’s strengths, setting realistic goals and plans to reach those goals, and learning to operate from a position of empowerment and vitality.

Psychotherapists employ a range of techniques based on insight, awareness, communication, and behavioral change. Techniques used are designed to enhance the mental health of a person, to enrich that person’s relationships, and to maximize satisfaction in one’s personal and professional endeavors.

PACT COUPLES THERAPY

PACT – A Psychological Approach to Couples Therapy, developed by Stan Tatkin, Psy.D., MFT, ranks among the latest advancements in couple’s psychotherapy, integrating cutting-edge research in neuroscience, attachment theory, and the study of emotional arousal systems. In a session, couples are guided to become aware of what each person unconsciously brings to the relationship and to understand the resulting underlying dynamic that has led to dissatisfaction, conflict, distance, and threat. Then, partners work to experience and learn what they can do to produce a different outcome and lasting positive feelings toward one another. Couples “re-wire” their brains to promote safety and security for their couple bond, hallmarks of a protected, highly functional, and healthy relationship.

IMAGO RELATIONSHIP THERAPY

Imago Relationship Therapy, a form of couples therapy founded by Harville Hendrix, Ph.D., is designed to help couples in a committed partnership improve the quality of their relationship. The potential impact of this work spans a wide continuum, from deepening the intimacy of a positive and secure relationship to repairing a damaged and broken union.