INDIVIDUAL THERAPY
Individual therapy provides a vital space for identifying, understanding and transforming our suffering. Our challenges can often provide a gateway to deeper growth, understanding, and insight. Oftentimes we spend tremendous energy moving away from what is uncomfortable and painful and yet find ourselves more entangled and stuck. Therapy offers an opportunity to deepen awareness into our habitual thought patterns and behaviors that limit our capacity for openness, resilience, and kindness for ourselves and others.
COUPLES THERAPY
Intimate relationships have the potential to be profound vehicles for personal growth and spiritual change and hold an essential place in our lives. So much of our well-being, as well as our suffering, arises through the connection we have, or lack, with our partner. Couples choose to pursue therapy for a tune-up, for help navigating inevitable transitions in the life of a relationship (e.g. children, illness, etc...), or to create radical change in the partnership. Either way, investing energy into improving what is often the most important relationship in our lives has the potential for a deep impact on our quality of life.
In couples counseling, Kerry and Banjo both work from the Relational Life Therapy (RLT) model, as taught by Terry Real. We have been immersed in this valuable framework for years, engaging it both professionally and personally, and are Certified RLT Therapists. We realize that by being in relationship with ourselves and others in a way that is accountable, empathetic, and vulnerable, we are able to flourish as partners, parents, and professionals. We hope to help you do the same in your relational life.
Our quality of life is often proportionate to the health of our primary intimate relationships. RLT work is about working on ourselves, not our partner. This practice involves learning how to hold ourselves and our partner in warm regard while we move through the challenges that arise in our relationship.
We teach couples to practice full-respect living both in and out of our sessions. The work goes deep quickly, identifies the origins of the patterns, challenges the effectiveness of these behaviors and offers an alternative way of being together lovingly and handling conflict with finesse.