Marriage counseling that Heals in Discovery Bay, CA. Restore Your Relationship.

I provide premarital counseling to couples planning to get married to help ensure that their marriage starts on a healthy foundation. I provide marriage counseling to couples who are struggling with day-to-day challenges as well as life changing events.

Sylvia has pioneered therapeutic approaches to communication skills with families & couples. She facilitates seminars on marriage. She is certified in Prepare/Enrich. Sylvia also has significant experience working with adolescents and children including victims of crime

I specialize in 'all things relationship:' especially marriages, using cognitive, psychodynamic, and trauma resolution models.

I Show Couple How To: *Move From Rejected To More Connected *Reduce Criticism & Increase Acceptance & Validation *Feel More Empowered, Calm & In Control *Decrease Fear & Increase Trust & Safety *Reduce Fighting & Arguing & Increase Understanding, Kindness & Compass

Marriage can be a wonderfully bonding experience or difficult when impasses develop. I utilized proven techniques to take communication to a deeper level that re-connects hearts and restores the marital relationship.

Though we are not licensed marriage counselors, Grey Matters International, Inc. provides cutting edge brain optimization and rebalancing technology to better align the minds of partners to reduce conflict, increase hope---for the brain has the final word on change.

My couples work is grounded in psychodynamic and attachment-based methods: we identify the emotional cycle driving your conflict and change it at its source. This is what produces durable improvement in trust, communication, and intimacy. Online sessions available.

My work is dedicated to assisting you with developing positive, trusting communication/interaction skills. I will assist you in understanding and resolving emotional conflicts within you and as a couple and as a family.

Rooted in attachment, neurobiology, and client-centered work, I use experiential methods to help those who feel disconnected from others and themselves find the link playfully back to being in relationship. I specialize in grief, trauma, LGBT folks, and creatives.