As a clinical psychologist, Dr. Crawford has the highest level of training and experience! Dr. Crawford has over 15-years of working with couples. Dr. Crawford has conducted research on the efficacy of, Hope Focused Couples Counseling approach, which is a highly empirically supported approach to restoring marital joy, communication, conflict resolution, and emotional connection! Dr. Crawford is the foremost innovator of applying the highly sought out Restoring-Self-Cohesion approach with couples.
Dr. Crawford provides an initial assessment and then separates the couple into strategic individual sessions to help each partner work on resolving the unconscious projections, enactments, and unconscious wounds and dynamics that undermine the couples' heart connection. She then rejoins the couple for joint sessions to help the couple learn how to adaptively engage in communication and conflict resolution that foster intimacy. The maintenance phase of couples therapy is Dr. Crawford's favorite as she helps the couple identify their individual and couple strengths to learn how to support and champion one another toward life purpose and passion. Many couples lose momentum because of a lack of vision. Dr. Crawford helps the couple remove complacency by identifying their couple vision and larger life purpose!
