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Couples Therapy: Breaking Hurtful Patterns and Rebuilding Trust

A couple’s approach to navigating conflict can be an opportunity for strengthening the relationship; it can also feel like a landmine until it is addressed in periods of high tension. Does the same fight keep happening? Has trust been fractured? Are things feeling really messy ? Are you wanting a SOLUTION and a path forward? Getting stuck in blame rarely serves as a catalyst for change. Therapy with Esther offers a transformative journey, guiding you to communicate effectively about important issues while fostering productive interactions to facilitate progress. Unlike approaches that dwell on problem origins, Esther adopts a solution-focused stance. Esther helps people find balance in their relationships, foster hope and reinvigorate goals.

Navigating Infidelity

Esther gets how hard it can be to maintain or repair trust in a relationship, particularly when partners struggle after conflict, breaking agreements or an act of betrayal. Sometimes, escaping the cycle of empty repairs and punishing responses poses a HUGE challenge. Esther empowers couples to confront these painful dynamics, urging them to consider what they really want and to identify mutually supportive ways to achieve these goals. Real change occurs when focus shifts from dwelling in blame to seeking taking steps towards positive contributions to the relationship. Recognizing that healing involves acknowledging wounds, Esther adeptly supports couples, ESPECIALLY in scenarios where one partner exhibits greater commitment to therapy. Esther has a lot of experience working with couples with only one member of the couple at a time- this approach can speed up results, offer an option when only one person wants therapy and is a tool that many therapists are unaware of.

Overcoming Depression and Anxiety in the Context of the Relationship

Depression, trauma, and anxiety can cast a shadow over a relationship, influencing how partners show up in the relationship. Regardless of whether a partner’s anxiety is about the relationship or other factors, these struggles seldom occur in isolation and can affect relational dynamics which then feedback into the way anxiety or other problems are manifesting. Esther collaborates closely with couples to tackle these challenges head on, equipping them with evidence-based tools and strategies to communicate effectively and manage the difficulties they are facing. Esther helps people look at how problems show up in the context of relationships, she helps people find healing ways at looking at these obstacles and she helps reframes struggles as opportunities for profound healing and growth, fostering resilience in the face of hardship. A major part of this is facilitating conversation where realistic expectations can be developed along with the skills to accept them and promote change where it is necessary, each person in their own way.

Unwanted Substance Use Within the Relationship

Esther helps many couples treat unwanted substance use. Too often, the management of addiction becomes a huge strain and vicious cycle within relationships and families Esther helps couples, parents and families undo hurtful and unproductive ways of coping and attempts to control substance use. She takes a respectful stance and builds a foundation that accounts for realistic expectations. There are many communication lags that often perpetuate negative outcomes; Esther helps people choose intentionally. She helps people come up with productive coping and approaches to the usage and communicate about it more effectively. This helps people manage the relationship with less hostility and more mutual goals and understanding.