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Workshop for Couples: Hold Me Tight: seven conversations for a lifetime of love




Workshop for Couples


Hold Me Tight:
Seven Conversations for a Lifetime of Love


Sustain the closeness,connection and intimacy you cherish.

 Hold Me Tight is a 16-hour educational program based

on the empirically proven Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) approach to helping

couples foster secure and lasting bonds. The outstanding success rate of EFT has

been heralded in scientific journals, the New York Times and Time magazine. The

Hold Me Tight workshop breaks EFT down into seven transforming conversations. You

will learn how to:

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Create lasting trust and intimacy
  • Make sense of your own emotions
  • Learn about your partners inner

    world
  • Learn how to forgive injuries that

    can destroy trust and safety
  • Deepen your romantic/sexual

    connection
  • Prevent the cycles of

    disconnection that take love apart




In addition to practice with your partner and reading the text, you will see video

examples of how other real couples learned 
and create a lifetime of love.


When:   October

18, 5 to 9 pm, October 19, 10 to 5 pm, November 2, 10 to 5 pm                  

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Where:  Mount
Vernon Family
Therapy, 1707 Belle View Blvd.,
Alexandria, VA
22307


Who:     Couples
who want to learn how to keep love alive.



Fee:        $560 per couple; includes materials, facilitator instruction,

DVD presentations, couple exercises (in private, not in front of the group).


Pre-marital
add-on: Pre-marital
survey, and guided HMT conversation about one issue,
One additional evening, $70 per couple



Facilitators: Kris Rosenthal, LPC is the owner of

Mt. Vernon Family Therapy Associates and has 30 years’ experience; Linda

Padgett, LMFT has specialized in working with couples for seven years. Both

have advanced training in EFT.


To
register, call Kris at 703-768-6240. The class will include up to eight

couples. For more information, visit: www.holdmetight.net.
Love is everything it’s cracked up to be…  It really is worth fighting for, being brave
for. And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, your risk will be even
greater. — Erica Jong
















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