Couples Therapy
Deciding upon embarking on couples counseling is a courageous step. Many couples will go through years of unhappiness or dissatisfaction before seeing a therapist and it is often at the point within their relationship that they can no longer ignore the need for some third party help.
Couples counseling can be absolutely phenomenal, shifting your relationship from one of being at odds with each other to being allies.
Learning positive communication skills in order to step off the hamster wheel of blaming and defending is essential. Learning a certain level of acceptance of your partner and halting the phenomenon of "trying to change the other person" will create a much greater level of peace within the relationship. Learning how to re-connect on a deeper level of truth can renew the passion and bring new vitality to your relationship.
I have a strong love of working with couples and assisting in creating healthy, passionate, and fulfilling relationships. I have assisted couples in creating more intimacy, emotional closeness, skillful and effective communication, deeper understanding, self and other compassion, coming from a "we" place, remembering the beauty of why you came together, and creating a vision for your forward movement as a couple. I have also worked with many couples with affair recovery.
I welcome and work with couples of all sexual and/or gender/non-binary orientation.
Tracy Wikander, LMFT, Therapist
