ABOUT IMAGO
RELATIONSHIP THERAPY
We experience conflicts, disconnects, break ups in our relationships. What we don't know and often do not do is successfully repair the raptures. Often, we deal with the situation by trying to ignore it, forget about it or repress our feeling only to have them pile up and cause us more pain loneliness anger and possible helplessness. IMAGO is a healing dialogue. It is a tool and a pathway that helps us repair the disconnect in our relationships in an intimate way. It teaches healthy dialogue that is the core of healthy relationships that create healthy and happy individuals, couples and healthy families. IMAGO is dedicated to strengthen committed relationships through healing dialogue by resolving historical internal conflicts which allow couples to develop more loving passionate and fulfilling relationship, the condition to getting and keeping the love they want. Couples might engage in an intensive IMAGO Relationship Therapy by attending longer sessions or by contracting a marathon consultation experience of 2-6 hours on multiple consecutive days. This modality is especially convenient for couples whose busy schedule or possibly out of town residence makes attending weekly hour session difficult. Follow up can be done via phone as well as by resuming the traditional model.ABOUT RELATIONSHIP EMPOWERMENT COACHING
This modality is based on principals developed byTerry Real in his Relational Recovery work. This is a dynamic and highly effective modality of working with couples that produces quick results. Couples learn new skills with the focus on "joining through the truth".
Couples learn to identify the losing relationship patterns that dominate their interactions and are guided in practicing relational empowerment strategies based on healthy communication skills.
Partners are taught how to break out of traditional cultural sex male-female
roles, and move into an adult relationship between equals, based on passionate closeness. Women learn how to be assertive with their men and men learn to reclaim their emotional voice.
Couples can contract one hour weekly sessions or choose a more intensive initial experience of two to three hour weekly sessions. Sessions intensity is reduced as progress actualizes.
Full day sessions are available for couples who seek to master many skills in relatively short period of time and for those who attend from a farther geographic area.
Telephone coaching is available for couples who are interested in enhancing their relationship by improving communication skills acheiving a higher level of intimacy in their relationship. Telephone sessions are conducted weekly for one or one and half hours. Couples will be given specific assignments to practice between coaching sessions.
ABOUT INTENSIVE SHORT TERM
DYNAMIC PSYCHOTHERAPY (ISTDP)
This therapy helps individuals get to the bottom of their difficulties in one or two sessions. Often when we have historical inner conflicts we might experience discomforts such as anxieties, depressions, panics and other confusing feelings and reactions. Some individuals might have difficulties managing their strong negative feelings such as anger, guilt, or jealosy which result in reactions that feel like being out of control or going crazy. Often we try different ways to resolve these conflicts. However no matter what we try and who we consult with, we are unable to stop these experiences and reactions. We continue to experience frustrations and pain in our personal or professional life.Intensive Short Term dynamic therapy is a modality of helping individuals become aware of coping skills that keeps them stuck. This therapy identifies the self subotaging and self destructive emotional reactions individuals choose which perpetuate their personal and relational unhappiness. ISTDP can help empower and restore one's confidence by challenging and encouraging inner honesty. Individuals are encouraged to adopt new and more productive ways of coping with their life challenges. Through education, insight and working through of past emotional traumas, individuals will experience healing of old wounds and regain courage and confidence to move forward in their personal and professional life. They will reconnect with their full potential and inner strength necessary to getting the love they desire and the success they deserve.ABOUT DIVORCE MEDIATION
This service is for both partners, who decid to terminate their committed relationship and who seek to form a separation/divorce agreement that is fair to both partners in a safe fair and empowering manner. Mediation's goal is to avoid litigation and other hostilities which are caused by the adversarial nature of a court battle. Mediation focuses on helping couples dissolve their marriage and reach a separation agreement which is just and with special focus on being sensitive to the children needs. Successful mediation will save your financial resources and will also improve dramatically the chances that the agreement will be followed without the stress and agony of repeated court appearances and continued resentments.Couples can schedule one hour session or longer time up to a full day. ABOUT SUPERVISION
AND CASE CONSULTATION
This service is for graduates of marriage and Family Therapy program or Mental Health Counseling program who need supervision as a pre-requisite for licensure in the state of Florida. It is also for Mental Health Professionals who are interested in earning certification as Eating Disorders Specialist. Group supervision for therapists seeking licensure or certification is no larger than three (3) individuals. Supervision session lasts for one and one-half hour. If you are a licensed professional and want to continue your training and deepen your knowledge and competence in the field you will benefit from participating in case consultation meetings. Group supervision can include 4-8 clinicians. Case consultation session lasts 2-4 hours depending on the group size. ABOUT PREMARITAL CLASSES
These classes consist of four (4) hour of education to be taken prior to receiving a marriage license. The course focuses on basic core issues affecting all relationships and which, if not address in a satisfactory manner, may cause future marital conflicts or unhappiness. Topics include but are not limited to: · Communication
· Attitude toward money
· Children and parenting issues
· Religion, sexual intimacy, and romance
· Maintain passion in a long lasting relationship.
