Imago Therapists in Cincinnati, OH
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Darcy Jack
Counselor, MA, LPCC
Verified
Verified
As a certified
Imago
relationship therapist, Darcy has extensive training beyond her counseling license to understand what makes intimate relationships so challenging and why that's actually good news.
In a supportive atmosphere, Darcy assists clients through challenges to create the relationships they long for. Learning to see troubling differences as opportunities to grow, clients develop skills that improve all relationships, with themselves, partners/spouses, family of origin, children, friends and colleagues. People of all races, ethnicities, ages, spiritual perspectives, sexual and gender expression are warmly welcomed.
Matthew 'Harv' Stricklin Jr
Counselor, MDiv, MSEd, LPCC
Verified
Verified
I am a Certified Advanced
Imago
Relationship Therapist, a pastoral counselor, and an addictions counselor who is independently licensed as a Professional Clinical Counselor.
Relationships are the clients I am most passionate about working with. I thrive on facilitating healing and growth in the sacred space between two people, that special connection that can be so energizing and vital. I have discovered the joy of seeing not only relationships heal and grow, but also partners in relationships. Your relationship offers great potential for you and your partner. You were wounded in relationships earlier in life; we all were. Here is the good news: you can heal in your current relationship and so can your partner. The two of you can do the hard work; I can help!
Rosalind R Smith
Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor, MA, LPCC-S
Verified
2 Endorsed
Verified
2 Endorsed
My approach is shaped by my ministry work, experience in treating anxiety, depression, and trauma, along with the use of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Emotional Freedom Techniques, Mindfulness Meditation, Brainspotting, and
Imago
Relationship Therapy.
Feeling overwhelmed? There is hope! My passion is to help couples and individuals heal from emotional pain and trauma. You will receive a personalized counseling experience tailored to help support you as you work towards identifying and removing barriers that are negatively impacting the quality of your life and relationships.
Sarah Poppell - Seven Hills Therapy
Licensed Professional Counselor, MA, LPC
Verified
Verified
When working with couples, I use
Imago
Therapy to teach healthy communication skills.
Hello! I am passionate about helping clients define their goals then take steps needed to achieve success. I support clients in and outside of sessions providing an open line of communication for all clients on my caseload. I believe we are all deserving of peace, love and happiness and am passionate about clients achieving such. I work with individuals to help them maintain healthy and fulfilling lives. I work with couples to strengthen communication, maintain healthy conflict resolution and ultimately to regain closeness. I view my role as your co-pilot. I would be honored to travel beside you on your journey through life.
John M. Tidd
Psychologist, PsyD
Verified
Verified
Do you feel connected and passionate within yourself? With your partner? My professional focus is in helping individuals and couples develop deeply connected, intimate and vibrant relationships with their partner and within themselves. I have found that a committed couple can often work through hurt, misunderstanding, and loneliness to find a relationship that feels safe, loving, and deeply engaged. I work in an open, encouraging, and emotionally attuned style that respects each partner's experience, which can then help to dissolve painful, disconnecting cycles and develop new enlivening, loving, and connected ways of relating.
Thomas B Wilkinson
Counselor, LPCC-S, LICDC-C, MA
Verified
Verified
Thinking and feeling in ways that allow you to engage your daily life, others, and your personal goals with energy, creativity, and effectiveness is the thrust of my approach and practice. Identifying patterns that restrict cognitive and behavioral functioning, preventing understanding and integration of personal and interpersonal dynamics is a key focus. Increasing self awareness and understanding through enhancing mindfulness, expanding thinking about self and others, and developing behavior patterns that mobilize personal strengths, assets, and motivation is the goal of the work.
Christine H Conlan
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LISWS
Verified
4 Endorsed
Verified
4 Endorsed
Difficulties in our lives can interfere with our happiness, perhaps leaving us feeling stuck, anxious, depressed or angry. We want our lives to be better. Fortunately, the human spirit is resilient. This often is when we can heal, reconnect, and move forward in our life. My practice is built on the belief in our power to move from pain, change, to growth and joy. I have seen this in my life and my clients. I find success and purpose in this work. If you want to reach a better place, I have a gift for helping people achieve this, and would like to help you.
