As a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, I integrate the How We Love framework into my therapeutic approach to help clients better understand their relational patterns and build healthier connections.
In my practice, I use these principles to:
Assess relational patterns – I help clients identify their own and their partner’s attachment styles, increasing self-awareness and understanding of recurring relationship challenges.
Promote empathy and understanding – By recognizing each person’s underlying emotional needs and fears, couples and individuals can approach conflict with more compassion rather than frustration.
Guide communication and conflict resolution – I teach clients strategies tailored to their attachment styles for expressing needs, setting boundaries, and responding to their partner in ways that reduce reactivity and increase connection.
Support growth and healing – Using How We Love as a roadmap, clients can develop more secure relational habits, heal past wounds, and create deeper intimacy in their relationships.
Enhance premarital and marriage counseling – I incorporate How We Love exercises and discussions in both premarital preparation and ongoing marriage therapy to strengthen relational foundations and prevent destructive cycles.
Overall, How We Love provides a practical, attachment-based lens that empowers clients to recognize patterns, understand themselves and others, and cultivate healthier, more fulfilling relationships.