BENEFITS

Rod Kochtitzky specializes in Imago Relationship Therapy because it works. Couples who attend workshops or participate in private counseling learn relationship-building skills that improve their central relationship - their marriage - and transfer into all areas of life, including work and career, family, friendships and community involvement. Couples strengthen their relationship by making a commitment to:

• The partner - The "real" person with whom they have a love relationship.
• The relationship - The commitment two individuals make to function together as a couple in a relationship of healing and growth.
• The process - The tools couples can use to increase the level of safety in the relationship, which leads to true intimacy.

By using this process, couples learn to:

• Understand why they and their partners initiate relationships.
• Understand how they and their partners function in relationships.
• Recognize the unconscious forces that attracted them to the relationship.
• See their partners with greater compassion.
• Identify the true sources of conflict in the relationship.
• Break through the destructive cycle of relating so they can communicate constructively.
• Focus their energy on maintaining passion and stability rather than on arguing.
• Increase the sense of safety within the relationship.
• Regain passion, fun, companionship, aliveness and hope for a shared future.
• Manage intense negative emotions, such as anger, rage, jealousy and mistrust.
• Recognize negative emotions and conflict as pathways to intimacy, closeness, healing and growth.

An Effective Approach to Improving Relationships

A pastoral counselor and psychotherapist with more than 30 years of experience, Rod Kochtitzky (Kuh tit skee) specializes in counseling couples regarding marriage and relationship issues. Rod is considered by many to be a top rated marriage counselor.

Rod's approach is designed to help couples of all faiths and of those of no religious belief build lasting, mutually satisfying and rewarding relationships that foster personal and spiritual growth. Certified as an advanced clinician in Imago Therapy, Rod specializes in educating and counseling couples using the approach developed by Harville Hendrix, Ph.D., an internationally known Pastoral Counselor and author of the best-selling Getting the Love You Want: A Guide for Couples and Keeping the Love You Find: A Guide for Singles.

The Imago approach enables couples to learn the basic principles of building a lasting relationship. Couples learn to:

• Understand why their personal expectations from love relationships are often not met.
• Develop the level of safety and intimacy that both partners need to support a solid, long-term commitment to the relationship.
• Perceive their partner as a distinct individual rather than an extension or reflection of themselves.

The goal is to enable couples to establish reality-based love relationships that serve as a solid foundation for personal change and growth - and to discover (or re-discover!) the joy and spiritual potential of being together.

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