Services

 

Therapy for Individuals

In a nutshell, individual therapy is a process where you tell me where you want to go, and I bring the resources to help us work together to get there.

First, we work together to get clear about what you want.  This is where it all begins.

“How would you be different if this process were a complete success?”

I want to be less angry around my children, let them feel my love, and break a generational cycle of distance.

I want to overcome my self-doubt at work, so I can feel confident and take risks.

I want to be more emotionally available to my partner.

I want to stop apologizing to the world for my existence and feel good about myself.

I want to replace my anxiety spirals with peace and self-confidence, so I can relax and live in the moment.

Focused on your goals, we then begin working our way in that direction.

In order to create lasting change, you must have a new experience.  This is where we bring the many tools of psychology into the picture.  Parts work, memory reconsolidation, trauma work, attachment-based interventions, interpersonal neurobiology, somatic and body-based awareness.  We build together a clear and determined path ahead.

 

Therapy can progress at whatever pace is right for you.  Some people choose to meet weekly.  Others choose every-other-week or monthly.  Still others choose an intensive, where we meet for a half-day or full day, in order to build momentum and allow time for deep, transformative work all at one time.

People from many different career paths have been part of my practice, including

  • Nurses and Physicians
  • Artists and Musicians
  • Workers in Construction and Building Trades
  • Students
  • Entrepreneurs and Small Business Owners
  • Retirees
  • Real Estate Agents

Please contact me if you have questions about whether I would be a good “fit” for your situation.  I promise to be honest with you about my capabilities.

I offer individual therapy on-line or in person.  Sessions can be 50-minutes, 80-minutes, or 110-minutes, or a half- or full-day intensive.

 

Individual Therapy Pricing

 

50-minute session: $155

80-minute session:  $225

110-minute session: $295

 

Half-day Intensive (4 hr): $595

Full-day Intensive (7 hr): $995

 

Therapy for Couples

Our primary love relationship can be the most powerful avenue for strength and delight, and it can also be a source of frustration and pain.  In order to change relationships for the better, we need a proven roadmap to make sense of it all.  In Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy (EFT), we use the research-validated Attachment Theory to guide our work, which says that the quality of the emotional bond determines the health of the relationship.

The first step of EFT is to create a safe space in therapy.  Each member of the couple must know that the therapist understands them, understands their intentions, and understands why they react the way they do.  If you’ve had the misfortune to experience couples therapy where you felt “ganged up on,” this will feel very different for you.

 

Also in EFT, it is important to understand the emotional dynamics of your arguments.  This will be a very different way of looking at your fights, but it’s the only way to truly create structural change in how you relate.

 

 

Our primary love relationship can be the most powerful avenue for strength and delight, and it can also be a source of frustration and pain.  In order to change relationships for the better, we need a proven roadmap to make sense of it all.  In Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy (EFT), we use the research-validated Attachment Theory to guide our work, which says that the quality of the emotional bond determines the health of the relationship.

The first step of EFT is to create a safe space in therapy.  Each member of the couple must know that the therapist understands them, understands their intentions, and understands why they react the way they do.  If you’ve had the misfortune to experience couples therapy where you felt “ganged up on,” this will feel very different for you.

Also in EFT, it is important to understand the emotional dynamics of your arguments.  This will be a very different way of looking at your fights, but it’s the only way to truly create structural change in how you relate.

 

Some relationships are dealing with crisis or betrayal.  If you have an experience where one partner feels their trust has been broken, either recently or in the past, this must be addressed emotionally in order to heal.  Usually when couples try to repair these “attachment wounds” it has not come to a sense of resolution.  EFT provides a roadmap to address the wounds in an honest, productive, and potentially healing way.

 

In EFT, we begin with an 80-minute session together, where we discuss the “stuck places,” your goals for the relationship, and we develop a clear picture of how to proceed toward those goals together.  Then we schedule two 50-minute individual sessions where I meet with each member of the couple individually.  From then on, we meet together.

You deserve to know and understand exactly what we’re doing in therapy and why, because if you know why you’re making progress, you are more likely to be able to continue that progress into the future.

To learn more about EFT and our research on relationship improvement, please see the Resources page.

 

Couples Therapy Pricing

 

Initial session (80-minutes): $260

50-minute session: $175

80-minute session:  $260

110-minute session: $340

 

Speaking and Education

It’s my delight to share insights from psychology, therapy, religious studies, and my own experiences with others.  When people invite me to group events, either as a speaker or to conduct a class, it’s an opportunity to create a space where we can all be affected and changed. If you have a group or a class that would enjoy a conversation about the science of truly healthy relationships, working with the emotional brain, becoming your authentic self, the spiritual journey to emotional wellness, or other such topics, please contact me.

Call

(801)-509-3538

Email

andy@beginningnow.net

Office Location

For in-person appointments:

314 W Broadway (300 S) Suite 222, Salt Lake City, UT 84105

Located inside Hearten House, directly above Caputo’s Italian Market.

Mailing Address

32 West 200 South, #143
Salt Lake City, UT 84101