Imago Relationship Therapy uses the idea that people experience specific emotional pathways in early childhood with parents or caregivers. When they marry or enter a long-term commitment with another individual, it reactivates these pathways. Because each person uses their past experiences to relate to others, partners can experience conflict if these emotional pathways aren’t explored or understood.
People’s images of what connecting to another person looks like follow them from early childhood to adulthood. If they don’t take the time to understand how these may affect them negatively, they can continue acting in the same unhealthy ways they learned to get love as children.
Imago Relationship Therapy proposes that, if handled properly, conflict can lead partners directly to a more connected, loving relationship.
In this type of couples therapy, your counselor would engage you both in the process of being present with one another to produce safety. Then, you and your partner must understand your emotional pathways from childhood and, knowing these, must recommit to your relationship. Instead of turning away from your partner during painful emotional experiences, your counselor encourages you to turn toward one another. Then, your therapist encourages you to engage with positive feelings about each other to maintain this connection.
IRT’s goals are to be safe within the relationship, communicate needs, and empathize with one another. When combined, this leads partners to grow together through conflict.
Therapists Who Specialize in Using Imago Relationship Therapy
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I focus on relationship healing and connection. I am an Advanced Imago Clinician and Certified Imago Therapist with over 25 years experience counseling couples, individuals and families experiencing challenges ranging from marital conflict, sexual and emotional intimacy, chronic and terminal illness and special needs parenting stress. I offer home visits to couples with demanding work and...
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Rae Comeau, LPC-Intern, is a Professional School Counselor with over 4 years experience working with children and adults. She has been trained in various methods of therapy focusing on creating connection and addressing attachment trauma. She is currently in training to become certified as a Certified Imago Therapist, working with individuals and couples to help them reclaim their joy and...
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I offer a safe setting to gain an understanding and solutions, related to the ,issues, and goals in one's life.I help my patients in understanding how roles that are in current relationships, can be related to roles in one's family of origin. I offer a contextual approach combining Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, Cognitive Behavioral, and various other approaches developed in 39 years of experienc...
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