Our Services
* Imago Relationship Therapy
* Relationship Empowerment Coaching
* Intensive Short Term Dynamic Psychotherapy (ISTDP)
* Premarital Classes
* Healing The Relationship After an Affair
* Eating Disorders
* EMDR Treatment to Heal Trauma and PTSD
* DBT Dialectical Behavioral Therapy
* Supervision and Case Consultation
* About Skype Consultation
IMAGO
Relationship Therapy
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. For more information about IMAGO Relationship Therapy, please see our information page. (HERE)
Relationship Empowerment Coaching
This modality is based on principals developed by Terry Real in his Relational Recovery work. This is a dynamic and highly effective modality that produces quick results. Couples learn new skills with the focus on "joining through the truth."
Couples learn to identify the losing relating patterns that dominate their interactions. They 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.
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 which keep them stuck. This therapy modality identifies the self sabotaging 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 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.
For more information about treating Depression and Anxiety, please visit our Resources page for helpful links to answer your questions.
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.
Healing the Relationship After 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 always 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 your contribution to 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. You will be helped to
work through the pain and the anger and move into a conscious relationship based on truth, safety and deep[ connection.
Couples attend weekly sessions in addition to individual sessions focused on resolving old patterns and learn new skills.
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.
EMDR Treatment to Heal Trauma and PTSD
Emotional difficulties are often the result of the way information is stored in the brain. Healing begins when we unlock this information, namely bring it to consciousness.
EMDR is proven a most effective therapy for overcoming anxieties, stress, trauma, loss of relationship, grief, and variety of other self sabotaging behaviors. It is ideal for those who are unable to overcome and heal from past traumatic life experiences. It can help individuals get back control over their lives and emotions by helping to rapidly process deeply rooted memories. It allows individuals to see solutions within themselves that they never recognized before.
- Do you feel stuck unable to change or heal despite efforts and therapy?
- Are you experiencing panics, obsessions, jealousy, grief or inability to move forward in your life?
- Are you a victim of abuse or trauma?
- Are you 'controled' by irrational fears?
DBT Dialectic Behavioral Therapy
This therapy modality is proven to help individuals who feel overwhelmed and have difficulty managing their emotions. This difficulty is often experienced by individuals who grew up in a stressful environment and who for biological and environmental reasons had difficulty learning how to sooth and manage their intense feelings. This difficulty results in experience of heighten anxiety, depression, and/or mood swings. Consequently, these individuals tend to respond to life stressors with intense emotional reactivity often coping with their feelings by being overwhelmed, having urgent need to act out their emotions, possibly in a fashion that might be dangerous to themselves or others, and a great difficulty delaying getting immediate resolution to their emotional stress.
With the help of DBT you will learn how to cope with your intense feelings, reduce your anxiety and reactivity, increase your self-respect, experience greater emotional safety in relationship to others and learn how to cope with PSTD.
- Are you overwhelmed by your feelings?
- Do you engage in emotional “drama” in an effort to be heard and understood?
- Do you make impulsive decisions?
- Do you suffer from regrets and shame?
- Is anxiety or depression controlling your life, interfering with your functioning?
- Are you repeating the same mistakes in your relationship?
- Do you feel an urgent need to be in connections, scared to be alone?
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 Skype Consultation
You now can consult with Naomi via Skype. If your work
responsibilities involve extensive travel that makes attending regular
counseling sessions difficult or your geographic location makes it
impossible for you to attend sessions in the office, do not let that
hinder you from addressing your personal or relational difficulties
and getting the help you need. You now can contact Naomi through
Skype, a FREE internet service which allows you to have the
therapeutic experience as if we were in the same room together. It is
easy to use. All you need is a computer with a camera and an internet
connection to start your confidential consultation. Call us and set
up an appointment.
Call: 561.988.0375 or E-mail: Naomiberger@thecouplesplace.net