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I use Imago Relationship Therapy in relationship counseling because I have found it to be the most effective form of couple’s work that I have come across. Couples who use what they learn can transform their marriage or relationship and deepen their connection.

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Imago Relationship Therapy is a form of couples therapy that focuses on relational counseling that transforms a conflict into an opportunity to grow and heal. Imago therapy is accessible for all partners in romantic relationships, no matter the sexual orientation. Imago therapy has the goal of allowing couples to understand each other's feelings, childhood trauma, and wounds on a more empathetic level. Using a deeper level of empathy to understand someone will allow couples to better understand their relationship on a personal level and romantic level. Doing this will allow the couple to better consciously understand their relationship.

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Why Imago Therapy?

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• Imago Relationship Therapy believes that individuals are wounded in relationships which results in trigger points and frozen needs, and that the healing of both the individual and the relationship happen in learning how to create an emotionally safe connection.

• Imago therapy empowers couples and individuals with tools, skills and principles that they can learn and use on their own, thereby reducing dependence on a therapist.

• Imago therapy helps normalize and make sense of most of the distress that happens between spouses / partners, and the understanding can help open more creative approaches that honor both partner’s needs and concerns.  Conflicts make sense.  Most people don’t need a diagnosis of a ‘mental disorder’ simply because they have a distressful marriage or relationship.  Imago therapy does not pathologize your distress or disconnection.

• Imago therapy dialogue and other tools promote connection and emotional intimacy without losing one’s self in the process. Couples learn how to respect differences, the fact that your partner is not you, yet still grow and deepen connection.

• Imago therapy increases compassion, even when you don’t like what your spouse or partner does, and it provides more internal motivation for successful change.

• Imago therapy helps couples respect the needs and concerns of both partners, and opens up more possibilities for win-win approaches to conflict.  Many times, it helps simply dissolve a conflict.

• As with any therapy, Imago therapy works if you work to use the tools, skills and information you learn.  

• One beautiful thing about Imago therapy is that the principles can be applied to any relationship, even though you may slightly modify some of the tools.