"Knowing
is the most profound kind of love, giving someone knowldege about
ourself."
( Marsh Norman)
 COUPLES
What is Imago Relationship Therapy:
Is your relationship difficult? Is it hard for you to listen and even more impossible for you to be heard?
Imago shows you how to reconnect by using a new way of talking together called the Imago dialogue. It is a new way of listening and speaking, beyond the old language of the blame and criticism. Imago therapy helps you to learn more about each other and understand what the other is really trying to say.
I am an experienced Imago therapist and will help you to uncover what really is going on underneath your relationship conflicts . You will learn how to move past them to a place of deep and satisfying connection to each other.
*Harville Hendrix, repeated guest on The Oprah show and best selling author of "Getting the Love You Want," has been helping couples worldwide for year. He developed Imago Relationship International which consists of a vast community of Certified Imago therapists world-wide, in more than 50 countries. Visit the website at www.Imagotherapy.com
Imago Therapy Will Help:
Couples who are in crisis
Couples who argue and disagree and feel hopeless
Couples who have a good-enough relationship but want to deepen their connection
Couples who want more passion and fun in their relationship
Couples who are thinking of separating or ending their relationship
Couples who have already separated
Couples who are dissatisfied with their sex life
Individuals or couples who want to understand their current or past relationships
Engaged couples who want to start married life with a strong foundation anyone who wants change the dysfunctional cycle of their families of origin
Couples who are currently or about to have a blended-family and are step-parents
Couples who are in transition in any area of their lives
What Couples Will Learn from Imago Therapy:
How to use conflicts constructively to enhance emotional bonds
The reason why your partner seems so annoying and the real reason for the conflicts
How to speak, be heard and understood by each other in a new way
How to support each other in spite of your differing styles and personalities
Why seemingly opposed and “incompatible” couples are really well matched
How to really “get” your partners with true empathy
How to create the kind of relationship with each other where each can speak and be heard
How to have fun and bring romance and the sparks of passion back
How to unite as a couple and develop a conscious vision of the relationship of your dreams
New skills to parent more cohesively and in a positive and constructive way
How to create a comfortable and nurturing environment for all members of the household
How to turn arguments into meaningful connections and rebuild trust
How to recover from an affair and move to a better place than before the affair.
As a Certified Imago relationship Therapist:
Most couples engage in power-struggles which are futile and result in pain and disconnection. These are rooted in shame, blame, criticism and making someone right or wrong. From this place of separation, loneliness and frustration many threats to the relationship may occur. Some of these are: affairs, substance abuse, silence and withholding, anger, depression, escape into working excessively and many other behaviors that rob the relationship of energy and attention.
There are many reasons why couples have conflicted partnerships. Many times, one or both partners enter the relationship with unresolved issues from the past. Quite often, couples react to one another because of a childhood history of not feeling special, loved, valued or heard. Sometimes, childhood abuse or neglect is the root of problems in adult relationships, stemming from difficulty with feelings of trust and safety. Additionally, unhealthy or hurtful behaviors may have been modeled by parents in childhood and as adults, partners know of no other way to interact.
As a skilled Imago therapist I teach couples how to experience the relief of giving and receiving comfort. I help them to become a partner who truly “gets” the other. . I will guide the couple into a new way of relating and help move them to deeper level of connection. The process uses relationship conflicts to uncover the true needs and feeling of partners who have become stuck in a destructive cycle of the power-struggle. Imago Relationship Therapy is much more than a specific way of communicating. It deepens the level of understanding and empathy between partners, creating new opportunities for growth and healing. Instead of dread, avoidance or angry outbursts, couples begin to talk and listen to each other in a calm, respectful manner and with interest. Each other’s differences of personality style and emotional expression take on a new meaning and suddenly make sense. Imago Relationship Therapy is very different from other types of couples work and has a profound impact on even the most conflicted of couples. The shift that occurs is quite dramatic and exciting.
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