Developed by Drs. John and Julie Gottman, they were profiled in Malcolm Gladwell’s bestseller Blink for their ability to predict a couple’s likelihood of divorce with 94% accuracy after just a few minutes of observation. Psychotherapy Networker, a professional journal, recognized the Gottman’s as one of the ten most influential therapists of the past 25 years.

The goals of Gottman Method Couples Therapy are to disarm conflicting verbal communication; increase intimacy, respect, and affection; remove barriers that create a feeling of stagnancy; and create a heightened sense of empathy and understanding within the context of the relationship.

Emotionally Focused Therapy is a evidence based model created by Susan M. Johnson, EdD.

It is a short term treatment model that treats couples, families, and individuals through experiential corrective experiences that alleviate symptoms of disconnection from others and ourselves. It is a psychotherapeutic approach that grounded in 50 years of attachment science that has treated emotional problems ranging from anxiety to depression.

At the most basic level, there is an understanding that change generally involves making the unconscious conscious by evaluating how our internal beliefs, thoughts, and parts that we reject about ourselves are influencing our behaviors, and relationship patterns.

This approach believes a family is a whole, complex, single system; each member’s behaviors can impact another member. The family will maintain everyone’s roles within it by the system attempts to return to its original state wherein members are functional and comfortable. Sometimes this leads to roles or ways of being that are not healthy for everyone. Change can occur when a family system acknowledges that a particular family pattern is dysfunctional and identifies new processes that support the family’s goals.

Humanistic psychology is a perspective that emphasizes looking at the the whole person, and the uniqueness of each individual. Humanistic psychology begins with the existential assumptions that people have free will and are motivated to achieve their potential and self-actualize. Meaning, I am merely a guide to help you find the answers that are already within you.

As a existential therapist, I recognize that human influence is shaped by biology, culture, and external influences. Existential therapy assumes the belief that people's problems come from not exercising choice and judgment enough--or well enough--to forge meaning in their lives, and that each individual is responsible for making meaning out of life. Outside forces, however, may contribute to the individual's limited ability to exercise choice and live a meaningful life.