Imago Marriage Counseling in Rockville Maryland

Imago Relationship
Therapy was
co-created by Harville
Hendrix, Ph.D. and
Helen LaKelly Hunt,
Ph.D. Their books on
Imago Relationship
Therapy, including
Getting The Love You
Want: A Guide for
Couples have sold
more that 2 million
copies and have been
translated into more
than 50 languages.

What is Imago Relationship Therapy?
Marriage Counseling

There is no place for blame, contempt, defensiveness or caustic criticism in a successful

loving relationship. These things can creep into the communications between loving partners.

Imago Relationship therapy 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
techniques that couples can use on their own to 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 Couples Dialog communications 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.

You learn how to stay in control of yourself without automatically reacting so instinctively

and defensively that your partner is driven away. You learn to express your frustrations to your
partner without your partner feeling threatened so that effective and loving communication can
continue.

Through

the

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.

Here is an article outlining the s

cientific research that has been conducted regarding the

Imago marriage counseling method.