Amy (Amie) Berger
Licensed Professional Counselor, MA, LPC, LCDCIII
Verified
Verified
Not every therapist is for a client and not every client for a therapist. The Client-Clinician relationship is of greatest importance. I work with a variety of populations, presenting issues, and within different realms of interventions and theories. It is not a one shoe fits all. I meet the client where they are and work accordingly. Now that is not to say I do not nudge gently with a soft challenge. If I didn't I would not be doing my work, nor the service you (and everyone) deserves! I utilize animals within therapy work in sessions.
Alyssa Curry
Licensed Professional Counselor, MA, LPC
Verified
1 Endorsed
Verified
1 Endorsed
Hi! My name is Alyssa. I'm a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with a Master's in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from Xavier University as well as an Award-winning and Best Selling Author/Ghostwriter and book cover designer. As an author, I give others a powerful voice to reflect and tell their life story. As a mental health counselor, I view counseling as an opportunity to empower others to find the strength to overcome challenges. I aspire to help others find a stronger voice to narrate their story, navigate through challenges, live with honesty, and without fear of judgment.
Danita Brewer
Licensed Professional Counselor, LPC
Verified
Verified
Are you finding difficulty in your relationships? Are you finding it hard to connect to your spouse, significant other, kids, others? Do you find yourself angry, frustrated, afraid or sad. I can help. You and I can explore to understand what’s creating the difficulties and then identify strategies to help you live a more fulfilling and rewarding life.
Counseling That Works
Counselor, MA, LPCC-S
Verified
Verified
I am currently accepting patients who need counseling for couples support, trauma support, and are wanting either short term or on-going support for depression and anxiety. My background as a counselor is in Lifespan development, which includes extensive experience working with children, adolescents and adults. For the past 25 years, I have been assessing, diagnosing and helping people live better lives by providing tools to cultivate the lives they want to create. I provide a warm, comfortable space for my clients to express their challenges and explore options that they are willing to try to create change.
Sharee N Allen
Marriage & Family Therapist, LMFT
Verified
Verified
Book today at www.groundswellpsychotherapy.org and take back your well-being! I have seven years of experience in Marriage and Family Therapy and Art Therapy with children, adolescents, families, couples and adults. I also treat individuals who experience addiction, trauma, anxiety and depression, as well as those going through life transitions such as adjustment to illness, changes in schooling, divorce and grief.
Carla Seemann
Counselor, LPCC-S, LICDC-s
Verified
Verified
Growth is part of a healthy and fulfilling life. I believe that everyone has the capacity for growth, change, and genuine connections. We all have the ability to develop meaningful connections with the important people in our lives, as well as ourselves. But sometimes, fear and anxiety can get in the way of us living our lives to their fullest and making the deepest connections with the important people in our lives.
Christy Haas
Counselor, MA, LPCC, CST
Verified
1 Endorsed
Verified
1 Endorsed
As a sex therapist I often have clients tell me that being intimate with their partner has become another one of the responsibilities to check off the "To-Do" list; describing sex as a chore, or even a burden. Having sexual issues can have devastating effects on individuals and couples. There are many reasons why sex becomes an issue in relationships: sexual shame from their upbringing, pain during sex, trying to understand their sexuality and preferences or processing past trauma. Working with a professional in a safe & professional space to communicate their feelings & thoughts can have a huge impact.
Candice N. Crowley
Licensed Professional Counselor, LPC
Verified
Verified
Candicely is a therapy space created for those ready to hear hard truths about themselves, engage in uncomfortable conversations, and come to terms with difficult realities. Candicely helps individuals break out of the boxes that limit their ability to reach their full potential and live a fulfilled life. Candicely focuses on the present, understands the past, but rejects the notion that the past has to control or define the future. Candicely offers individual counseling, life coaching, support services for blended families and co-parenting, couples counseling, support for life transitions, student services, & Christian counseling.
