Couples work takes place in the emotional trenches.
Getting beyond the hurt, mistrust, pain, and loss, takes experience and a steady hand. Let’s do the work…together…to repair what’s in need of healing, or what is necessary to disconnect.
Offering the Services You Need Now
Relationship Focused Therapies
When the Goal is Repairing the Connection
Getting together is so much easier than staying together. When you want to reconnect despite the hurt and conflict, approaches that combine the sciences of connection, attachment, and trust-rebuilding are essential elements for success. I look forward to helping.
When the Need is to Uncouple and Move On
When the time to uncouple is at hand, maintaining mutual respect, good will, positive regard, and constructive disengagement are not merely ideals. The research shows they position you to live a fuller and happier life going forward. And, when children are involved, these skills position them for longer-term relationship success in their own lives. Let’s get to work.
Coaching
Coaching vs. Therapy
Choosing to pursue a coaching path makes sense when you are wanting to:
Take a skills-based approach to your difficulties
Adopt an action-orientation to face and move beyond the obstacle(s) you face
Value understanding the roots of your conflict, but want to engage a future-focused orientation.
If these three dimensions of the work speak directly to your current needs, opting for coaching with me makes sense.
Court Involvement
The court system is based on laws that are decided upon through the standard of rules of evidence. This system is ill equipped to address the emotional and psychological consequences of the breakdown of a marriage.
When you are facing divorce or deeply embroiled in the intricate and confusing layers of the divorce, when your battles entangle your children, when every gesture of good will seems to be met with yet more inflexibility or unreasonableness, it is time to contact me.
Drawing on my background in neuropsychology, relationship therapies, strategic coaching approaches, and family system tools and techniques enable me to provide thorough, science-based assessments. When necessary, my honest and competent testimony can be used to help obtain resolutions and judgements that are fair and balanced.
I approach the intersection between the court and your psychological needs in a way that aligns with the mission and values of the Association of Family and Conciliation Court, an organization dedicated to serving the needs of children’ and families through collaborative, research and education-based approaches.