APPROACHES TO TREATMENT

As a Gottman trained marriage counselor and individual psychotherapist, in private practice for over 20+ years, I have had experience working with many different types of difficulties and marital issues. I will help you transform your relationships (with yourself and others)! Over time, I've noticed that many of my couples were suffering with the same types of disarray. I want to help you overcome this negativity and live a more purposeful, self-aware, and intentional lifestyle. Therefore, I've created a unique transformational program with an individualized approach and system that will help hold you accountable for the agreements that are made during and between sessions. I strive to share life-changing tools for healthy relationships.

CONNECT NOW! A Practical Activity Guide For Couples is a day-to-day, simple, and solution-focused “check-in” activity book that I offer to all of my clients during our initial intake consultation. In order to create a more desirable lifestyle, we must get really clear with ourselves and create specific steps to achieve our goals. I typically only accept 10 new clients or couples per week because of my solution focused coaching and participation between sessions. 

As your therapist, I want to give you as much information or psycho-education as possible to help you develop skills that may enhance your partnerships and life, even from the very first activity. Therefore, I have clients and couples who only need a few sessions to gain more focus and clarity to establish an agile plan of action.   

The sooner issues are addressed, the easier they are to work out. Sometimes, marriage counseling, couples therapy, or individual psychotherapy is all that is needed, providing a space for the couple or client to think and to explore their situation. Marriage, family, and individual counseling can offer the opportunity to understand the deeper, more subconscious blockages and patterns in a relationship. The frustration of not feeling heard and understood can result in a detrimental outcome and is frequently linked to our earliest and most powerful emotional experiences.

Good news, these are learned behaviors. We can reprocess, become more self aware, set clear intentions, goals, and boundaries to overcome challenges. Typically, several agreements, resources, and tools are facilitated and made readily accessible through this approach to effectively help handle even the most complex cases.

Through mutual understanding, a couple or family often finds new strategies for enjoying their relationships. 

I look forward to helping you. If I can't help, I bet that I will find someone who can...  Text me for some guidance with the process for finding a good fit for your specific circumstances:

813-240-3237

Respectfully,

Elizabeth Mahaney

WE'LL CONNECT AND STRENGTHEN YOUR LIFE & RELATIONSHIPS IN 3 WAYS

Step 1 (To Do): Attune to Awarenesses

Awarenesses may start with researched assessments based on thousands of individuals or couples that will recognize cycles of conflict so issues can be stopped and transformed into moments for self-compassion, intimacy and connection. Receive a detailed analysis of your relationship style so you can turn your insecurity into opportunities for a deeper romantic bond. Miscommunication and disconnect happens when the lack of self-awareness could be part of the problem and partners don’t understand each other. My first task is to get you on the same page with yourself and loved ones. Let’s create a game plan and brainstorm agreements about how to start the process. This step can feel overwhelming but my goal is to help you focus and narrow down specific goals. We will approach the problems collaboratively with questions like: “How can life feel better?”, “How can each of you start positive changes intrinsically?”, “You are a subjective human and you can only feel and control you”. Therefore, all change happens intrinsically.

Step 2 (Doing): Attach to Agreements

Learn how to intentionally ask for what you feel and need in a way that gives your partner a way to express love. Create a culture of love and respect that builds trust and sexual passion. We will deal with perpetual problems, heal old wounds, and rekindle the spark of companionship together. Playfully explore ways to create a fulfilling and passionate relationship. Let’s create more intimacy that brought you together in the first place, create new agreements that make life more enjoyable, and meet each other’s needs. I’ll offer you specific techniques, resources, interventions, tools, or activities that may work for you by brainstorming, collaborating, and developing the treatment plan together. I will also explain how to connect through communication by making specific actionable, immediately do-able, positive requests. Learn how to love your partner without losing yourself.

Step 3 (Done): Accountability for Lasting Change

I give you all the tools you need to understand what changes need to be made, avoid relapse and continue to build a meaningful relationship that gets better with time. I’ll also help hold you accountable for creating, trouble shooting, and maintaining sustainable intentional responses to “This Thing Called Life” and… sustain a connection throughout changes along the way.