Whatever the age of the ailing person/persons, my objective is to transform existing problematic relationships into attuned and reciprocally satisfying ones. This transformation will help each member to feel enhanced and stronger. I help each individual to be able to perceive the needs of their partners and to feel individuated and yet committed to live a productive life together.
Family therapy is relationship oriented therapy that includes:
1) chronic relationship problems of mothers and daughters, a mother or a father and son, both parents and their children
2) when a new wife or husband comes into an established family
3) a parent and their infant
4) premarital relationships
5) sexual problems
6) post-divorce relationship
Sometimes a couple maybe immersed in a pathologically dependent relationship where the one that seeks help feels frustrated and disempowered to change the unhappy course that the couple has taken and is now engaged in. A healthy relationship goes through numerous phases during its life cycle. A few rough patches strengthen the relationship of healthy people. A strong relationship is reflected in how the couple deals and finds solutions to their problems when traversing those rough patches and when the problem is resolved the couple is able to move ahead. To develop such a strong relationship is the objective of conjoint and/or individualized Couples Therapy. Divorce and separation are only necessary if the problems are not just circumstantial, but are deemed irrecoverable and irreversible. If so, I try to help the couple work towards a mature separation.
This systematic approach towards Couples Therapy is meant to help people to resolve residual adverse issues in their life’s historical experience. Those old adverse life events bring up in the present derailed and deregulated emotional states. Adversity shapes the present reactions to stress. Life stressing events, when connecting in the mind’s eye with past fear trigger irritable mood in one or both members bringing misunderstanding in communication to well-intentioned messages. These misinterpreted messages can derail a loving dialog.
After a couple’s assessment sessions, we may discover that each member needs to work out individual problems, or that one or the other feels more comfortable discussing his or her concern in private. The therapeutic decision is arrived at in collaboration with both members of the dyad. It is the goal of interpersonal psychotherapies that each member becomes able to resolve present conflicts by increasing their ability to let go of prior pathological attachment experiences that now threaten to contaminate their present love relationships and world views.
I believe that love should be given a chance, and that there are relationships that can be saved if only the people involved take that first step and make that last-ditch effort to save their relationship.
Family therapy is relationship oriented therapy that includes:
1) chronic relationship problems of mothers and daughters, a mother or a father and son, both parents and their children
2) when a new wife or husband comes into an established family
3) a parent and their infant
4) premarital relationships
5) sexual problems
6) post-divorce relationship
This systematic approach towards Couples Therapy is meant to help people to resolve residual adverse issues in their life’s historical experience. Those old adverse life events bring up in the present derailed and deregulated emotional states. Adversity shapes the present reactions to stress. Life stressing events, when connecting in the mind’s eye with past fear trigger irritable mood in one or both members bringing misunderstanding in communication to well-intentioned messages. These misinterpreted messages can derail a loving dialog.
After a couple’s assessment sessions, we may discover that each member needs to work out individual problems, or that one or the other feels more comfortable discussing his or her concern in private. The therapeutic decision is arrived at in collaboration with both members of the dyad. It is the goal of interpersonal psychotherapies that each member becomes able to resolve present conflicts by increasing their ability to let go of prior pathological attachment experiences that now threaten to contaminate their present love relationships and world views.
I believe that love should be given a chance, and that there are relationships that can be saved if only the people involved take that first step and make that last-ditch effort to save their relationship.