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Relationship and Couples Therapy ♦ PSI Institute 254 Lincoln Road Henderson Waitakere City West Auckland New Zealand ♦ Phone: +64(09) 835-1929 ♦
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Couples and Family Therapy offers a safe place where each person can be heard, first by the therapist, and ultimately by each other. This type of therapy tends to be more efficient than individual therapy because you get to work through your relationship issues together, as a team. It helps to clarify the issues. Sometimes the therapist acts as a translator, but not as a referee. It helps to start by exploring the strengths of the relationship, and what makes for positive mutual experiences. Sometimes understanding the history of the problem in your relationship and the histories that each individual brings to the relationship can help to uncover familial patterns that may be repeating themselves through the generations. When this is the case, We can use a genogram- an emotional family tree of interactional patterns - to help you understand where some basic assumptions and communication styles may come from. Understanding this will help you see each other more accurately, with less intrusion from past relationships. You may begin to remember what drew you to each other, and what you have to offer each other over the long run. Relationships can bring out the best and the worst in us, cause us heartbreak and ecstasy. Our romantic relationships, be they heterosexual or gay, within or outside of the institution of marriage, intimate, distant, or from afar, effect all other aspects of our lives. So too do our relationships with other family members. They are too important to treat lightly. When problems arise, the earlier the intervention, the easier it is to get back on course. For non-traditional families and couples see: Relationship Counseling Page For a description of Couples and Family Therapy Approaches see: Family Therapy Page 10 MYTHS ABOUT "HAPPY COUPLES" 1.
Arguing = trouble.
5.
You have to agree on the
BIG issues (like children, sex and money).
7. Couples divorce because they get older and change physically. 8. The more sex the better.
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A fat woman will
lose her man.
For more on this see:
Myths and Truths about "Happy Couples" Judy Lightstone, PhDhas been providing therapy for couples and families for the past 24 years and training professional therapists to do this work for the past 22 years. She received her PhD in Humanities with a specialisation in trauma psychology in 2006, and offers counselling services in West Auckland. Clients describe her as gentle and compassionate in a strong way, tempered by an easy sense of humor. She helps couples become more aware of themselves and each other's interactional patterns, and offers support and advocacy as they learn to live with greater understanding of each other and the world at large. She integrates Hakomi Couples Therapy, which teaches bodily mindfulness and empathy with self and other, Imago Therapy, which offers ways for partners to be more loving and compassionate with one another, Bowenian Therapy which uses a genogram- something akin to an emotional family tree that maps out the family system pictorially, with the research of John Gottman into a whole couple/family system approach she calls Psychosomatic Integration (PSI). To view a more detailed description of her approach to working with families, click here. PhD, M.S., M.A., NZ Registered Psychologist #90-03237, Approved EMDR International Association provider of professional education Couples and family sessions are charged at $162 per 60 minute session, GST inclusive Auckland PSITM (PsychoSomatic Integration) Institute and Psychotherapy254 Lincoln Road, Suite 5, Henderson, West Auckland, New Zealand Office right off the Western Motorway For map and directions click here Phone: (09) 835 1929
Related Articles:
Family
Therapy Page,
Myths
and Truths about "Happy Couples";
Relationship
Issues;
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