Helping Couples Navigating Mid-Life Challenges
Mid-life can be a transformative period for couples, often filled with unique challenges and opportunities. My sessions are designed to help partners reconnect and navigate this pivotal phase together. We will focus on critical aspects of mid-life dynamics and promote emotional intimacy, resilience, and effective communication.
The 1st invitation: Identifying Changes and Challenges
In our first session, couples will explore the common challenges associated with mid-life, such as career transitions, health issues, and shifts in family dynamics. Guided conversations will help each partner articulate their feelings and concerns, identify the four Horseman (Gottman), and set the foundation for deeper understanding.
The 2nd Invitation: Enhancing Communication
Effective communication is key to a healthy relationship, especially during challenging times. This session will focus on improving listening skills and fostering open dialogue. Couples will practice techniques using Marshall Rosenberg’s Nonviolent Communication practices to express their feelings, needs, and requests, paving the way for a more supportive partnership.
The 3rd Invitation: Turning Towards Each Other
Mid-life often prompts a reassessment of shared aspirations. In this session, couples will identify and discuss their individual goals and dreams. They will look at how they bid for each other’s attention and at their fondess and admiration systems.
The 4th Invitation: Harmony, Disharmony, Repair.
Couples will learn new skills to master repair after conflict occurs. They will learn to accept each other’s influence in new ways and how to have more collaborative conversations.
The 5th Invitation: A Beginner’s Hold Me Tight Conversation
Couples will consolidate what they’ve learned and develop a plan for moving forward together, addressing both immediate needs and long-term aspirations. This session will empower couples to embrace the future as a united front, equipped with refreshed goals and meaningful rituals.
Per session cost is $225 for 55 minutes.
Package Price is $975 for five sessions.
EQ Communication Skills for Couples
We all know communication is a vital nutrient in relationships, so why are so many of us living in a painful deprivation? Let me help you learn the effective tools of Non-violent Communication by Marshall Rosenberg in a compassionate and curious way. We will focus in on all four areas and create more safety and connection.
Session 1: Screen for the 4 Horseman
In our first session, we’ll explore what an areas of chaos you have as a couple. Through guided discussions and exercises, we'll identify areas of conflict and distress. This session helps establish a foundation of understanding regarding the differences between solvable and unsolvable problems.
Session 2: How to have an Observer’s Tone
We will learn the difference between observations and evaluations. We will identify parts of ourselves, and our partners, in a loving a curiuos way, who sometimes speak with a harsh or loaded tone. Who sometimes use loaded words like “always, and never.” Who build walls and turn our partners into strangers instead of friends.
Let’s ditch the blame and judgment.
Session 3: Recognizing Feelings and Needs
The fourth session focuses on understanding the underlying feelings and needs. What if you could safely say the things you long for? Couples will be guided in recognizing their own needs and those of their partner. By articulating these needs clearly, couples can move toward collaborative problem-solving,.
Session 4: Making Requests that Would Enrich Life
Go ahead, dream big. See you lover in the light again. Share a meal together in a place you have always wanted to go. Play a song that reminds you of somethig important in your past. This is your person. The one who can dive into the present moment with you like no one else can. Remember that dream, when everything else fell away while in your
Couples Bubble
not perfect, but a haven nonetheless.
In this 4th session, couples will learn how to make clear and constructive requests to help keep your love afloat. This session combines all the skills developed over the previous sessions, allowing partners to practice and role-play real-life scenarios.
By the end of this-session package, couples will have a solid foundation in Non-Violent Communication skills, empowering them to communicate with empathy, connect more deeply, and resolve conflicts peacefully. They will know if they are ready to join me on the second tier of my couples counseling offerings.
Per session cost is $225 for 55 minutes.
Package Price is $800 for all four sessions.