• Weekly Imago Couples Sessions: I work with couples who are in distress, want to learn how to communicate in a completely new way, want to end conflict, deepen connection, and increase overall happiness in their relationship. These sessions are 90 minutes in length and require a 12 week commitment to begin.

• Couples Intensives: Sometimes the hurt experienced in a relationship requires more than a typical 90 minute session to begin the process of repair. Or, sometimes couples who have very busy schedules find it useful to take a weekend off from the rest of the world to laser focus on their relationship. Intensives can be an extremely transformative and healing process, but as the name suggests, they can also be very intense. I offer intensives in 4-hour blocks on weekends only.

• Couples Retreats: I co-facilitate local and international Imago relationship retreats and have one coming up in Portugal in April. Over 7 days, you and your partner will experience the benefits of getting out of your routine, seeing the world together, reconnecting, and working alongside other couples to heal and transform your relationship the Imago way.

Getting started is simple. Click the “Work with Minnie” at the top of this page to schedule a free 15-minute consultation call—we’ll walk you through the next steps and answer any questions along the way.

I am direct but warm, funny but unafraid to hold you accountable. I am not going to use clinical language, but I will use my experience, education, and expertise to help you leap forward in your relationship. I am a cheerleader for love and I am 100% confident that you can and will have the loving relationship you deserve.

The word Imago means image, and I like to think of it as our own personal blueprint of love formulated by our unique and unconscious beliefs about what it means to love and be loved. We develop this blueprint very early on in our lives, based on the relationships we had (or didn’t have) with our parents or other important caregivers, and the relationships we observed between them.

We then grow up and unconsciously seek out both the positive and negative qualities of these relationships. We also unconsciously project onto our partners that they are behaving in both these positive and negative ways, and we often unconsciously provoke our partners into behaving in those ways…not necessarily because it feels good, but because it feels familiar. It fits the blueprint. We do this in service of healing those old childhood wounds so we can return to our fully alive, fully realized selves.

Imago helps you discover what that blueprint is, and helps you to redraft it. Because guess what? It was only a first draft. We just didn’t realize we needed to make some changes to the plans or that it was even possible.

Imago Dialogue

Imago is a process that we call dialogical meaning we use dialogue. Most of the time, when you are , you begin to unravel these unconscious processes and heal the wounds that fuel them. Pain starts to dissipate, you grow closer to your partner, you rebuild safety, trust, and learn how to communicate with each other in a way that deepens your connection rather than your divide. You find yourself finally on the same team where both of you win.

Lost Parts

We also do a lot of work to discover Lost Parts of ourselves. These are parts of ourselves that we shoved away into exile because somewhere along the line we received repressive messages about our own lovability. We internalized these messages from society, our family, culture, school, religious organizations, TV and movies, the news, and other sources and turned them into beliefs about whether parts of ourselves are acceptable, or lovable and the ones we decided were not get hidden an locked away. But it is painful to hide parts of yourself away. Maybe you learned that “Boys don’t cry.” That painful tightness in your throat that almost chokes you when you see something sad or get really hurt is a signal that boys in fact should cry, but a part of you might believe you won’t be loved or accepted if you do. So you choke it down, don’t allow the tears to fall, and fight against your true nature...your fully aliveness. Imago helps you to rediscover and learn to love and welcome these parts of yourself.

The first couples session with me lasts between 2.5-3 hours and is $350. Subsequent weekly sessions last between 75-90 minutes and cost $245. I do not accept insurance, but I do offer a $5 discount to those who pay by cash or check.