Relationships can be messy and challenging. Let's build our skills for communication and collaboration, while also finding supports for empathy and resilience. I work with intimate relationships of many arrangements: monogamy, polyamory, open relationships, and other forms of consensual non-monogamy and relationship anarchy.
Licensed Psychoanalyst, Ed.D. (CA Medical Board License #RP 227)
My approach to therapy as a Jungian analyst is to listen deeply to discover the unique person that you are and the problems you are facing. In a safe, caring, and supportive setting we will utilize dream analysis, journaling, and other creative work to help guide you back to the wisdom within.
Relationships and Marriage are complex and bring out certain parts of ourselves that need attention, understanding, and coping. How we communicate with, understand, and hear our partners are important parts of healthy relationships as well as establishing and maintaining healthy boundaries. Together we will explore what you and your partner are having difficulties with and want more insight into in order to feel connected and understood, as well as understanding maladaptive copings and communications.
We offer research-based, integrative therapy for individuals with relationship issues and couples seeking to improve their relationships. We provide pre-marriage and marriage counseling. And also work with couples who have chosen to end a long-term relationship and wish for a conscious, amicable separation.
Dr. Liberman specializes in working with individuals and couples in order to help them understand themselves and improve their relationships. Dr. Liberman works collaboratively with you to help you develop insight about relational patterns, improve communication, and learn to build meaningful and reciprocal relationships.
Emotionally focused Couples Therapy guides us to find safe, comforting ways to be with each other. Whether a Pursuer or a Withdrawer, with my help you will find your way back to each other.
The approach for relationship and marriage counseling is to utilize Cognitive and Dialectical Behavior Therapies, psychodynamic, and psychoanalysis for the purpose of creating a more effective and positive linkage and relationship between the partners.
We offer couples therapy for those who are currently struggling with significant conflict in their relationship, or those who are wanting to deepen their connection with their partner.
Our therapists are trained in Emotion Focused Therapy and Integrative Behavioral Couples Therapy, which are the two most prominent treatment approaches for couples. For us, the relationship is the client and not any one individual. Additionally, we see issues as dynamic and it is important to understand how both individuals contribute to the dynamic. It is through this lens and approach that we do couples therapy.
Whether pre-marital or beyond, it's important to learn how each of you entered the world of relationships - starting with your family of origin. From there, we get into current obstacles arising out of those early experiences and begin to communicate in more expansive and emotionally aware ways. Much of the treatment involves trying out new methods of communication to see what works for you.