instead of creating the perfect love.” -Tom Robbins
When relationships are headed for trouble, there are methods to gain greater understanding and compassion for our partner, learning new skills to break the destructive cycles: Therapy can help get a couple past the impasse in order to turn the relationship around. Structural format of Dr. Austin’s Couple’s Counselling is based on the “IMAGO” principles of Harville Hendrix, the world reknowned couple’s therapy expert.
What you will gain in couple’s therapy…
- Learn new communication skills to transform the negative energy
of arguments into greater understanding and safety.
- Letting go of the power struggle and reconnecting with the vision of your relationship.
- Discover why you were attracted to each other and why you are now in conflict.
- Learn to use relationships for emotional healing and personal growth. Creating a safe sharing space where conflict can be expressed.
- Learn how the unmet needs of your childhood created unfinished business with your romantic partner.
- Discover healthy personal boundaries that will support you and your partner.
- Additonally, therapy can also be a forum for couples who are contemplating divorce or separation, as well as couples who have experienced infidelity in their relationship.
Imago is effective as a way to create stronger relationships, because it helps us become more aware of the way that we are all deeply interconnected. It offers insights into the unconscious agenda we bring to our relationships. With this information, we can begin to co-operate with this hidden agenda. As a result, we can choose to grow together in a creative, non-controlling, and healing way that creates understanding and connection.