Participants receive a certificate of completion which they can present to the court in-order to receive their license.ABOUT EATING DISORDERS
Eating Disorder can take different forms. It can be manifested in binge eating, restricting food intake, over eating, eating to avoid experience strong or painful emotions or a general strong disatisfaction with one's body. No matter how an eating disorder develops, it is important to get help. Ignoring your problems with eating may lead to serious medical and psychological consequences.
- Are you dissatisfied with your appearance?
- Do you compare your looks or body to others?
- Do you talk negatively about your body?
- Do you spend significant amount of time focused on you diet or weight?
- Do you exercise for hours at a time for several days a week?
- Do you restrict your food?
- Do you take diet pills, laxatives, or vomit to avoid gaining weight?
- Do you feel out of control with food?
- Do you eat when you feel sad, angry or lonely?
- Does eating or not eating affect your sense of control over your life?
- Are you a victim of abuse?
Answering YES to these questions may indicate a need for help.
Therapy for Eating Disorders is conducted in Individual and, if appropriate, family weekly sessions. You will be referred for a physical exam as well as for a nuitritional evaluation as part of assessment and treatment planning.
The Couples Place
Naomi Berger -- LMFT, LMHC, CAP, ACS, CEDS
Is your relationship in trouble?
Are you a couple preparing to marry and wish to create a true partnership that will last forever?
Are you single and tired of dating the wrong person?
Are you depressed, anxious, or just unhappy with where your life is going?
going?WE CAN HELP!
The Couples Place
Naomi Berger -- LMFT, LMHC, CAP, ACS, CEDS
Specializing in Dynamic Psychotherapy, IMAGO Relationship Counseling, and Relationship Empowerment
Services
- Are you going through a separation/divorce?
- Do you want to reach a fair agreement that you both can live with?
- Do you want to avoid the high cost of litigation?
- Do you want to make sure that your children are protected and provided for?
WE CAN HELP!
- Are you a graduate of Marriage and Family Therapy program or Mental Health graduate program and need to complete the supervision requirements for licensure in the state of Florida?
- Are you a licensed professional who wants to specialize in the field of Eating Disorders and needs to complete the supervision requirement for certification?
- Are you a psychotherapist in practice who is seeking to sharpen your skills?
WE CAN HELP!
- Are you a couple planing to get married and want to complete the Florida pre-marital education requirement?
- Do you want to identify and learn to deal with important relationship issues that might be a source of conflicts in the future?
- Were you hurt in your previous committed relationship and you want to make sure that you do not repeat the same mistake again?
- Are you interested in learning conflict resolution and positive communication skills?
WE CAN HELP!
- Is anxiety or depression paralyzing your daily life?
- Do you have difficulty asserting yourself?
- Do you avoid conflicts even if it hurts you?
- Are you shy and afraid of meeting new people?
- Did you try to make changes to improve your situation but nothing seems to work?
- Are you suffering from panic attacts and/or concerns about your physical health?
- Does your anger get you in trouble with people you love?
- Do you feel a general disatisfaction with your life, your relationships or your career?
WE CAN HELP!
Do not suffer alone.
There is help for this problem.
ABOUT HEALING FROM AN AFFAIR
We enter intimate relationship blindly. We idealize our partner and truly believe that we found that special person who will be our best friend, our unselfish lover, our support. This person will never ever hurt us but alway always put our interest first. The affair shocks us into reality. It inflicts a deep wounding on the sanctity of our relationship. Once trust is broken, can we ever get it back? How can we overcome our profound hurt and stay together?
Some of you might feel that a divorce is your only choice. But it is also possible that this choice represents an escape from 'growing up', from facing some difficult truth about your life, from yourself and from assuming the responsibility of making your relationship work.
This therapy is for couples who are deeply wounded from an affair but are courages enough to admit that they still want to stay together and confront how they each contributed to the infidelity and build new trust and intimacy.
This therapy will help you and guide you through the process of healing and forgiveness You will learn new skills of communication, recognize unproductive relational patterns of distancing and avoidance, work through the pain and the anger into a conscious relationship based on truth, safety and passion.
Couples attend weekly sessions in addition to individual sessions focused on resolving old patterns and learn new skills.
