Norene Gonsiewski, MSW, LCSW is a certified Imago™ Relationship Therapist and has counseled couples since 1980. In addition to treating all couples who want to improve communication and enhance their intimacy, Norene has specialized in couples who have ill children, blended families, gay and lesbian couples, and those couples who feel “at the end of the road” in their relationship. Norene continues to grow in her own marriage and is the loving mom of two young adult children.

Tim Higdon, MS, LPC has been a certified Imago Relationship therapist and advanced Imago Clinician for 13 years. He is an Imago Workshop Presenter and has worked with individuals, couples, families and the central Oregon community since 1980. He has extensive training in family systems therapy and as a Love and Logic Educator, he is able to support parents in their relationship growth and parenting skills. Tim’s expertise is helping people build satisfying and lasting long term relationships. Tim focuses on restoring connections ruptured by conflict and stress.

Catherine M. Melo, MSW, LCSW is a Clinical Social Worker with a wealth of experience. She has been a student of Imago Relationship Therapy for over 10 years. She is an Advanced Clinician in Imago Relationship Therapy (IRT) and Certified Workshop Presenter. She is dedicated to working with individuals and couples because she has seen how this simple yet profound approach can transform both the individual and the relationship. She is passionate about this work because of her own personal experience with Imago Relationship Therapy in her relationship with her husband, John.

Catherine is known for her warmth, candor, humor, passion and energy. She connects with her couples with empathy and insight, meeting them wherever they are in their relationship journey and helping them find the relationship of their dreams.

“I do believe we are healing the world, one relationship at a time” she says. “We are relational beings. It is our birthright to feel lovingly connected, alive and energetic in all of our relationships. I am committed to helping people realize that birthright”.

In addition to “Getting the Love You Want” couples workshops, Catherine mentors couples in private sessions in her office. She is also highly experienced in working with persons dealing with trauma and grief after working many years with combat veterans at the VA.

John Wolfe, MSW is a recent graduate of the Imago Relationship Clinical Training. With his strong interest in multicultural and blended families, John offers personal and professional expertise in these much underserved areas. Blending families is a difficult task and is a significant contributor to the 60-80% divorce rate among second marriages. John has worked with couples for over two decades and finds that Imago Therapy offers blended couples, as well as all couples, the toolbox that other systems lack. ack.

Nancy Irey Holmes, PsyD is a recently certified Imago Therapist. Nancy’s approach to Imago and to all of her work with clients is holistic in its integration of body, mind and spirit. She has a strong background in helping her clients to self-sooth during times of upheaval and stress and has worked extensively with illness and health related issues. Nancy’s expertise makes her a perfect match for couples who are facing difficult issues with aging, poor health or other life related stresses.

Consider our services whether you are:

• Beginning a new relationship and want to get off to a healthy start
• Making a commitment and would like help in clarifying the relationships goals
• Looking to enrich a good relationship
• Experiencing a difficult time in a relationship and want to resolve your reoccurring conflicts
• Hoping to repair the damage from an affair
• Considering divorce or separation and want to heal the relationship through reconciliation or increased understanding

The staff of Innovations in Counseling is diversely trained and has extensive experience in couples counseling. Sometimes when working with couples, a counselor needs to be a cheer leader and sometimes a drill sergeant. At all times when working with relationships a counselor needs to provide a safe container in which a couple can open up into more honesty with one another.

We utilize the techniques of Imago Relationship Therapy™, pioneered by Harville Hendrix, and perfected by some of therapy’s brightest minds.

Imago™ offers couples, parents, families and singles who are hoping to find a permanent intimate relationship:

• A new way to love.
• Helping each other heal childhood wounds and grow into a full adult.
• All the tools necessary for immediate relief and for transforming relationships.
• Greater compassion for your partner.
• New communication skills to break destructive cycles of relating. Couples learn how to channel the energy from their arguments to create passion and stability in their relationship.
• Discovering how the unconscious forces that attract you to your partner are also the source of conflict. Couples learn more about themselves and their partner, organized in a new, more thoughtful way.
• New tools for re-romanticizing your relationship to rekindle the passion of your early time together.
• Learning how to use your relationship for emotional healing and spiritual development.

(The above is excerpted from the Imago website which you can visit for complete information at http://www.imagorelationships.org/)

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