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Therapeutic sessions are now offered both in person and via telehealth, based on personal preference. New clients will receive a free 10-15 min. phone consultation to discuss options and explore the best fit for you.
Maintaining our emotional and relational health is the foundation for healing and ultimately thriving in a world that feels chaotic and divisive to many. Let me support you in developing your most important internal resources and using this time of heightened stress to not only protect but strengthen the relationships that are most dear to you.
It is time to learn to be with grief, work honestly and openly with anxiety and fear, create structure…. loosely and with flexibility, and increase our tolerance and capacity for intense and evolving emotions.
Learn to "train" your nervous system and strengthen your heart’s capacity for greater resiliency and more rewarding love. As our bodies need to build tolerance to “intensity” to create lasting change, our nervous systems do as well. To “Rewire” our automatic reactions to emotional upset, we need a certain level of emotional intensity, along with newly engrained behaviors that can redesign the internal architecture of HOW we love. Let me help you develop intentional practices that can support your emotional tolerance and teach you how to access your greatest strength.
Seeking, creating, and maintaining love and intimacy is a bold and vulnerable adventure. Relationships can feel unpredictable and overwhelming as we integrate another's life into our own, as we blend stories and desires, meld perspectives, and attempt to create a balance of harmony and passion in our lives. Satisfaction in love tends to deteriorate over time, compounded by stress, work, children, and the absence of novelty in long-term relationships. Passion requires some uncertainty, but long-term love depends on security, and these needs can feel at odds with one another. Learning to develop the skills to tolerate and strengthen both sides of these opposing desires is a necessary quality for maintaining lasting intimacy.
Colorado Couples Clinic is dedicated to integrating advanced science and unique relational experiences to support people in cultivating the most rewarding relationships possible. Based on research in intimacy and neurobiology, we know how to help people "reorganize" the way the nervous system responds to relational stress and cultivate what research has shown to be the skills that are crucial for "rewiring relationship habits."
Intimacy requires building emotional muscles. We call it "Strength training for the heart."
We are changed by the people we love and by those who love us. Our nervous systems are literally designed through the relationships that have forged our capacity for love — for attaching and bonding with one another. People have an inherent need to belong and true intimacy requires us to tolerate differences while also knowing how to have our deepest needs met by another.
Angie Tsiatsos Phillips
Just as we have practices that strengthen our bodies, we need practices that strengthen our hearts — our ability to tolerate and regulate our emotions, our interactions with others, and our capacity for authentic intimacy.
At the Colorado Couples Clinic, we are dedicated to helping you rebuild your love, which means using RELATIONSHIP as a practice to stretch and strengthen your heart and to learn to tolerate the whole heart of your partner. We see the breakdown of relationship not as a failure but as the platform for necessary growth and evolution to occur, because it is when things fall apart — when we become broken — that we recognize the need to change.
“The wound is the place where the light enters you.” ~ Rumi
Our approach
Our integrative approach to developing healthy relationships is based on decades of empirical data and focuses first and foremost on each individual’s untapped, natural wisdom. In an effort to bridge the gap from rational understanding to rewiring relational habits from the inside out, our approach is threefold:
1. Through psycho-education, we enhance your understanding of advancements in neurobiology as well as experiential learning — practices that have proven successful at helping to “recondition” relational habits — and help you integrate them into your life.
2. We provide in-depth support based in attachment, neurobiology, mindfulness, and trauma-informed care to form an approach that examines the complex dynamics that manifest in our most intimate relationships.
3. Finally, Colorado Couples Clinic builds a foundation of trust with each person with whom we have the privilege to work. We honor the innate wisdom of personal experience and perspective so that we cultivate healthy relational habits from the ground up.
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Colorado Couples Clinic understands that finding the right therapist to support your most personal, intimate work is a choice not to be taken lightly. That’s why a free phone consultation is available so that your needs are understood and we can explore whether or not this is the right fit for your therapeutic goals.