Couples and Marriage Therapy | Affair Repair Therapy | EMDR | Depression and Anxiety
I have been in private practice for 35 years. I am very well trained and very experienced. I work with anyone who comes into my office, no matter their problem. I have developed expertise in many areas over the years.
—Terry Real
Individual Therapy: through the relational lens.
My Therapy Program: 90-minute sessions once per week for 3-4 months.
I have studied every aspect of marriage therapy--from pre-marital therapy to co-parenting for divorced parents. This is a huge scope along a single spectrum of couples therapies and coaching. Currently, I am most interested in helping marriages stay together, using divorce-busting techniques. I also can work with only one partner and help them improve the marriage with solo efforts.
In my office, the relationship is the "patient" and each partner is a contributor to this "bank." The type of "deposits" made directly impact the well-being of the "bank." The defensive, confused, and resentful deposits hurt my "patient". Consistent acts of FIERCE INTIMACY: honesty, vulnerability, compassion, “adulting,” and connection make my "patient" healthier. Much of this work depends upon the individual changes and growth each contributor is willing to do in my office.
I work with couples in which there has been betrayal and infidelity. Affairs damage both partners. There are four stages of recovery from affairs that I use with honesty, compassionate accountability, and skill-building. I will bring you and your partner through these four stages of recovery from revelation, shock, and feeling like an earthquake has hit your marriage to honest communication and compassionate, full accountability. If you and your partner choose to stay together, you will use this work to establish a new kind of intimacy between you.
Are You Depressed?
Depression is an epidemic in our culture. No matter how you choose to treat it-- medications or with alternative treatments--talking and trauma therapy highly increase your chances for management and recovery.
The pandemic we all are living through has brought heightened levels and symptoms of depression and anxiety to many of us. Old habits and excessive behaviors, and ruminating thoughts may show up. I will teach you skills to calm down your elevated and unproductive reactions.
www.psychcentral.com/depquiz.html
EMDR is a power-therapy. It can be done in a few sessions and help you reverse the distorted aspects of unresolved trauma, anxiety, addictions, OCD, and many other personal struggles.
EMDR acts as re-wiring of the brain. This re-programming is necessary to heal and correct the way the brain has tried for years to adapt and compensate for trauma or strangulating disorders that keep you stuck. This “stuckness” causes distorted thinking, feelings, and reactive behaviors. Brief and intensive healing is possible!
I will be glad to send you more information about EMDR and how it works.
