Imago Maryland Marriage Counseling

What is Imago Relationship Therapy?
Marriage Counseling

Blame, contempt, defensiveness or caustic criticism have no place in a successful loving

relationship. Over time, these things can easily creep into the communications between otherwise
loving partners.

An Imago marriage counselor teaches couples how to nurture each other and calm their

own defensiveness at the same time. Based on Dr. Harville Hendrix's book, Getting the Love You
Want, this marriage counseling approach combines intensive self-awareness work with behavior
modification techniques that couples can use on their own to quickly create more safety and
security with each other.

Communications difficulties are often at the root of marital problems.

Marriage counseling

using the Imago method is based mostly on the communication exercises that you follow with your
partner during the counseling sessions. You can quickly learn the required skills to establish
comfort and safety whenever you speak with your partner. These exercises can be repeated at
home, which reinforce the sessions and accelerate marital healing.

You will learn how to stay in control of yourself without automatically reacting based on

instinct alone and with a kind of defensive attitude that your partner is driven away. You learn to
express your frustrations to your partner without your partner feeling threatened so that you can
deliver your message without your partner dismissing you.

Through other exercises that follow, you can rediscover why you were attracted to your

partner in the first place, and rekindle that affection. Suzanne uses these exercises extensively in
her practice in Rockville, Maryland. Please call Suzanne at 301-590-0204 so she can tell you
more about how she can help you.

Here is an article outlining the s

cientific research that has been conducted regarding the

Imago marriage counseling method.