RELATIONSHIPS + COUPLES

Each individual in a relationship has their own set of strengths and experiences. While this is part of what makes partnership so fulfilling, it can also be challenging. Relationship and Couples therapy creates space for increasing awareness of the relationship dynamics and how differences in life experiences impact the partnership and individual reactions. Insight into how these individual differences influence our interactions with our partners provides the opportunity to pause and make distinct choices about how you want to communicate with and respond to your partner. Couples arrive to therapy for a variety of reasons: some arrive in crisis and need to reestablish safety, some arrive during life transitions needing support to stay connected, and some couples arrive to the therapy space for enrichment and deeper connection.

Katie uses research-based therapeutic approaches that can help clients better understand how they show up in their most important relationships, build skills for communication and conflict management, as well as repair and enrich relationships.

Katie has received training and uses the Gottman Method for Couples Therapy in her practice. This includes an individualized in-depth assessment process establishing safety with structured skills building to help reduce negative conflict cycles and increase the ability to see, feel and really know yourself and your partner. Conflict management is improved by reducing maladaptive interactions that include criticism, defensiveness, contempt, and emotional disengagement. Through the couples therapy process, partners can build a deep and fulfilling emotional connection which can create the foundation needed to move forward in connection or navigate the process of healing old wounds.

Relationship + Couples Therapy topics may include:

Building effective communication skills
Navigating life transitions
Birth of a child
Couples therapy for parents
Exploring varied relationship models
Loss of trust or infidelity
Pre-marital therapy or partnership
Later in life relationships
Discernment or divorce counseling
Relationship concerns with adult siblings or family members

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Solstice believes in individualized treatment for clients and offering space for change that meets that particular clients’ needs. Sessions of different lengths are available for individual psychotherapy, EMDR, couples and parenting work.

Extended Sessions: Sessions that are longer than the traditional 50 minute hour. Sessions may range from 90 minutes to 2 hours. Extended sessions are planned in advance of the time of service.
Intensives: Solstice offers individualized couples intensives. This approach is a condensed form of couples therapy over the course of 2-3 days. This multiple day deep dive offers a concentrated focus on the relationships where couples can fully immerse themselves in the therapeutic process. Benefits of intensive couples therapy is that progress can be more rapid due to deeper exploration and skill building.
Workshops: Workshops are done in a group format and may be in person or virtually.
- Parent Education, Support, and Training
- Couples Enrichment and Intimacy Building

Katie has received training and uses the Gottman Method for Couples Therapy in her practice. This includes an individualized in-depth assessment process establishing safety with structured skills building to help reduce negative conflict cycles and increase the ability to see, feel and really know yourself and your partner. Conflict management is improved by reducing maladaptive interactions that include criticism, defensiveness, contempt, and emotional disengagement. Through the couples therapy process, partners can build a deep and fulfilling emotional connection which can create the foundation needed to move forward in connection or navigate the process of healing old wounds.

Solstice offers several different services that aim to support kids and their grown ups. Our family and parenting relationships are truly the most important in our growth and development. They provide the foundation for our emotion regulation, lay the framework for our sense of self, and map how we relate to others.

Self-regulation is the ability to focus thoughts, control behaviors, and manage emotions. If you want your child to develop self-regulation, you must develop your own. As adults and parents, we are the source of co-regulation for our children. Co-regulation is the process by which children learn to increase self-regulation as their brains and nervous system develop. Parenting is hard and there isn’t always support for families of children with challenging behaviors, brain-based differences, developmental differences, and trauma. Solstice is here to help.

Part of the collaborative wellness mission of Solstice is prevention, focusing on healing from the inside out and providing a secure foundation for wellness in our intimate attachment relationships is our goal. Parents are supported in identifying and developing skills to navigate challenging experiences with their children and teens through various modalities.

Parent Coaching and Psychotherapy: Helping you be the parent you want to be with more effective communication, stronger life-long relationships with your child(ren) or teen, and parenting in a way that aligns with your values.
Parent-Child/Parent-Teen Therapy: This is a treatment modality that supports the relationship between parent and child. Parents are supported in communication, repair, boundary setting, and building awareness of the relationship dynamics. You and your child (or teen) attend sessions together.
Family Therapy: Focuses on the improvement of relationships between family members. Family therapy can be helpful in the process of repair after a rupture or significant event, challenges with transitions or even sibling rivalry. Family therapy is also part of the treatment process in the recovery from substance use disorder, eating disorders, and other mental health challenges that impact our relationships.
Parent Training Workshop: Coming Soon!

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