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My passion has been relationships since day one and so I focused on learning all the things that pertained to healthy relationships. I studied Gottman Marital Therapy, Emotionally Focused Couples’ Therapy, Premarital Counseling, Attachment Styles, and Sex Therapy. Another focus area of mine was working with veterans and first responders, so I also became certified as a Clinical Trauma Professional, and received EMDR training.

I am most proud of creating the STRONG Model of Relational Therapy which is a trauma-informed, attachment-based approach to couples’ therapy. It blends a skills-forward, structured approach with a somatic, trauma-informed base of safety and connection. I have had the opportunity to train other therapists in this model,
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Kristal DeSantis As a Marriage and Family Therapist, I found that so many people were coming into therapy with some very similar questions, patterns, and themes. Altho…moreAs a Marriage and Family Therapist, I found that so many people were coming into therapy with some very similar questions, patterns, and themes. Although every single relationship is different, I wanted to empower my clients by sharing some basic tenets of healthy relationships with them in book form. I found that many of the beginning sessions were simply focused on psychoeducation, and since therapy can be pretty expensive, I figured if I could get the psychoeducation part into a book, the work of therapy would be more effective and beneficent by then being able to focus more on the deep, personal work of the couple/individual.

Also, the reason I focused the book to men is that there are already so many resources out there for women, and I wanted to help balance the field a little bit. Men were expressing to me when they came into therapy that a big part of the hesitation they felt toward beginning therapy was the lack of knowledge of therapy terms which affected their confidence in the process. I wanted to write this book for men to dispel some myths and shed some light on the process of therapy and explain some terms in detail. I believe that information is power, so the more information I could provide to men before beginning therapy, I hoped the more empowered they would feel walking into their first therapy session. (less)
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Rainer Maria Rilke
“Again and again, however we know the landscape of love
and the little churchyard there, with its sorrowing names,
and the frighteningly silent abyss into which the others
fall: again and again the two of us walk out together
under the ancient trees, lie down again and again
among the flowers, face to face with the sky.”
Rainer Maria Rilke, Ahead of All Parting: The Selected Poetry and Prose

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