I work with individuals, families, parents, and couples (premarital, married, divorcing and divorced, co-parenting couples). My client is the relationship and my goal is that you experience new life in your relationship. Sometimes couples get stuck in familiar ways of functioning, and with therapy, can learn to function differently in a way that can change the dynamics of the relationship.
I am a structural family therapist who incorporates cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT). I then focus on identifying the core beliefs you hold that are triggered by your current circumstances and begin to challenge those beliefs so that you begin to have internal healing. It is important to work on the core belief, else we tend to couple and procreate before getting healed, and thus we pick partners and raise our children from our pain, thereby recreating our own wounds.
I create a non-judgmental environment, and am a avid believer in social justice, addressing disenfranchisement marginalization, sexism, poverty, and racism that can create maintain additional barriers in marriage.
