San Carlos Marriage Counseling

If you are living in San Carlos and looking for couples therapy, you came to the right place. If you're bringing children into a relationship it can bring lots of stress and may change the dynamics of your relationship. As the saying goes, the days are long but the years are short. Its common for marital satisfaction to decrease after having children but that can be mitigated for folks living in San Carlos and looking for couples therapy. 

If you are in San Carlos and have been together for decades but have gone adrift with a steady slide, I want to get you back on track with couples therapy. Couples have to continue to fall in love with each other in different ways as they move through the aging process together. Using evidence-based interventions, my aim is to provide a space for San Carlos couples to reconnect again and being the focus back to each other in couples therapy. 

As a couples counseling specialist and a previous therapist on staff at the renowned Couples Institute in Silicon Valley, I bring a significant amount of training and experience about relationships based on the following:

The Gottman Method

The Gottman Method was developed by Dr. John Gottman and Dr. Julie Schwartz Gottman in the 1980s. I use lots of Gottman couples therapy for those that live in San Carlos. It is an evidence-based form of couples therapy that strives to assist couples in achieving a deeper sense of understanding, awareness, empathy, and connectedness within their relationships that ultimately leads to heightened intimacy and interpersonal growth. By combining therapeutic interventions with couples exercises, this type of couples therapy helps couples from San Carlos identify and address the natural defenses that hinder effective communication and bonding.

Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT)

Emotionally focused therapy, an intervention based on scientific study of adult love and bonding processes in couples, is designed to address distress in the intimate relationships of adults living in San Carlos looking for couples therapy. Strategies from emotionally focused therapy can also be used in family therapy to help family members connect and improve emotional attachment. San Carlos residents seeking couples therapy to improve their relationships may find this method a beneficial approach, as it can help people better understand both their own emotional responses and those of significant people in their lives.

Imago Relationship Therapy (IRT)

Imago relationship therapy (IRT) aims to equip San Carlos couples with the tools necessary to relate to each other in healthier ways, and reveal the emotional pathway formed in childhood that led them to their current situation. This form of couples therapy combines spiritual and behavioral techniques with Western psychological methodologies in order to assist couples in unveiling their unconscious components. Imago relationship couples therapy involves viewing a conflict between couples as merely the outcome of specific circumstances-not the cause of disharmony. By examining the conflict itself, a San Carlos couple can arrive at a satisfying solution, heal, and then grow together.

Psychobiological Approach to Couples Therapy (PACT)

The Psychobiological Approach to Couples Therapy (PACT) relies on the application of research in neuroscience and attachment theory to improve interactions between couples from San Carlos. This approach, which was developed by Stan Tatkin, aims to help San Carlos couples notice their reactions as they occur and learn how to better address one another's attachment needs.

Developmental Model of Couples Therapy

The developmental model of couples therapy is an approach to relationship counseling for San Carlos residents that focuses on the growth and development of each partner individually in addition to the growth and development of the couple as a unit. This approach assumes long-term relationships naturally change over time as they progress through a series of predictable developmental stages.  

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