MADISON ALLEN PSY.D.
SPECIALIZED TRAINING & APPROACH
Gottman Method Therapy
Emotion Focused Therapy
Reality Therapy/Choice Theory
Cognitive-Behavioral Couples Therapy
Our sense of satisfaction and fulfillment in relationships is fundamental to our well-being and our ability to manage the challenges we face in life. I believe that our earliest and most significant relationships create models for how we interact with others and provide a mirror for how we view ourselves. I work with my clients to process these significant relationships and how they impact long-standing interpersonal patterns that can cause problems within our current relationships. By gaining insight into these patterns and making changes that prioritize the health of their relationship, couples are able to experience positive and meaningful improvements in their relationship.
My Approach to Therapy:
In therapy, I aim to provide a professional and secure space for couples to approach their relationship issues from a different angle. I assist client's gain insight into current and historical patterns that are impacting their relationship in order to increase understanding and knowledge of one another. We will work together to improve positive relationship behaviors, such as listening, attending to, and trusting one another, while decreasing maladaptive relationship behaviors, including criticizing, blaming, and contemptuous communication. In my work with couples, I heavily emphasize accountability and choice and I encourage partners to make choices that align with their relationship goals. It is through this integrative and comprehensive approach that I am able to help couples achieve an improved sense of relational health and satisfaction.
Evangelin Browne LMFT
SPECIALIZED TRAINING & APPROACH
Developmental Model of Couples Therapy
Family Systems Therapy
Gottman Method Therapy
I am a relationship counseling specialist supporting couples through The Developmental Stages of a relationship. Couples who see me come in with a variety of problems. Lack of communication is the number one expressed problem. However, that is a symptom of a problem. Problems start to surface after having established “we are a couple” though conflicts can and do arise during this phase. The next stage, discovering “we are different,” can be a sticky place for couples.
As each partner is expressing their own individual wants, needs, and desires; and listening to your partner’s wants, needs, and desires that appear different from your own can and do cause tension. Sometimes even increasing conflicts that appear unresolvable. But, hold strong, and be curious, getting to your partner more is very much needed as an essential foundation for your relationship to deepen and further your connection together. That is why you chose each other. The caveat is, being in a mutually affirming relationship takes work to reach the fruit; the relationship you both want to experience together.
It is not easy to reach the fruit together at the end of the limb.
It will take perseverance, some new skills to see beyond what you thought you knew, and might have not known. The next phase is “I want to be independent,” another area of growth and disruption. This is when one partner want to develop a personal identity apart from the couple relationship. Moving to the next phase, if the previous stages are successful, is, the “moving close, moving away," phase.
This part is when the couple solidify the ability to move close together and move apart without conflict or distress; but with confidence and security. The final phase is “one plus one is greater than two,” or mutual interdependence. At this stage, I rarely see couples at this point and if I do it is exceptional. Relationship with oneself, relationship with another, or others is a vital needed part of human interaction. Having understanding and feeling understood is the one feel good sensation we all want to experience more of.
Justine Devlin Ph.D.
SPECIALIZED TRAINING & APPROACH
Cognitive-Behavioral Couples Therapy for Trauma
Imago Interpersonal Couples Therapy
Discernment Counseling
Gottman Method Therapy
Throughout psychological literature, human connection has proven to be a basic need for human survival. In one study, baby monkeys preferred a soft place to lay their head versus being fed with a bottle by a wire monkey. They chose connection and love over their innate need for food. As humans, one of our basic needs is to feel loved, cared for and feel connected to others in their relationships. When relationships with partners, friends, or family members are strained and tense, it has a significant impact on our overall well-being.
This can lead to distrust in others to provide love and security, issues with intimacy, insecurities with our beliefs about being worthy/lovable, and difficulty communicating our needs to our loved ones in ways that we feel heard. Relationships are powerful and healing innately, through techniques including Gottman Therapy, couples behavior therapy, couples therapy for PTSD (if one or both partners have trauma), and family systems therapy, I will work with your relationship to chose which intervention would be most beneficial for your current needs.
My Role As A Provider
I take an active role in helping to identify the underlying source of distress in the relationship, and ways these issues have impacted various areas of functioning in the relationship. Once the primary concerns have been identified, the emphasis is on creating goals for the relationship and actively working to adapt unhealthy relationship dynamics with more helpful, healing communication patterns. We will discuss specific ways and skills to resolve each of the concerns and discern what patterns are working and which are not for the relationship currently.
Learning to reconnect with your partner, family member, or other significant person in your life is an invaluable investment in your overall wellness. I am passionate about creating a safe space where all parties feel heard, and have a voice. In therapy, the relationship is the client versus each individual as the goal is to heal and achieve growth in the relationship.
Brittany Carswell Ph.D.
SPECIALIZED TRAINING & APPROACH
Gottman Method Therapy (Level 3)
Relational Life Therapy
Certified Discernment Counselor
Emotion-Focused Therapy
Dr. Carswell has a waitlist and is not currently accepting new patients.
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