Tanya Younce
Counselor, MEd, LPCC
Verified
Verified
We are all wired to find equilibrium – the state of rest and balance with our body, mind, and spirit. But sometimes outside influences like relationships, work, money, illnesses, politics, and world issues keep that from happening. We take a few steps forward, only to get pushed back much further. If you find yourself struggling to cope and hold things together in the midst of stress, loss, and/or a radical change, Life is likely calling for you to grow. Engaging in therapy is like going on a journey with a trusted guide who sees, hears, teaches, and supports you wholeheartedly.
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Iten Elyassaki
Counselor, MA, LPCC
Verified
Verified
I am a compassionate Licensed Professional Counselor experienced in serving many clients with diverse needs. I believe each individual is unique and I want to welcome you to a world of new possibilities. I work with children, adolescents, and adults needing support with navigating life stage transitions, stress management, relationship challenges, self-esteem, behavioral issues, trauma, marital discord, infidelity, parenting difficulties, grief, and addictions. Likewise, I work with those struggling with anxiety, depression and a variety of mood, personality & mental health disorders.
Xavier Heditsian
MA, LPCC-S
Verified
Verified
When I meet with clients for the first time I often ask them the question "How would you know counseling was working for you?" Commonly, the client will begin to discuss a different experience they would like to have in their life. This may be in a relationship, career stressors, a life transition, loss/grief or around overwhelming emotions like anxiety, depression, loneliness, guilt, or fear. Answering this question helps us to gain clarity about what you want to experience in your life and begin the process of bringing it to fruition. My mission is to best serve your needs and help you to move toward your vision for the future.
Waybridge Counseling
Counselor, PCC-S
Verified
1 Endorsed
Verified
1 Endorsed
Waybridge Counseling is a group practice of specialists who provide treatment for a variety of concerns. Our specialists work in teams and this is a critical element of our success. Each team meets regularly for ongoing training and consultation in the team's specialty. We believe that this significantly increases the quality of counseling we offer.
Mindfully - Fairfield
Counselor, LPC, LPCC, LISW
2 Endorsed
2 Endorsed
At Mindfully, we are dedicated to helping our clients heal, grow, and thrive. We focus on matching clients with providers who specialize in the challenges they are facing. By providing the best fit from the start, we help our clients meet their goals with greater success and our providers find deeper fulfillment in their work.
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Imago Therapists
How does Imago therapy work?
Imago relationship therapy is a form of couples counseling meant to help partners address conflict, communication problems, and related issues. Imago sessions typically involve couples sitting facing each other and participating in guided conversations. Therapy will also involve exercises such as re-imagining one’s partner as a wounded child; re-romanticizing a relationship through appreciation, surprises, and even gift-giving and restructuring frustrations by transforming complaints into requests. The ultimate goal is to re-envision the relationship as a source of safety and happiness.
What is the Imago method?
A core technique of Imago therapy is the Imago dialogue, in which partners learn to avoid hurtful statements and establish ways to interact based on each having equal space and power. In the dialogue, partners take turns as the “sender,” who shares their thoughts, and the “receiver.” The receiver is asked to “mirror,” or paraphrase, what their partner has said, without response or rebuttal, and then validate their statements, acknowledging understanding even if they do not personally agree with it. Finally, the receiver displays empathy by stating what they imagine the other is feeling, and showing appreciation for it.
How long does Imago therapy take?
As with most forms of talk therapy, there is no set duration or end point for Imago therapy. After becoming comfortable with a therapist and the core techniques of Imago coaching, some couples quickly make progress, but most should expect sessions to extend for months, encompassing at least 12 to 20 sessions, along with extensive “homework” from their therapist.
Does Imago therapy work?
There is limited empirical evidence to support the benefits of Imago therapy, but some smaller studies suggest that it does help couples, at least in the short-term. A 2017 study found that marital satisfaction increased significantly after couples completed 12 sessions of Imago therapy, and remained higher for some time after that, but did not always result in “complete recovery.” Other studies found greater empathy and fewer feelings of relationship burnout in couples after therapy. Some research suggests that Imago therapy can aid individuals as well as couples; people with ADHD in particular may benefit from the development of communication, self-control, and listening skills that form the basis of the technique.