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Imago Couples counseling on Oprah – for the 17th time!

The Oprah Winfrey show has featured Harville Hendrix and Imago Relationship counseling 17 times, and included Imago in the list of “Unforgettable! Oprah’s Top 20 shows”.  The Oprah site features many articles on Imago marriage counseling.

Imago is for you if......?

We are often asked "Can Imago help me?"  We hear from couples who feel they have fallen completely out of love, and ask if there is hope.  Other couples are blissfully happy in a new-found love, but wonder if there is anything they can do to ensure that their love lasts.

Many who offer Imago couples therapy started their work with Imago because they themselves used it first to restore the connection in their own relationships, and they understand what it is like to begin to lose sight of hope that their love can be saved.  They found out for themselves that when nothing else seems to work, Imago marriage counseling provides an answer.

"The Relationship" is a regular blog providing information about Imago couples counseling.

Imago couples therapy is different because..?

In the movies you often see Marriage counseling provided by an "expert" who hears each partner, decides what they should each do, and offers their advice.  

The trouble is that most of us have developed very good defenses against accepting advice, especially if it looks like maybe we are in the wrong, and are being told to do things right.  That's why those movie scenes are often comic, and when we watch part of the humor is recognizing that it won't work.

Imago couples therapy takes a radically different approach.  We don't work to "fix" you, we invite you to join with us in working on the relationship as a whole.  In Imago, nobody is right or wrong.  The challenge is to learn how to talk together about things which really matter, in a way that feels safe, supportive and positive.

That puts you in the driving seat!  You and your partner learn to work on the relationship yourselves, and you become the experts on your own relationship by learning to find out what is really going on for your partner, and understanding how things in the present have a deep emotional connection to their past.

Articles on Imago and marriage counseling

Why is My Partner So Annoying at Times?

What's it like to attend an Imago weekend couples workshop

Introduction to Imago by Harville Hendrix

Why free relationship help?

We understand how hard it can be to make a decision to attend couples counseling or a couples workshop.  For a start, there's two of you who need to make the decision, so while one of you may be all excited about the possibilities, the other partner might be terrified!

That's why we have provided a range of free relationship help.  Maybe you will find all you need there to restore the love in your relationship, or to build a stronger relationship for the future.  Or maybe it will provide just enough insight into what Imago marriage counseling involves for you to make a decision together to attend workshops or therapy.

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Workshops and Therapy - The Fast Track to Bliss

Couples Therapy on its own is great. 

So is a couples weekend workshop. 

But together they provide the fast-track to bliss. 

The workshop enables you to quickly understand how your relationship works, and provides you with the tools you need to resolve relationship conflict.  Imago couples counseling provides essential follow-up, and can guide you to explore the deepest issues - the ones where you can gain the most as a couple.

"Take your relationship

to a place you have

only dreamed of"

Couples Workshop attendee

Based on the best-seller “Getting The Love You Want” by Harville Hendrix, PhD

Published in 1988, this book changed the face of couples therapy, and has appeared in the NY Times best-seller list 11 times.  It has inspired many subsequent works and changed the face of marriage counseling for ever.

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Free Relationship Help

Even in a relationship that feels great, there are times when partner can feel alone, unsupported, and unloved.  What is going on?

When the early excitement of falling in love fades, differences which once felt trivial become the source of disagreement and frustration.

Imago Relationship therapy helps you understand why the differences which lead to frustrations are actually a natural part of what originally attracted you to each other.  We will help you make practical use of insights from brain studies and major psychological research.  You will be able to look at the story of your relationship in a fresh way, and quickly feel hope and release from pain.

Follow this link to our directory of Imago Couples Counselors with their own webpage on our site.

Imago Conference 2010

Featuring John and Julie Gottman.

Atlanta, Georgia.  October 28th-30th

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Did you choose couples therapy or marriage counseling as a career so that you could help others out of their emotional pain?

What if we could show you a way to help people even more effectively, enabling you to consistently experience the delight of seeing people leave your office happier, and stronger?

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• It can be so exciting when a couple who seems caught up in their pain, suddenly breaks through to a new realization which brings happiness and love.  This is the true heart of Imago couples counseling where it's the couple who take ownership for their own work, and are therefore much more open to those "Ah ha" moments that create results.

Image: The Imago faculty with Harville Hendrix

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• Imago provides a framework for clinical practice.

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• You can use Imago to more effectively apply all your existing skills and experience.  Imago couples counseling usually has the couples facing each other, and speaking directly to their partner, using structured dialogue processes which you guide them through.  This supports the skillful and attuned use of prompts which guide the couple to safely explore issues like attachment wounding together.
  

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• Through Imago, couples take ownership for their work.
  

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• Do you ever find yourself with couples who get stuck in the  marriage counseling process?  Maybe you wish they could grasp what is so clear to you, and overcome their resistance?  Imago invites clients to understand the couples  therapy process so they can feel more motivated to explore their own barriers to growth.  When your couples attend Imago couples weekend workshops, they often return  to couples counseling with so much insight and enthusiasm that the next few sessions are full of excitement and discovery.

Becoming a Certified Imago Couples Therapist

We provide training in Imago Couples Therapy in many locations worldwide.  The training involves both theory and plenty of hands-on practice. 

We offer 2-day introductory course, and a Certification track which involves 12 days of small-group learning, in addition to consultation as you put these skills into practice. 

Follow this link to learn more about Imago training for therapists

After the program, therapists usually find they are much more successful at building a marriage counseling practice, gaining a reputation amongst other therapists for delivering results, and attracting couples referrals.