Our initial time together will be to identify your goals for our work and to understand the painful patterns that repeat and interrupt your communication and connection. You will learn about your nervous system, how to notice dysregulation in yourself and your loved ones, and how to rebalance. We will aim to gain familiarity with this regulated space, so that you can practice returning to it and communicating from it. This exercise alone can transform and deepen communication, since it is within regulation that we can listen and respond without defensiveness. I utilize Intimacy From the Inside Out (IFIO) and my experience as a trauma therapist in our sessions. ART (tab) can be combined into our work together. Meetings can be done individually to target specific past areas that create disruption within your relationship. Alternatively, you may choose to do this work collectively while being witnessed by your partner. This relational work takes willingness from both parties, but from that willingness so much can grow and shift. Our work has the potential to become something that, with practice, you can each carry with you.