Rock Solid Relationships
- cheating
- full disclosure
- honesty
- transparency
- betrayal trauma
- feeling not heard
- loudness
- talking over
- bickering
- can't talk / won't talk
- stonewalling
- criticism
- following
- relational space
- defensiveness
- communicating love
- loss of love
- physical intimacy frustration
- boundaries
- irreconcilable differences
- cognitive distortions
- helpful cycles
- unhelpful cycles
"I work with couples and relationships in the areas of couple communication, relationship recovery and rebuilding trust and love."
"Research-based relationship tools and couple communication skills seem to enable couple connection and intimacy."
In the couple session …
Talk about the issues or hot topics
Learn how to communicate with each other
Change your future together
"When there's a struggle to communicate, intentional communication can bring hope and change."
Couples are often surprised at how relationship change can occur in when intentional communication is engaged and adopted.
This is non-clinical transformative relationship work."
Non-Clinical Relationship Work
My work is focused on relationship dynamics. This is to the exclusion of Mental Health Disorders (MHD) that may be contributing or cohabiting. Because I don't attend to MHD, it can be described as non-clinical work. While I do work with relationships where MHD are present, I suggest couples go to a clinical psycologist for MHD.
Scope of Practice
Instead of focusing on mental disorders, my focus is on improving relationship dynamics and couple communication.
Identifying cognitive distortions and gaining insight into helpful and unhelpful cycles that may be playing out is part of my work.
"For Zoom, make your appointment before noon. For F2F, make your appointment for after midday."
Zoom meetings can only happen in the mornings.
F2F Afternoons
Face2Face meetings happen in the afternoons and evenings.