Deepen
A metro-Atlanta Workshop for Couples
The Hold Me Tight® Experience
This workshop is based on the book, Hold Me Tight®, by Dr. Sue Johnson, which is now in its 16th year of publication and has sold over a million copies world-wide. Created for couples struggling with communication, intimacy and security, Hold Me Tight® is a two-day intensive Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) workshop held in metro-Atlanta to help couples heal broken bonds, and rekindle the spark that brought them together. Hold Me Tight® will help you and your partner feel safe, secure and connected by enabling you to:
Understand the real reasons you get into struggles over and over.
Change patterns that leave you frustrated, angry and hurting.
Engage in conversations keeping your love alive and secure.
(13 Core Hours of Continuing Education Credit approved by GMFT, 13 Related hours available for LCSWs and LPCs)
HOld Me Tight® , a metro-Atlanta workshop for couples
A Brief Overview
For over 25 years, Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) has been used to expand and reorganize key emotional responses within relationships, create a shift and initiate new cycles in partner interaction, and foster the creation of a secure bond between partners. Research studies find that 70-75% of couples who participate in Emotionally Focused Therapy move from distress to recovery and approximately 90% show significant improvement.
Hold Me Tight® weekends, a metro-Atlanta workshop for couples, can help you and your partner deepen your connection and enjoy more emotional closeness.
Many couples wonder if this relationship will help them with their specific situation.
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Meet Your Hosts
Hold Me Tight® Facilitators
Hold Me Tight® weekends are based on a program and model of Emotionally Focused Therapy developed by Susan Johnson, PhD. Meet your workshop facilitators: Bhavana Goel, LPC and Hannah Hawkins Esther, LMSW
Bhavana Goel, LPC
Having earned her master’s degree from Kings College London and from the University of South Florida, Bhavana Goel is trained and educated in the U.S., U.K. and India. In addition to her fluency in English, she speaks Urdu and Hindi.
Her international work experience and multicultural competency allow Dr. Goel to hear her clients’ stories without judgment. Such insights are also essential in relation-ship work, such as with couples and family groups. Collaborating with individuals as pillars of strength, she has a passion for helping them tackle life’s major challenges and ongoing frustrations.
Working together, We Honor Your Story
I am passionate about working with challenges like emotional and social difficulties, cultural issues, immigrant families, grief, life transitions and relationship challenges. I specialize working with individuals, couples and families rooted in extended family systems. I would be honored to be part of your journey and together we can explore the solutions and skills that will help in your inner growth and well-being. It is my sincere belief that you have your own story, which truly is yours and only yours, and I am your keen listener.
Bhavana Goel, LPC
www.pineriverpsychotherapy.com/bgoel/
404-325-8512, ext.1712
bgoelapc@gmail.com
Hannah Hawkins Esther, lmsw
Hannah has been working as a psychotherapist in private practice for two decades. She has training in several therapy modalities including Internal Family systems, and Emotion Focused therapy. she has also worked as a therapist in an inpatient treatment setting serving adults and adolescents. She received her Masters degree in Social Work from the University of Georgia and maintains a clinical license in good standing.
In addition to working as a psychotherapist, she is a certified teacher of Mindful Self-Compassion. She meditates and practices yoga and enjoys hiking. I believe all of us have the capability to develop our inner strengths, learn more about our unhelpful patterns, have meaningful relationships and create the life we want to live. I work to act as a resource as you determine what needs to heal or change and makes wholesome sense for you. Life's hardships, problematic ways of coping, or emotional pain do not necessarily mean something is broken (though it might feel that way). Discovering self sustaining ways of relating to ourselves, others, and our lives can bring in more satisfaction and happiness.
Hannah Hawkins- Esther, LMSW
https://pineriverpsychotherapy.com/hannah-hawkins/
404-325-8512 EXT-1736
hannah@hhe-therapy.com
Connection
Location
The House Next Door
Join us for Hold Me Tight®, a metro-Atlanta workshop for couples at The House Next Door at The Link Counseling Center. The address is 348 Mount Vernon Highway, Dunwoody, Georgia 30328. The Link Counseling Center is easily accessible from GA-400 and I-285.
For our out-of-town guests
Nearby Hotels
EMBASSY SUITES ATLANTA PERIMETER CENTER
1030 Crown Pointe Parkway, Atlanta, GA 30338
1-800-230-4134
HOLIDAY INN EXPRESS & SUITES
765 Hammond Drive, Sandy Springs, GA 30328-6118
1-877-859-5095
“The key to restoring connection is, first, interrupting and dismantling these destructive sequences and then actively constructing a more emotionally open and receptive way of interacting, one in which partners feel safe confiding their hidden fears and longings.”
