Couples

Courage and curiosity for empowered intimate relationships

Like aging, intimate relationships are not for sissies. They require the courage to face what is ugly and scary in yourself and your partner, love fully without possessing, and risk losing that love.
- Richard C. Schwartz

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You are the one you’ve been waiting for.

What if you can utilize the challenges you’re experiencing in your relationship as helpful trailheads?

When you shift your focus to building a meaningful relationship with your internal system, you gain increased clarity and a depth of insight that empowers courageous love. The capacity for healing and growth is already within each of us.

 
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Experience Courageous Love

In couples counseling, Jill will guide each of you in building a deeper relationship with yourself to bring about greater understanding in your relationship. By embracing “u-turns” (coined by Richard Schwartz), individuals increase their capacity to make transformational changes.

  • Embark on a courageous healing journey

  • Foster a safe and intimate relationship with your partner

  • Access a safe space to communicate and explore challenges

  • Discover greater clarity, calmness, courage, and curiosity

  • Learn more about your triggers

  • Identify relationship trailheads

  • Unpack relationship beliefs

  • Access greater vulnerability

  • Gain greater insight into relational patterns

  • Discover what’s beneath the content of common conflicts

  • Explore the ways attachment impacts your relationship

  • Recognize the stories you are writing about your past, present, and future

  • Increase your compassion for fearful parts and protectors

  • Develop a relationship with all the various parts of you

  • Cultivate open-heartedness

  • Attain powerful foundational skills for co-writing a story of courageous love

 
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Jill’s Approach

When working with couples, Jill uses the Internal Family Systems (IFS) modality as the primary foundation for her counseling process. Learn more about Jill’s approach.

Jill offers the option to meet in person or remotely. Contact Jill to learn more.