Imago Clinical Training
Writing for clinicians on the Imago clinical pathway.
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Writing for psychologists, social workers, counsellors, and clinically trained relationship practitioners.
Paradigm
This Is Not an Alternative. It Is a Paradigm Shift.The Relational Paradigm does not offer a better technique for the same worldview. It replaces the worldview itself — a direct challenge to the assumptions most couples therapy still operates on.
Metatheory
Connecting is Being — An Ontology for Imago Relationship TherapyIn Imago, connecting is not something we do. It is what we are — an ontological claim about reality, the self, and the Space-Between.
Clinical Insights
When the first session becomes another argumentBeginning Imago therapy by changing the interaction already taking shape in the room
Clinical Insights
Insight can coexist with an unchanged relationshipMoving from a shared explanation of distress to a different experience of contact
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Pursuit and withdrawal are movements between peopleFormulating escalating contact and retreat without fixing either partner into a type
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A quiet room is not yet a safe relationshipAssessing safety through participation and response rather than the absence of visible conflict
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Mirroring changes who gets to define the experienceUnderstanding the clinical work inside a seemingly simple reflection
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Developmental work must reach the partnerBringing earlier relational experience into a present encounter that can be different
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An apology becomes repair through what happens nextWorking with relational injury while preserving accountability and the injured partner’s choice
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A request becomes therapeutic when it can be freely receivedUsing Behaviour Change Requests to connect understanding with concrete relational action
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Intimacy needs room for longing and refusalFacilitating conversations about desire without turning connection into an obligation
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The work continues in the exchanges nobody supervisesTranslating the experience of dialogue into daily appreciation care and repair