As a Certified Imago Relationship Therapist, I offer couples counselling utilizing the Imago Relationship Therapy (IRT) model. IRT is a highly effective communication theory and therapy designed with a focus on committed romantic partnerships. IRT helps to restore connection through helping each partner to feel truly heard and understood.

IRT views the goal of a mature romantic relationship to be one of full consciousness, wherein each partner commits to intentionally helping to work through the inevitable power struggle that develops in virtually all long term relationships. Through the Imago dialogue, couples learn to restore and to further deepen genuine contact and connection. Couples learn how to become "curious instead of furious" and that "conflict is actually positive growth trying to happen."

When working with couples, I teach how to identify the underpinnings of stuck perceptions; how to diffuse reactivity and how to begin to communicate in ways that ultimately result in each member of the couple feeling heard and understood by their partner, and being able to do the same in return. As a couple’s conscious communication skills develop, previously challenging topics can increasingly be addressed with neutrality and curiosity. In this way, each member of the couple is able to develop new insights about themselves and their part in the biosphere they have co-created with their partner. Each member of the couple can then feel more able to make increasingly conscious communication choices that help to deepen understanding of their own behaviors and those of their partner as well.

With these new skills, a more compassionate, attunement and rewarding connection becomes possible.

IRT views the goal of a mature romantic relationship to be one of full consciousness, wherein each partner commits to intentionally helping to work through the inevitable power struggle that develops in virtually all long term relationships. Through the Imago dialogue, couples learn to restore and to further deepen genuine contact and connection. Couples learn how to become "curious instead of furious" and that "conflict is actually positive growth trying to happen."