Services
Reviving the Lost Art of Cherishing
Human beings are incredibly and intricately wired for social connection, and in modern times, the majority of people simply do not receive enough deep, thoughtful, nuanced, tender care. This is true whether you are in a relationship or going solo. We are aching to be held and received in reverence and presence, but the… Read more »
Relationship Rocket Science: Group for Couples
Progressing your Relational Skills and Interpersonal Maturity Regularly experiencing relationship joy is an integral part of “the good life” we all dream of. But it takes an important set of skills which are not taught in our regular education. Would you like to speak so that you are heard? Learn attunement and empathy? Or stop… Read more »
Your Relationship Rewired: An Experiential Group for Couples
Yes, Quantum Change Is Possible Why? Because you and your partner are neuroplastic! People lose relational neural networks in childhood due to neglect, under stimulation, or environments which were experienced as dangerous. Development missed in earlier stages of life can be earned in adulthood through engaging in deliberate new actions, sensations, and emotions. … Read more »
Intensives
The bulk of the intensive will involve both parties together, but you may meet with me individually from time to time. Homework is given between the sessions to keep your progress in play and allow you to practise. Remember, the brain grows through repetition! Insight alone cannot change behaviour. Jump to sections: What we will… Read more »
Midlife Magnificence
Do you sense an unraveling of old roles, identities, friendships as you traverse the middle years? Is it bewildering to find that activities that were once deeply satisfying have paled? Are you drawn to new horizons that mark a real departure from the established life? Do you feel as if something is trying to burst… Read more »
Reviving the Lost Art of Cherishing
Join me May 26th at 6:30 pm to do just that: stop the clock for two and a half hours and cultivate a new awareness of how to cherish your beloved–the one within you, and the one you are partnered with. The evening will provide: the latest in bonding research an opportunity to explore your longings… Read more »
Trauma Resolution
Trauma has many faces, and if it is not adequately processed, it continues to be persistently debilitating to human function and spirit. Whether a single shattering incident, or prolonged exposure to deprivation or endangerment, optimal development is arrested and capacity in personal, interpersonal, and professional domains is inhibited. These impacts can be alleviated by trauma… Read more »
Deep Intimacy
What are hungry for in your sexual experience and expression? Do you long to: Become an imaginative, present, potent lover? Understand the “Erotic Equation” and rekindle the fire in your bond? Bring spirited being into the embrace? Be blown away and breathless by your Erotic Creature? Feel Felt? Move it like you Mean it?… Read more »
Relationship Readiness
Do you see repeated destructive patterns or make the same old mistakes occurring over and over in your intimate relationships and despair of ever being in a long-term, deeply nurturing bond?
Emotional Maturity
Developing emotional competence and intelligence is foundational for higher achievement and deep satisfaction in all realms of function: personal, interpersonal and professional. And it can be developed through a process of psych-education, practise of specific skills, undoing old emotional pain-patterning, and introspection, all of which Sara guides. Mental and Emotional hygiene is just as important… Read more »
Relapse Prevention
It’s important to respond early to a misstep! Don’t fall prey to the self-defeating habit of “hitting bottom” and wiping out all your gains when you can learn to u-turn back into sobriety. So you are finally clean from destructive processes or substances. Take a deep bow! You have taken an amazing and necessary first… Read more »
Group Offerings
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Intensive themes
Getting Your Sexy on In times of duress, sexual aliveness often wanes or extinguishes, often despite many attempts to keep it alight. This intensive gets up close and personal with the impediments and developmental impasses that block sexual vitality, authentic physical connection, and resonant emotional bonding. Partners will be guided through explicit discussion and supported… Read more »
Discernment Counselling
This is a short term (5 sessions maximum) intervention which supports ambivalent partners to make a decision to: 1. End the relationship and engage in conscious closure or 2. Re-commit though a ceremony and then seriously work on the dynamics that the discernment counselling has revealed. This method was developed by Dr. Bill Doherty, an international… Read more »
Therapeutic Separation
Therapeutic Separation (TS) is recommended when partners are burned out towards eachother, constantly “setting eachother off” and acting out in damaging ways. It is an established period of time where you continue your work in therapy, you remain a couple, but you reside apart. The “time away” is strategic and intended to allow partners to… Read more »
Conscious Uncoupling
When it’s time to part….. Consciously completing a relationship is a grand accomplishment and a radical departure from the traditional breakup marked by animosity, crushed self esteem, mistrust, and horrifying legal bills. Our culture is rampant with destructive breakups which induce intense suffering, some of which never heals. Hating the person you once loved is… Read more »