Want to rekindle the positive feelings you once felt in your relationship and have more closeness? Remember when you were best friends?
In couple’s therapy, I actively guide and coach couples to interacting in ways which research shows create closeness and connection. After experiencing this in my office, you will practice using the same methods at home. These experiences begin to rebuild and strethen the friendship in your relationship .Affection and positive feelings will begin to grow once again.
Too much fighting going on? Are you living with anger and distance?
You will need guidance and personalized instruction in a supportive atmosphere to learn to use vital skills to resolve difficult conflicts in ways which strengthen your relatioship rather than damage it. How ? You will learn to use key communication skills for dealing with difficult issues. Interacting in these new ways breaks you out of your old patterns and allow you to be heard, understood and accepted by each other again. These improvements help build a bridge between partners, and, replace anger with empathy.
Linda Miller, Senior Certified Master Gottman Marital Therapist, is one of the most experienced and highly skilled Certified Gottman Marital Therapists in California, having been trained personally by John and Julie Gottman in 2001.
Her skills in helping couples powerfully change are enhanced by extensive advanced training in both Emotionally-Focused Therapy with Sue Johnson and in Imago Therapy
with Harville Hendrix. She completed the Advanced Externship in Emotionally-Focused Therapy in 2007.
What is a couple’s therapy session like?
Most of the time in a therapy session, the couple are facing each other and talking to each other while I am actively coaching them to express themselves using specific tools and techniques which Gottman’s research has shown lead to a satisfying long term relationship. In sessions, couples are taught methods and carefully coached to use them. You will gain practice and comfort using methods for dealing with resolvable problems and using a different approach for working through gridlocked problems. Gridlocked problems are usually the matters which cause greatest discord and distress.
Premarital Couples Counseling
Offered to help couples learn to use the skills and practices which lead to a long term happy marriage.
260 Sheridan Ave,
Palo Alto, CA 94306
Phone: (650) 269-6875
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