IMAGO THERAPY

Develop processes to discover core issues of conflict in your relationship.

Develop skills to communicate with your partner to help develop improved ways of dealing with conflicts.

This approach to MARRIAGE COUNSELING OR COUPLE'S COUNSELING is the one process that will help you heal your relationship. Imago Relationship Therapy has been developed by Harville Hendrix, Ph.D. author of "Getting the Love You Want" and "Keeping the Love You Find". The ultimate goal of the process is to assist couples in learning how to find the safe, passionate relationship of their dreams and heal the pain which keeps them in a power struggle. 

Couples do this by learning what their core issue is, what unresolved conflicts from their past perpetuates that core issue, and skills and processes which teach the couple ways of relating to each other at a deeper more intimate level and heal the pain. 

Imago Relationship Therapy is designed to give couples a process which they can take home and continue the journey of healing outside therapy. 

My treatment plan is a holistic, three-fold approach with education, individual or couples therapy (whichever is appropriate), and group therapy intertwined throughout treatment. Because addiction affects the entire family system, I also encourage treatment for a spouse or partner with group therapy and at times couples therapy. I offer 1, 2, or 3 day intensives if that is an appropriate approach which is often for those who travel or out of the area of Central Florida. 

I depend on the work of Pat Carnes as well as Mark Laaser's approach. These are task centered methods to form the basis of my treatment plan. If couples therapy is recommended I use an Imago Relationship Therapy model which gives couples skills and processes to use outside of the office and find the root causes of addictive behavior. Treatment begins with a confidential assessment session of 90 minutes. During this time, we discuss the addictive and compulsive behaviors that are causing pain for you and your loved ones. 

My assessment involves evaluating the consequences of sex addiction on marriage, family, and other meaningful relationships; and ramifications in the work, social, spiritual, and financial realms. There are often significant and catastrophic repercussions of sex addiction such as divorce, job loss, physical injury or even criminal arrest.