Collaborative Couple Therapy
Collaborative Couple Therapy, developed by Daniel Wile, Ph.D., is a therapeutic approach that takes the couple’s immediate concern (usually a fight or a period of withdrawing from each other) and tries to turn it into an intimate conversation. A therapist practicing Collaborative Couple Therapy will, at times, speak for one or both partners in an effort to show them what it would sound like if they were having an intimate and productive conversation rather than the fight or withdrawal they are experiencing.
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Kate McNulty
Licensed Clinical Social Worker
Collaborative Couples Therapy helps couples learn to attend to one another's natural emotional reactions with empathy and compassion, rather than becoming adversarial with each other. I have studied intensively with Dan WIle, who developed this method and who john Gottman, a renowned researcher in this field, has called 'our greatest living marital therapist.'
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Douglas Johns (he/him)
Licensed Clinical Social Worker
LCSW
Collaborative Couple Therapy (CCT) starts from the belief that problems in relationship are also opportunities for increasing intimacy and connection through understanding & communicating the deeper truth of your feelings, beneath anger, defensiveness, & avoidance. As your therapist, my ongoing internal question is, “How do I help this couple have an intimate conversation about their present dilemma" to eliminate fallback measures like "attack", "defend", and "withdraw"?
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