Couples Therapy Clients

“You have made such a difference for us, and how we approach each other – how we have created space and allowance for understanding when we struggle.

Ours is a great love, and I was fearful we were fighting a losing battle when we first called you.

You asked us to look at each other, to hold each other’s grief, and told us to really listen. You were there with us.

You work is a science and an art. We appreciate the knowledge + experience you brought to our sessions.

Know that you’ve made a difference and we are very grateful – as are our family.”

(underlined emphasis from the author of this testimonial)

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“My wife and I came to Joseph broken and falling apart. I learned that most of my strategy when in conflict with my wife was to try and win the battle. He helped both of us see that strategy was not working for either of us. But he really helped me slow down my immediate reactions. He taught me how to talk to my wife from the deeper emotion that I was feeling in the moment instead of from the anger cycle that I (we) learned from our childhood and life experiences….We now practice this way of being more emotionally honest in our relationship. Doing so has made our connection deeper and more meaningful. This new way of relating is even working between me and my step-son. It was hard work at first, but it is really paying off.”

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“Without Joseph, I have no doubt that our marriage would not have lasted. Joseph is alternately warm, compassionate, tough, gently sarcastic, supportive and above all immensely wise and kind. Joseph quickly gets it – he got me right away, and he got my wife. Very skillfully he peeled back the layers of painful childhood experiences that were driving my adult behavior without me knowing it. Do not go to Joseph if all you want is comfort. He will give you that but not stop there. Go to Joseph if you want to really get to the root of the problems you are experiencing, and if you really want to do something about it.”

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“The secret, our secret, to finding our love again was Joseph gently holding me back, teaching me to open and be vulnerable with my fears and my pain so that [my husband] could respond with tenderness rather than having to protect himself from my needful intensity. I pulled Joseph’s name from a list, not knowing why but only that he ‘felt’ right. He could not have been more right.”