Couples in distress enter therapy holding two goals that they now experience as mutually exclusive: to feel loved and to feel understood. Toni Herbine-Blank’s powerful new brand of couple therapy, Intimacy from the Inside Out (IFIO), offers a comprehensive conceptual map for achieving both goals. This book shows the IFIO therapist working with the natural subdivisions – or parts – of the human mind in a dyad, guiding and supporting couples to understand how they project childhood injury into current relationships.
Key Features
- Elegant case illustrations wrapped around clear instruction.
- Focus on generating internal attachment stability.
- Guidance for couples to reconnect with their essential needs.
- Strategies for changing conversations to invite rather than threaten.
Additional Information
Feeling threatened, frustrated and angry, couples often lose track of their underlying needs to feel safe, connected and loved. In IFIO therapy, couples learn to make requests that invite rather than threaten in order to get those needs met.
