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The purpose of imagotherapy is to raise awareness and strengthen dialogue, attachment, cooperation and growth. To strengthen relational and emotional bonds and to understand and resolve conflicts. To rediscover the unique being in your partner and yourself and to rediscover love via insight and appreciative dialogue.
Imagotherapy is a unique and effective form of therapy for those of you who want to build a future together. Whether you have just met, have been together for many years or have been separated in crisis and need to be reunited.
Image therapy is also for individual clients. For example, singles who need to get to know themselves and attract the right partner and make it work. Or clients with soul scars from childhood who need healing. For example, adult-children of alcoholics.
In short, imagotherapy is about healing, development and prevention in healthy, loving and nurturing relationships, while at the same time raising awareness and minimizing the dynamics of dysfunctions in the relationship and the family.
Many cling to old wounds, are not really themselves and live a life according to the old paradigms of the family or society.
The aim of imagotherapy is to understand one’s inner dynamics, all one’s old traumas, free oneself from one’s origin, find one’s true self and live an authentic, loving and healthy life.
Image therapy is for you who want to get to the bottom of the old and unconscious paradigms, blueprints, patterns and playbooks. As well as damaged or broken relationships that keep straining you to have a good relationship and life.
It is an option for those and those couples who do not want to settle for short-term therapy and stabilization, but need full insight into their unconscious mindset and the baggage that they carry around – in order to heal, reconcile, make peace and create a good and healthy life.
Until you make the unconscious conscious,
it will direct your life and you will call it fate.
Carl Gustav Jung
You are welcome to start with a general consultation before you decide. Then you also get a free relationship test.
If you are clear and ready, you can already start directly in a course of imago therapy at the first consultation – on your new journey towards awareness, insight, responsibility, closeness, love, security, joy and health.
If you find out at the first meeting that you are not ready for imago and developmental therapy, you can continue in a regular course in couples therapy. Where you solve your problems and create calm and energy for development.
Afterwards, there is still the option to continue with imago therapy and along the way you will also have the opportunity to become familiar with several of the imago tools.
If you are ready, you can immediately start a course in imago couple therapy – with the aim of insight, sharing and healing as well as growth, development and prevention.
For courses in imagotherapy, there is the option of discount cut-out cards as well as free eBooks and imago tools.
The process includes eight phases, each with their own instructed and facilitated tools, tasks and exercises.
Most complete the course in 7-8 meetings over two months.
Depending on how far and deep you want to go, the process can also extend over 6-12 meetings over 2-4 months. As a supplement, work can also be done with views on marriage, falling in love and sexuality. If it needs to go quickly, the process can be carried out as a workshop or retreat in just 1 day.
Image therapy is also for others such as singles, the family and business.
Imago relationship therapy is primarily for couples. In addition, imagotherapy is for anyone who wants to understand themselves and their origin, as well as to strengthen their self and self-esteem, as well as to get better relationships and results.
In the family, imagotherapy helps to understand which patterns and dynamics the parents want and do not want to pass on to their children. Imago also helps the family to improve communication and cooperation. Read more under the menu item Family therapy .
Individual clients, who are in a relationship where the partner does not want to participate, get a program where they get the opportunity to get better and develop themselves.
Experience shows that it also supports the other party, develops the relationship and sharpens the other’s interest in development and imagotherapy.
Image therapy for singles is a help for e.g. dating in relation to finding themselves and the right partner as well as tools to make the future relationship work.
In addition, imagotherapy has helped many adults with attachment problems from dysfunctional families, such as adult children of alcoholics.
At work, when we e.g. communicate, sell, manage and collaborate, we also recreate our old family patterns and dynamics.
The imago method is therefore also used in business and by teams and departments where there are deadlocks, conflicts, breakdowns in communication or problems with relationships. See more under the menu items Business and Coaching .
Internationally, the imago method is used i.a. also locally in the Middle East conflict (The Peace Project).
Many know imagotherapy as the appreciative dialogue and the appreciative dialogue with change.
Imago dialogue and imago conversation are also what some people think of active listening, assertion training, giraffe language or transactional analysis. But it is not the same.
Imago-dialogue and imago-conversation are a specially framed, mentalizing, empathetic, security-creating and attachment-promoting form of conversation – psychological communication.
