Blending Mindfulness with effective, research-based, therapy approaches.
Mindfulness blends with highly effective therapy approaches in working with both individuals and couples, teaching skills which are quite easily learned and practiced and can support new and powerful transformations which improve lives and relationships.
Therapy with individuals teaching skills using Acceptance and Commitment therapy (ACT), Dialectical Behavioral therapy (DBT), Cognitive-behavioral, psychodynamic and Transpersonal approaches.
Relationship and Marital Therapy with Couples integrating Gottman Couples therapy with Acceptance and Commitment therapy (ACT), Dialectical Behavioral therapy (DBT) and Psychodynamic and Transpersonal approaches.
A word about Relationship and Couples Counseling…
There’s no question about it folks, taking care of a couple relationship or marriage can be difficult, challenging & tough-going. Some relationships just never make it. But many more could be improved and transformed in powerful ways…
What about yours? Do you find yourselves…
- Having painful conflicts and arguments, over and over?
- Feeling distant from each other and drifting further and further apart?
- No time for my partner or myself?
- Wishing we treated each other with more respect & kindness?
- Not listening to each other, not connecting like we used to?
- Feeling hurt and resentful?
There’s no doubt, we live in a stressful and high-pressured world, starved of time as the pace of our lives accelerate.
Pressures and stressors which all too often sap our energy and passion, leaving us feeling exhausted with little to no fuel for attending to each other. This becomes all the more difficult when there are children needing our attention and time. Or work obligations or daily life stressors sapping our energy.
Often, there seems to be no time for our partners, and the relationship, let alone ourselves.
Do any of these sound like your relationship?
- “We hardly talk to each other”
- “There’s just too much arguing and fighting.”
- “There’s never any time for the two of us…”
- “It feels like we are slowly drifting slowly apart..”
- “My partner’s just a messy slob.. I can’t stand it anymore.”
- “Sometimes I wonder whether divorce is the only solution…”
Whether you are in new relationship, engaged to be married, been together a while, or in your second or third marriage – with couples and marriage counseling your relationship will be energized and revitalized by learning powerful, cutting edge, proven relationship-transforming skills.
Above all, making the decision to improve your relationship is a powerful step in a positive direction. At the San Francisco Couples Training Institute, you’ll benefit from over twenty five years of experience specializing in Couples and marriage therapy making relationships and marriages more joyful and fulfilling.
What you’ll take away with you are research-based strategies and skills which are quite easily learned and which can be practiced and developed over time.
….SO DON’T DESPAIR. DON’T GIVE UP.
We give you the tools in Couples counseling sessions which work for you and which you can start using immediately to help your relationship and marriage thrive, heal and grow. So give yourself, your partner and your family a truly precious gift: the opportunity to have the relationship you really want.
Allan Pleaner MFT
allanpleaner@gmail.com
#415-468-2627 office
#415-218-4653 cell
#415-753-6657 fax
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