Couples Therapy

Kathleen has more than 15 years of expertise and has honed the necessary skills to help couples experience connectedness, fairness, and conflict resolution within families. Kathleen is a certified mediator and graduated from Friends University with a Master of Science in Family Therapy. Kathleen completed a year-long post-graduate program in Bowen Family Systems. This framework explores the problems with emotional impairment in self–regulation and the theory of differentiation and connectedness within a relationship.  Kathleen also uses Gottman techniques for couples therapy. 

 A Contextual framework is also helpful in therapy, which not only looks at the function of dialogue between individuals but also at the condition of their existence and narrative within their relationship. 

Contextual therapy can be grouped with other theories that also emphasize understanding the family through an intergenerational and trauma framework. Emotion Focus Therapy may also be used so that the couple can explore their patterns of connection and the cause of the maladaptive behaviors.