Relationship and Couples Coaching, Couples Counseling and Coaching in Petaluma and San Francisco California

Research shows us the three biggest issues involved in ending relationships are money, sex, and communication. Research can predict the health, intimacy, and life span of a relationship by how people handle stress in these three areas.  In our work with couples, we address these issues.

While solving problems and alleviating symptoms are a part of this work, its main focus is to further the unfolding of your being, so that you may live your life with greater ease, awareness, authenticity, wholeness and passion. For couples, this includes learning to relate to each other in ways that create greater understanding, honesty, and intimacy and pleasure between you.

• Learn to relate in ways that deepen understanding, honesty, and intimacy.
• Become skillful listeners and communicators.
• Address issues that create anger, disappointment, resentment, and distance.
• Reignite passion.
• Expand sexual responsiveness and pleasure.
• Resolve money conflicts and become more at peace around money
• Move with greater ease through life challenges and transitions: parenting, marriage, divorce, illness, aging, death, and loss.
• Use the lessons of relationship for growth and awakening.

“I have worked with Johanina for many years individually, as part of a couple, and in many group sessions. Johanina brings insight, compassion, and intelligence to her work with people. She draws from a vast toolkit of skills and knowledge gleaned from years of psychological and spiritual study, and she effectively uses mind-body therapy techniques, effective listening, support, and, at times, keen advice. She is a skilled group facilitator. Long ago I stopped referring to her as my therapist. To me, she is my ‘Wise Woman’ – my mentor, teacher, friend.”
– Ericka Lutz, author, professor, writing coach

 

Is a soul connection important to you?

“A soul connection is a resonance between two people who respond to the essential beauty of each other’s individual natures, behind their facades, and who connect on this deeper level. This kind of mutual recognition provides the catalyst for a potent alchemy. It is a sacred alliance whose purpose is to help both partners discover and realize their deepest potentials. While a heart connection lets us appreciate those we love just as they are, a soul connection opens up a further dimension — seeing and loving them for who they could be, and for who we could become under their influence. This means recognizing that we both have an important part to play in helping each other become more fully who we are…. A soul connection not only inspires us to expand, but also forces us to confront whatever stands in the way of that expansion.”
– John Welwood

“Johanina is one of the top therapists in the country. She provides an exceptionally safe environment for emotional healing.”
Charles Muir, author, Tantra, The Art of Conscious Loving