Modalities

Shift in Perspective provides transformational, depth couples psychotherapy with presence and attunement. Each client’s unique presentation of elements, dynamics, issues and priorities is assessed, framed holistically, and treated with diversely tailored approaches for optimal benefits.

On-line or in person sessions available, 60 or 90 minutes, extended as arranged. Our couples psychotherapy offers the following:

Somatic Approach to Trauma Reprocessing & Emotional Regulation

  • Conscious embodiment attention is presenced and prioritized for optimal resourcing
  • Sensate, mood and cognitive regulation practices are centered as keys to transformation 
  • Assessment, education and collaboration on somatic practices, health, wellness, sleep, nutrition, exercise, supplements and practical self-care habits are offered
  • Movement awareness, therapeutic bodywork, and expressive arts practices are employed as tools for grounding, healing and self-expression

Soul-Work

  • Attunement to your essential, authentic Self
  • Discovering your soul medicine: wisdom, path, vocation, opportunities for growth
  • Developmental character work
  • Soul Narrative rewriting: authoring, revising and transforming foundational beliefs
  • Intuition, resonance and relatedness
  • Cultivating the essential self through inquiry, transparency and unpacking false selves
  • Passionate presence, creativity and access to one’s true calling

Intimacy, Sexuality & Relationship Work

  • Working on attachment patterning to create more fundamental security attunement
  • Building conflict resolution structures and non-defensive communication skills
  • Forging collaborative agreements and practices for security, stability and growth
  • Deepening shared meanings, rituals of connection and secure attachment
  • Breaking through intimacy blockages by forging transparent listening and attunement
  • Negotiating togetherness/connectedness and autonomy/ separateness
  • Co-parenting skills dialogue and Parent-child guidance
  • Premarital assessment, coaching and compatibility assessment
  • Marriage de-construction and collaborative divorce, when that is what is indicated
  • Multi-generational family sessions
  • Forgiveness

Additional Areas of Expertise

  • Substance abuse assessment and treatment
  • Codependency and adult-child of alcoholism/substance dependency issues
  • Emotional and Social Intelligence Development
  • Menswork
  • Narrative therapy
  • Neurodivergence / ADHD assessment and treatment 
  • Supporting mood regulation and executive function strategies
  • Assertiveness, boundary work, and communication strategies
  • Social anxiety, shyness, isolation, loneliness
  • Live-Work balance
  • Anger management
  • Pain management
  • Conflict resolution