PAIRS "Passage to Intimacy"
(16-hours/2-day workshop)
Objectives: To identify and understand how the logic of love, emotional allergies, dirty fighting tactics, stressed communication and emotional memory tend to sabotage our relationships; To learn communication and fair fighting skills that promote physical and emotional closeness and a deeper understanding of self and partner.

"PAIRS First"
(24 hours/8-sessions)
Objectives: Utilize PAIRS, MBTI and PREPARE/ENRICH to explore couple strength and growth areas and the hidden expectations, emotional allergies, dirty fighting tactics, assumptions, stress styles and emotional memories that often sabotage relationships; To learn communication tools and strategies that honor type difference and fair fighting skills that promote physical and emotional closeness and deeper understanding of self and partner.

PAIRS "If You Really Loved Me…"
(8-hours/1-day workshop)
Objective: To learn relationship skills that help identify and work through the hidden expectations, assumptions and emotional allergies that often sabotage relationships.

PAIRS "Hot Monogamy"
(Individualized consultations & workshops)
Objectives: To understand how the body, brain, trust and the course of true love impact sexuality & relationships; To open lines of communication about compatibility, romance, sexual love knots and sensuality.

PREPARE/ENRICH Inventory
(Individualized couple consultations)
Objective: To use the 165-item inventory to guide meaningful dialogue, explore couple strength and growth areas and develop goals regarding communication, conflict resolution, personality issues, relationship expectations, financial management, leisure activities, sexual relationship, children/parenting, family, friendships, role relationship, spiritual beliefs and closeness/flexibility.

MBTI (Myers-Briggs Type Indicator)
(Individualized consultations & workshops)
Objectives: To identify how one maximizes energy, processes and gathers information, makes decisions and organizes life; To understand and address communication issues; To identify potential strengths and challenges in personal and work lives; To identify learning and teaching styles; To alleviate criticism and blame by focusing on individual gifts and constructive uses of complimentary differences.

It Is What You Say and How You Say It: Using the MBTI For Your Relationships
(Individualized consultations & workshops)
Objectives: To understand how & why misunderstandings and communication difficulties often result from innate, personality differences; To utilize strategies of relating and communicating that honor other types while still conveying one's intended message.

How to Avoid Falling In Love With a Jerk
(10 hours/5 sessions)
Objectives: To explore the major areas that predict what someone will be like in marriage and the bonding forces that must be kept in balance as a relationship grows; To learn to follow your heart and mind through building healthy trust, reliance, commitment & boundaries while minimizing vulnerabilities.


* As a strengths-wellness-research-based Clinical Social Worker, my consultations, workshops and classes are by nature psycho-educational but are not intended as therapy or treatment nor as a replacement for such.*