Awakening Self through Relationships
I help couples to transform conflict, improve communication, and reconnect to build and rebuild a fulfilling and mutually caring relationship. Our work together can help you overcome feelings of frustration, helplessness and powerlessness and deepen your connection again with yourself and your partner.
Partners and their Challenges
Our partner is a mirror to ourselves and therefore a prime opportunity for deepening our own awareness and development. In this way, Couples work is not only a personal growth path but also a spiritual journey that draws each of us beyond our personal (and self-oriented) world.
I invite any form of relationship to our work. It is suitable for all types of partnerships, friendships, parent/child (from 18 years) configurations, and siblings, and regardless of sexual or gender choices.
What we can explore together:
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“Intimacy / safety / trust” within the relationship
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How to navigate your relationship as a healing process
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How you can be your best self in your relationship; how can there be room for your worst self?
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Seeing conflict as a gateway to connection and compassion
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Re-building an emotional connection to your partner
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Understanding and accepting personal differences
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Building more effective communication skills
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How to set healthy boundaries
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How to balance the apparently opposing needs of “adventure / individuality / freedom
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Your co-created habitual patterns - exploring blind spots, toxic behaviors and self-defeating dynamics
What does mentorship look like?
My couples counseling sessions bring a sharp focus on enhancing body awareness and supporting a greater expression of your feelings. The sessions include various movement exercises, work with feelings, and learning somatic practices for daily use.
We also explore each one’s history to bring appreciation for the origin of defensive patterns. This in turn can build empathy, mutual understanding and respect for each other’s struggles, and so provide the basis for mutual support. Living and embracing the full experience of energy, excitement, and passion, we find our healthy, authentic selves together with our partner.
Body-Based
Body-based couples counseling means working with body, emotions, and psyche as an integrated unit. As such our body can provide access to our often-unconscious drives and defenses. You will learn important skills of body awareness and movement, essential to shifting your entrenched thinking and behavioral patterns.
By accessing the wisdom of your body and learning how to be in connection from a vulnerable space, you will find more trust and support for and from yourself and your partner. If we don‘t dare to take the risk to allow ourselves to be seen in our incompleteness, imperfection and brokenness, we will not be able to experience the full range of our humanness. Rather than stay defended, you will learn to see your faults as opportunities, even while you embrace and accept those imperfections.