Why work with us?
We create personalized coaching and intensives that integrate understanding and insight building skills, with tools and practices that repair and rebuild a strong relationship foundation.
Our work is based in the current research on secure adult bonding, neuroscience, emotionally focused couples therapy, and sex therapy. It is grounded in user-friendly scientific and evidence-based wisdom.
You’ll learn the Arts of Love and Intimacy; relationship nourishing practices that you can integrate into your daily life to keep your bond exciting and fresh.
We understand that lust does not last.
But intimacy and sexual satisfaction can grow when you feel safe and close to each other; and trust yourself to provide good self-care.
New relationships, empty nesting, divorce, illness, death, financial challenges, aging, changing sexual responsiveness and other transitions are stressful.
It’s challenging to make lasting changes.
Sometimes you take a big leap forward before stress sends you back into old habits of relating.
But don’t give up.
Help is available right here.
(Click here to set up a 30 minute no charge call to find out if working with us is your next step.)
How we work with you:
We know that each person and couple is facing a unique set of challenges.
Focusing on and assessing your needs is where we begin. Then we map a course of action specifically for you.
Step one:
You gain insight and understanding into your relationship patterns and make a shift in the way you relate.
Step two:
You learn the skills and tools to repair your relationship when you become triggered or reactive.
Step three:
You learn to nourish your intimate connection with pleasure and play.
Step four:
You have our personal support and access to our resources during the time it takes you to integrate and sustain change.
Andy and Johanina each see individuals and couples. We have individual areas of specialization as well as overlapping expertise. Please inquire if you need help determining which of us will best suit your needs. You can also work both of us together. You can learn more about us by going to clicking About Andy and About Johanina.
You can work with us in:
Therapeutic Coaching Sessions
Intensives
Our sessions are conducted in person in Petaluma and San Francisco California, or by phone and Skype.
In additions to seeing people in person in San Francisco, we also offer sessions and Intensives in our home office in the San Francisco wine country of Sonoma County, thirty-five minutes from the Golden Gate Bridge. You can combine a relationship intensive with a weekend away. There are many things to see and experience nearby, from visiting wineries, the ocean, and hiking, to dining in world-class restaurants. Bed and Breakfasts, hotels, and lodging are easily available.