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How to reduce reacting and rebuild relationships

ACCESS CALM

Strengthen your relationship and overcome communication barriers with our specialized 6-session course designed for couples experiencing conflict.

Whether you're seeking gradual progress or an intensive, focused approach over 7-14 days, our tailored sessions will help you reconnect, understand each other more deeply, and have an effective impact on ongoing issues.

Identify Triggers; Yellow Flag Warnings that I am Heating Up; Requesting Breaks in a Disagreement; and Develop Communication Skills around Facts, Thoughts, Feelings and Wants and Needs

Identify Protest Behavior and Develop Alternatives

Exploring what’s behind Impatience and De-Escalating Reactivity around another person’s rhythm/pace

Identify the Thoughts and Feelings that Come with Judgments (Respect/Disrespect, Worthiness, Trust, etc.)

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Exploring what’s behind the urge to be “Right” and finding more effective avenues of conflict resolution

Exploring what’s a Priority disagreement and what is not, as a means for transforming your communication with your partner in order for both of you to get more of what you want in the relationship.

Interested in a more compressed series of private sessions with your partner? 

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Customized Intensive are available—just ask and we will work with you to tailor a series of sessions.

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New classes come together based on interest and availability, so let us know what you prefer—the weekly course or a more customized intensive series of sessions in a briefer time-span—and what your weekly availability is like.

Paul Gutrecht, LMFT

Counseling can bring relief.  In Paul Gutrecht’s work as a therapist, his focus is on the specifics of what you bring in:  maybe you’re feeling anxious or stuck, hurting from a relationship or a dealing with a big life event.  Whatever the situation, Paul works with you to identify core issues, identify next steps and ultimately provide relief.  

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