Ogner Robert Lcws

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CONVERSATIONS For CONNECTION : A Relationship Education Group for Couples

You can strengthen your marriage or relationship in ways that can surprise you. Trouble, distance, and sometimes just the hard stresses of life lead to a loss of playfulness in our relationships. We need robust, assertive, joyful expressiveness. We need vigorous & creative exertion that leads to laughter. We need to see each other in fresh ways and playfulness is a force for emotionally connecting. This date night workshop for couples helps exercise the impish, elfish, roguish and frisky qualities of play. I've offered this date night workshop for couples for ten years and it is always a rollicking fun and enlivening date night. Follow this link to "Playfulness".

Convenient to Thousand Oaks, Agoura Hills, Calabasas, Woodland Hills, Simi Valley, & Camarillo.

In San Fernando Valley; convenient to Van Nuys, Sherman Oaks, Studio City, Tarzana, Reseda, Woodland Hills, & Northridge

A Website About Couple Relationships, Couple Therapy & Tips To Make Couple Therapy Work For You.

I have been helping couples for thirty years. I have a particular enthusiasm and feel for this work and I keep learning. Read a little more about my practice and about how I think about couple therapy. I'm also excited to support StoryCorps' National Day of Listening, this fall, by helping community members interview a loved and admired couple. See the link below.

Two evenings for men (women invited) about being in relationship. Using film segments, readings and conversation, we'll discuss obstacles to empathy and friendship and the nature of attachment and belonging in your relationship.

Follow this link for more information about "Men In Relationship".

Westlake Couple Center will provide recording space, equipment, and help on November 26 for recording the stories of ten couples. Follow this link for more information.

Record the Story of a Couple you Love for their Family Oral History

Interview parents, grandparents, grown children, or any couple you love and admire for National Listening Day.

Examples: How understanding, empathy and tenderness developed. How the couple met. How they worked together in the face of adversity. The story of a shared harrowing adventure or of coming back from the brink of danger. The things they most value in each other or value in their marriage. Possibilities abound.

The promise and the hope was that you would feel close & connected, important & valued, trusted & known--all those good qualities of loving in a marriage.
You still want these things for yourself and for your partner. But somehow that frustrating cycle of relating keeps getting in the way, or sometimes, worse, a distance develops in which it's not easy to remember the basis for that original promise.
There really is hope for help! Your strong loving feelings toward one another can return as the active agent for connecting in your relationship.
Seeking help can be a worrisome thing. What if your therapist doesn't know how to help? What if things get worse?
I promise that I will help you know how to evaluate my ability to help very early in our work and if I am not the right therapist for you, I will help you find a better match. I only charge for the initial consultation if you decide to return.
Please take some time to explore my website. There are short articles about couple relating that can help you understand some of how couple therapy helps.