Restoring Happiness and Fulfillment in Couples and Individuals
Do you feel as though your relationship has gotten off track? Do you miss the closeness you once shared with your partner? Have you lost touch with yourself, letting your priorities and goals go to the wayside? As an expert in couples counseling and individual coaching, I know I can help you.You can restore your relationship and yourself. Long lasting change is possible! I work with couples and individuals who want to understand how they got off track and learn new skills to help them feel closer, happier, and more fulfilled. With some small changes, you can communicate more effectively and bring back the meaning and happiness to your relationships.
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What are the benefits of Couples Counseling or Individual Coaching?
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Couples learn their patterns of behavior, or "cycle," and how to stop it. We often have the same disagreements more than once, and those disagreements usually end the same way. Couples counseling will help you discover what's really under the same fight you keep having, change the way you communicate, and help you learn what both you and your partner can do to change your cycle. By understanding the cycle you get caught in, you can change it, and have a much deeper, more secure, and more loving relationship.
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Learn what you need to feel secure in your relationship.What makes you feel good, loved, happy, and safe? Knowing the answer is half of the solution to colving your relationship challenges. Translating these needs to your partner in a way that he can act on them is the other half. In couples therapy, we will explore what triggers you, what makes you feel pushed away, as well as what brings your closer to your partner.
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Discover what your partner needs from your relationship. Every couple struggles from time to time and these challenges are a normal part of any relationship. Do you know why your partner gets angry when they do? Do you know what pushes them away from you? The answer may not be so simple. Learning about your partner's core values may reveal why you end up in conflict. A better understanding of your partner means a closer, more loving relationship.
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Make the changes in your life that will bring you happiness. As you think about your life now, are you where you want to be? Do you wake up feeling good about each day and looking forward to what lies ahead? If not, let's talk and explore what's missing from your life and your relationships that keep you from enjoying the life you deserve.
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Understand yourself like never before. Whether coming to individual counseling, marriage counsling or group therapy, you will learn a tremendous amount about yourself in the process. You'll discover what self-defeating beliefs are putting you at odds with your long-term goals, and we'll help leave those negative beliefs in order to reach your high potential.
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Joanna's Blog
- Relationship Rules: Tips on how to build a healthy love life with your spouse.
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Human beings crave intimacy, need to love and be loved. Yet people have much trouble doing so. From many sources and many experts, I have culled some basic rules of relationships. This is by no means an exhaustive list. But it's a start. Print them out and pin them up on your refrigerator door.
- The Art of Now: Six Steps to Living in the Moment
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Life unfolds in the present. But so often, we let the present slip away, allowing time to rush past unobserved and unseized, and squandering the precious seconds of our lives as we worry about the future and ruminate about what's past. "We're living in a world that contributes in a major way to mental fragmentation, disintegration, distraction, decoherence," says Buddhist scholar B. Alan Wallace.
- Book Recommendation for Couples - Hold Me Tight: Seven Conversations for a Lifetime of Love
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Heralded by the New York Times and Time magazine as the couple therapy with the highest rate of success, Emotionally Focused Therapy works because it views the love relationship as an attachment bond. This idea, once controversial, is now supported by science, and has become widely popular among therapists around the world. In HOLD ME TIGHT, Dr. Sue Johnson presents Emotionally Focused Therapy to the general public for the first time.
- Book Recommendation for Individuals - The Self Guided Journal
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This book uses a technique known as guided journaling to help readers teach themselves to vocalize their feelings, conquer self-doubt, discover their strengths—and generally change the way they think and feel about themselves for the better. The Self-Esteem Guided Journal offers you a ten-week program of writing exercises that will help you shift your focus from the things wrong with your life to the things that are right. The book begins with a week of journaling about non-judgment—regarding everything from people in the news to your own behavior. Weeks two and three guide you to discover your strengths and redefine your weaknesses.