14583 Big Basin Way, Saratoga, CA
Scotts Valley & Santa Cruz locations also
couplestherapythatworks@gmail.com
408-357-9187
What does it REALLY take?? to create
EXTRAORDINARY & EVOLVED RELATIONSHIPS
Couples, Families, Friends, Co-workers, All Human Beings
10 week ZOOM course
It takes education about relationships and
the development of personal qualities, skills & tools
Learn the essential healthy relationship information that I teach in couples and family therapy at a fraction of the cost (about 10%)
COMING AGAIN LATE SPRING 2025
DEVELOP:
Communication skills - NVC, reflective listening - really GETTING the other person's world, communicating from softer, more vulnerable and primary emotions
Gratitude, fondness, & admiration for each other
Love practices - Love languages, the 5 A's, Self-Love & Self-Conection
Somatic Awareness - Discover the wisdom your body has to share with you
Self Awareness - Develop a deeper understanding of yourself so that your beliefs, patterns, behaviors,
trauma, etc. aren't in charge.
A Secure-Functioning Relationship - that is a refuge, secure base and safe-haven from life, rather than an additional source of struggle.
Your VAT - Vulnerability-Authenticity-Transparency: Learn to be your AUTHENTIC self in relationship and experience the beauty and power of being FULLY YOU.
Accountability: Ownership-Taking Responsibility-Accountability: Learn how this practice takes the blame & shame off of the other person by acknowledging your role in the issue instead.
Compassion & Empathy: Show up as a compassionate, understanding, kind, forgiving, accepting and allowing partner
LEARN ABOUT:
Feelings & Needs - Identify feelings & universal human needs at the root of all relationship challenges
TRRIUUNFH - Timing, Regulation, Refrain, Individual, Utilize, Understand, Needs, Feelings
Childhood issues - Find out how what happened to you then is playing out now
Attachment & Attachment styles - are ALWAYS at play in relationships
Your thinking mind: Affirmations/Declarations, Beliefs & Stories - Discover how beliefs and stories are running your "relationship show" and how affirmations/declarations can be used to create new intentions to steer you and you relationship in a new direction.
Your cycle and pattern - that repeats over & over - I utilize the EFT (emotionally focused therapy) model to explore and transform challenging communication cycles
The relationship brain & nervous system - The amygdala, pre-frontal cortex, implicit memory (related to "wounding" and trauma) sympathetic & parasympathetic nervous system, auto, self and co-regulation and REWIRING THE BRAIN FOR GREATER HAPPINESS.
Adaptive/Survival Parts - We all have a whole family of parts inside contributing to our relationship - Who's driving your relationship bus?
THIS IS A CLASS & NOT GROUP THERAPY
FREE ONE HOUR ZOOM TRIAL CLASSES:
COMING LATE SPRING 2025
FEES:
$275 per individual
$475 per couple (can be any two people)
$595 per family (can be any three people)
$150 for each additional person
Contact me for payment by paypal or IVY app:
Limited sliding scale spots available
408-357-9187