Individuals with psychophysiological disorders made worse by stress, anxiety, depression, and shame. Men who want to explore intimacy and vulnerability, anger, career and parenting issues, and online addictions. Van quickly earned confidence from both my husband and me, even though we had very different comfort levels with the therapy process. He was savvy about gender roles and working with both men and women, and was experienced enough to challenge us to examine our dynamics in a fresh and positive way.
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I HAVE OVER TWENTY-FIVE YEARS OF EXPERIENCE helping clients transform their lives so they can engage life, work, and love more fully. I specialize with couples who have given up hope - or been in prior unsuccessful couples therapy -helping them take positive steps that lead to increased joy, intimacy, and connection.
Perhaps you're seeking professional help because an affair has rocked your marriage. Or you and your partner are stuck in a cycle of blame and avoidance that's turned you into combatants or exhausted strangers who occupy the same space but live in different universes. Or maybe you're just tired of feeling lonely and bored with a partner who's kind, but preoccupied.
DELVING INTO THE PAST TO HELP PARTNERS UNDERSTAND why they have resorted to these strategies can be helpful, but it often doesn't provide immediate or lasting relief, or hope. From our first sessions, I work proactively to create a new experience of relating so couples can feel what it's like to be vulnerable again.
WHEN YOU'RE ANCHORED TO YOUR SELF - to what you feel and want, and who you are - living can become the spontaneous expression of your own inner beauty and innate freedom. Most emotional wounding happens in relationship, so the brain needs to experience a new and attuned relationship to register a reparative experience.
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Ernest G.
May 27, 2020
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For people looking for couples therapy I recommend Van Metaxas. He really helped my wife and me on how to really see and appreciate each other after 18 years of marriage and child-rearing. He is excellent on direct communication, setting goals, and helping you meet them. I'm a cis-gender male, raised traditionally to be stoic and quiet--and Van helped me work from that background, respecting where I come from but also not accepting that as an excuse for not communicating. I really did get a sense of the three of us working together and achieving something.