Through presence and consciously appreciative dialogue, you create via imago dialogue and imago conversation a safe psychological communicative platform with contact, curiosity, responsiveness, trust and openness – for human insight, self-insight and growth.
Imago dialogue and imago conversation thus form the basis for the continuing imago process, your ability to mentalize and your development.
The questions and tasks are formulated and structured in a special way so that they help you get to know yourself and your partner. Your true self, the reaction patterns you have in close contact and your shared dynamics.
It includes your origin and attachment – how you create, develop, maintain, avoid and settle your problems, relationships and closeness or distance.
It is about seeing the conflicts as opportunities for development and not as signs of weakness.
Personal and interpersonal insights help to create openness, empathy, recognition, tolerance, respect, trust, spaciousness and flexibility towards yourself and your partner. So you can be yourselves (authentic) in a genuine, loving, warm and safe presence.
Imago couple therapy is based on knowledge and research about what we humans have in common in the way we function in close relationships.
In time, you will thus begin to see your partner as a traveling companion who can help you unpack your luggage, and your differences as potentials, rather than conflicts.
Please watch this 6 minute video on YouTube, where Harville Hendrix, Ph.D. and Helen LaKelly Hunt, Ph.D. provides an introduction to imago therapy and imago dialogue.
Ordinary, short courses in couple therapy (short-term therapy) support most people in getting from crisis to stabilization, after which they continue with life – roughly where they left off, with their new tools, insights and knowledge of communication and problem solving. After the initial therapy and crisis management, however, most need developmental, preventive and maintenance therapy.
Other couples have neglected the relationship and lived in the third class – separate living, living-together-apart, family incorporated, the hamster wheel, miserable married etc. for a long time. Without greater closeness, intimacy, exchange, dynamism and growth. They often also need developmental, preventive and maintenance therapy.
Are you ready, hungry for more and striving for the conscious, living and loving relationship with retention of the good and development of the new? Then developing, preventive and maintaining imago therapy can be a ticket to the first class relationship – the conscious, living, developing, exchanging and loving relationship.
Imago courses require both determination, persistence, time, energy and money.
For reasons of economy and retention, it is possible to buy a clipping card. Prior to the engagement, you must decide with yourself whether the relationship and the program are important. Otherwise, you can start with a single consultation.
At the same time, you must continually confirm yourself in your commitment.
In practice, this means that you must plan your life in relation to the meetings and be prepared for dialogue, reflection and notes. On the other hand, there are no homework assignments.
One must also accept that the path to the conscious relationship does not follow a straight line, but that a relationship often develops in circles and waves.
Sometimes there is progress, stagnation, regression or resistance.
The imago program and the imago therapist support these situations, but it is the client who must do the work and be responsible for the retention. The results depend on the effort.
We are our relationships.
It is not us who have a relationship – it is the relationship that has us.
Our feelings, thoughts and behavior are largely a product of our origins, the relationships we find ourselves in and the relationships that were important to us in the past.
Since the problems we experience in the relationship with ourselves and in the relationship with the people around us, have their origin in current and past relationships, it is obvious to choose imagotherapy, which precisely processes the problems directly in the relationship.
Couples therapy using the imago method moves curiously, neutrally and exploratory back and forth between present and past relationships.
In order to thereby clarify the patterns and paradigms that have made us what we are and which have such a strong grip on us that we cannot realize our contemporary needs and values - it’s called self-regulation.
Through imago therapy, you can be seen and heard in a present way, so that you arrive at your own interpretations of who you are, what you want and desire, and understand yourself, your partner and your relationships better.
With imago relationship therapy, dialogue, healing and attachment are strengthened, so that you can make contact and stay in touch.
On a practical level, imago is about creating a common space for emotional and personal exploration and development with equality, speaking time and space as well as framework, structure and rules of the game.
On the level of insight, imago is about making interpretations, assessments and unconscious intentions and strategies conscious, so that you can see each other in a new, loving light.
On the dialogue level, imago is about strengthening the conscious and intentional dialogue, so that listening, mirroring, recognition and empathy can occur.
On the relational level, the imago is about understanding and making peace with your origins and broken relationships.
On the action level, the imago process focuses on what is going on between the parties and supports them in replacing the inappropriate and stuck with more appropriate and flexible patterns.
The aim is that you learn to stretch yourself and go against your inappropriate impulses and old habits.