Initial Assessment: 
Exploration & Feedback 

Your journey will start with an intensive 90-minute therapy session where you will explore issues, review results from the Gottman Relationship Checkup, identify  your goals, and create an individualized treatment plan. Couples conclude this initial exploration and feedback session with a better sense of their relational strengths, weaknesses, and needs. Partners will dive deep into the heart of relational issues and set the path for connection, healing and growth. 

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Stage One:
Deepening Understanding

In this phase couples work to deepen understanding, de-escalate conflict, and tune into the underlying needs and desires that fuel discontent. Couples upend destructive relational patterns and become allies in conquering life stressors. Partners reflect on patterns and begin to approach complex issues with clarity, unity, and compassion. Through this process, partners will better understand themselves and each other, and gain valuable insight into what they need to do next for the relationship to grow.

Stage Two:
Enhancing Skills

Stage two focuses on integrating critical relationship skills that will foster lasting and meaningful change. Couples practice listening and reflecting, effectively navigating conflict, sharing feelings authentically, and initiating successful repair after regrettable interactions. Couples will develop new relationship patterns that foster lasting friendship, understanding, and connection. Couples move into stage three with a deep understanding of what makes relationships work and the skills to achieve and sustain the intimacy they desire. 

Stage Three:
Embracing a New Dance

And finally, as partners form a new relational dance, they work to reinforce healthy patterns and embrace new ways of being and relating. Couples will discuss ongoing challenges, create rituals for connection, and identify ways to maintain intimacy and affection through the shifting seasons of life. Therapy begins to reach a natural conclusion during this stage, as couples feel empowered to manage relationship stressors and turn toward each other during difficult times. 

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