Clinical Focus
I am an intimate relationship psychologist. I work with couples, individuals, and families who want more connected and closer relationships, within themselves, and with the ones they love. I specialize in marital/couples emotionally-focused psychotherapy. More about clinical focus...
Education
I received my B.A. in Psychology from The Ohio State University in 1984 and my Psy.D. from the Wright State University School of Professional Psychology in 1988. I have over twenty eight years of experience working with individuals, couples, families, and groups. More about education...
The Therapy Process
Are you feeling lonely and misunderstood in your relationship? Disconnected? Unloved? Not valued? Have you lost your "spark"?
Do you want to feel loved, understood, and secure with your partner? Do you want to know that your partner is truly there for you, and you for them? That you are on the same team? Not enemies? Not just roommates?
Intimate relationships are among the most challenging experiences we face. They are also among the most fulfilling, joyful, and enriching processes we undertake.
Even amidst pain and disconnection, two committed partners can heal wounds, build trust, and develop a secure and emotionally deep connection. I work to set an open, safe, collaborative, compassionate, and understanding place for couples to repair wounds, regain trust, and create an emotionally experienced, securely bonded connection.
Within this atmosphere, we will work together to "slow down" and explore painful repetitive, mutually created cycles that seem out of control. These cycles are then understood as unwittingly developed obstacles to true intimacy that occur in all couples. The cycle, then, rather than the partner, is seen as to blame for the disconnection, and you can learn to stop blaming each other. You are now on the same team.
Together we will understand deeper emotions and interpretations of yourself and your partner that drive hurtful behaviors. Old disconnective patterns are changed. New intimate patterns of closeness are developed. You will then be able to convey yourselves in an authentic and transparent manner which leaves both of you feeling more securely loved and more deeply understood.
This transformation is sustainable, as well as sustaining, for your connected intimate relationship which you can then trust to withstand the inevitable pains and ruptures that occur in any long term committed intimate relationship.
Intimate committed relationships truly have the power to heal wounds, to empower emotional growth, engender wisdom, and ultimately unfold a deep union with self, partner, and all of life itself.
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