PHASES OF INDIVIDUAL THERAPY

Phase 1: Getting to Know You and Your World

  • Connecting, building rapport, and getting to know each other
  • Understanding your history, relationships, stressors, and day to day
  • Creating a space where you can show up honestly and be met

Phase 2: Creating a Road Map for Support

  • Clarifying our focus and intentions for therapy
  • Identifying priorities and pacing the work in a way that feels doable
  • Setting a shared direction so therapy feels intentional

Phase 3: Understanding What’s Working (and What’s Not)

  • Exploring challenges, patterns, and current obstacles
  • Naming needs, boundaries, and limits with more clarity
  • Making sense of reactions, habits, and relational dynamics without judgment

Phase 4: Integrating the Work

  • Connecting insight with lived experience
  • Giving emotions and experiences the space they need to settle and make sense
  • Allowing change to take root in how you feel, relate, and respond

Phase 5: Feeling More Connected to Yourself

  • Developing a stronger relationship with your own well-being
  • Building self-trust, awareness, and emotional steadiness
  • Feeling more aligned, grounded, and able to care for yourself over time

PHASES OF COUPLES THERAPY

Phase 1: Understand Your Relationship

Phase 3: Repair and Reconnect, Together

Phase 1: Understand Your Relationship

We start by getting to know your relationship. What is working, what has been challenging, and what each of you is experiencing. This phase is about creating a space where both partners feel heard and respected, and setting a clear direction so the work feels balanced and intentional.

Phase 2: Creating a Shared Focus

Phase 3: Repair and Reconnect, Together

Phase 1: Understand Your Relationship

Together, we identify key focus areas and shared goals. We look at the patterns or cycles that keep showing up, especially the ones that brought you in. This phase helps both partners understand what is happening between you, rather than feeling stuck blaming yourselves or each other.

Phase 3: Repair and Reconnect, Together

Phase 3: Repair and Reconnect, Together

Phase 3: Repair and Reconnect, Together

This is where change begins to take shape. We work on resolving stuck patterns, strengthening emotional connection, repairing trust, and developing new ways of responding to each other. The goal may be reconnection, clearer communication, or breaking long-standing conflict cycles, depending on your relationship.

Phase 4: Integrating Couples Work

Phase 3: Repair and Reconnect, Together

Phase 3: Repair and Reconnect, Together

In this phase, we focus on bringing what you have learned into your day-to-day relationship. We strengthen your bond, support ongoing repair, and help you feel more confident navigating challenges together. The work becomes something you carry forward, not something that stays in the therapy room.