"Knowing is the most profound kind of love, giving someone knowldege about ourself."
( Marsh Norman)

COUPLES

What is Imago Relationship Therapy:

Committed love relationships are the most powerful and prized of all human experiences and have the potential for the deepest personal and social healing. The mission of Imago is to create a new way to love and to transform the world one relationship at a time. To this end, Imago Relationships International develops and supports a global network of professionals and volunteers who are committed to using Imago theory and practices to help all interested persons create and sustain mutually fulfilling, healing, and egalitarian love relationships and to help parents rear whole and loving children in the service of improving the quality of society.

*Harville Hendrix, whose best seller, "Getting the Love You Want,"
 has been helping couples worldwide for years, developed IRT
Visit the website at www.Imagotherapy.com

How Does Imago Relationship Therapy Help:

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.

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 and change the dysfunction 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. 

How to speak, be heard and understood by each other in a new way.
 
How to really “get” your partners with true empathy.

How to create a safe relationship with each other where each can speak and be heard.

How to have fun and romance and bring 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 safe and nurturing environment for all members of the household.