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Healthy relationships are an essential ingredient in a happy, meaningful life, helping us to enjoy a sense of belonging, connection, and acceptance. So when a couple suffers from unwanted conflicts, it can feel devastating. Drifting apart, fighting, or having contempt for one another can impact emotional, mental, and physical health, lowering quality of life.
Relational therapy (also called relational-cultural therapy) supports clients in discovering healthier coping mechanisms in terms of how they relate to others. Alex Szablya in New Orleans offers relational therapy for couples seeking enhanced inner harmony and balance, nurturing bonds, and a deeper sense of empathy and compassion for their partner.
Alex is distinguished from other couples therapists by her focus on the positive when it comes to relationships. She emphasizes what is already working in the partnership, the unique gifts each client brings to the table, the positive intentions of each partner, and the potential for the relationship to deepen and evolve. This approach is invaluable, as many couples come into therapy already overwhelmed with negativity, stress, and frustration. Alex believes that love is always a decision, and when given the right tools, partners can achieve the positive outcome and harmonious future they envision.
Alex works with all kinds of clients: Same-gendered, non-binary, polyamorous, and heteronormative. Clients come from all over the country and the globe, with a vast array of backgrounds. Whether they are seeking to heighten physical and emotional intimacy, are in crises due to unresolved disputes and conflicts, or are simply looking to take their partnership to the next level, Alex provides a warm, supportive, solution-focused environment where couples can rekindle their bond.
Alex Szablya offers Marathon Intensives and weekly sessions for couples, incorporating several different evidence-based modalities into her work, including relational therapy.
Your healing journey with Alex begins with a private 30-minute consultation that is distinguished by the following factors:
Your consultation will entail:
Relational therapy supports the idea that healthy relationships are integral to our well-being, growth, and success in life. In sessions, suffering is explored through the lens of relational setbacks and challenges. This therapy modality focuses on five key areas:
Relational therapy examines whether your relationships are working. Are they providing support, connection, love, peace, and a sense of belonging? Or are they causing stress, doubt, loneliness, frustration, and alienation? Alex Szablya helps you learn practical strategies to create a foundation for intimacy so your partnership can thrive.
Meaningful, trust-based bonds blossom when both partners are honest, authentic, and vulnerable. Relational therapy can help you discover your true self and retain it when interacting with others.
Negative past experiences can continue to impact the present, undermining your relationship goals. Alex Szablya can help you work through difficult memories and identify self-defeating patterns, preconceptions, and fallacies that keep you from thriving in your partnership.
Alex Szablya can help you explore issues of race, gender identity, sexual orientation, culture, and economic status, and how they may be impacting your connections with others.
In relational therapy, the bond you form with your therapist allows you to deepen and gain trust in your other relationships. Your therapeutic relationship provides a safe space for collaboration, exploration, and practicing new tools and skills in a protected setting.
Some of the key benefits of relational therapy include:
Relational therapy encourages clients to explore experiences, social frameworks, and unconscious thoughts to determine how they have affected the relational self. Rooted in psychodynamic and psychoanalytic theories, this modality emphasizes the value of the client-therapist relationship. Common issues targeted with relational therapy include:
Relational therapy is an effective, evidence-based treatment modality that helps partners face the challenges in relationships, such as low self-worth, communication problems, and past experiences and hurts. By learning to shift unhealthy patterns, partners can let go of their old ways of relating and encounter their significant other in the present through new eyes. Socio-cultural identities are explored to examine how issues of race, economic status, sexual orientation, or culture may be affecting the formation of a sustainable bond.
Based in New Orleans, Alex Szablya typically charges $300 per session for couples. Pricing can vary, however, depending on your goals, the frequency of your appointments, and the specific modalities Alex employs. During your introductory consultation, you will learn more about Alex’s unique and proven approach to couples therapy, along with details about pricing and logistics.
Alex Szablya supports couples seeking to explore greater levels of trust, communication, bonding, and togetherness in their relationship. She relies on data-driven therapeutic methods in Marathon Intensives and weekly sessions, helping clients learn more about developing goodwill, seeing their loved one’s viewpoint as valid, and incorporating their significant other’s love language on a daily basis. Alex works with established methods such as Relational Therapy, Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), and the Gottman Method, choosing the best approach based on your unique situation.
Alex’s Marathon Intensives are two-day formats in which partners delve deeply into their issues, strengthening the foundation and framework of their bond. Through this in-depth exploration, partners are restored, reunited, and realigned more rapidly than is usually possible in weekly sessions.
Individuals from all over the globe seek out Alex Szablya, including those from Asia, Europe, Africa, Australia, and North America. She works with clients in sectors such as technology, academia, the arts, and finance, providing invaluable insights that help the relationship get back on track. Marathons are offered in New Orleans, Seattle, New York, Boston, and Los Angeles.
Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist
To get started with relational therapy in New Orleans and beyond, please reach out today to Alex Szablya’s friendly, knowledgeable team to book an informative and empowering introductory session.
Alex Szablya is an experienced and insightful couples therapist who helps partners increase harmony within their relationship so that love can blossom and thrive. Call today to embark on a journey to renewed intimacy, connection, trust, and closeness with your significant other.