Jerry Sander, LCSW & Kristy Gaisford, LCSW

LoveWork: Skills for a Relational Life

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Join therapists Jerry Sander & Kristy Gaisford as we look at both the hard truths, and joys, that accompany intimate relationships. Our perspective is personal, practical and based on experience: we've both been married, divorced, and married again after finding great partners for our second marriages. (Both of us had four children apiece in our first marriages; Kristy has four step-children in her second one). Both of us maintain relationally-focused private therapy practices, focusing on couples and individuals. ) We are both certified in Terry Real's Relational Life Therapy and are regular,...

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Jerry Sander, LCSW & Kristy Gaisford, LCSW

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When Is A Relationship Over? 01.07.2021 41:12

Send us Fan Mail Kristy & Jerry discuss those pivotal, painful questions that come when you look, with clarity, at what you've got going on your relationship, right now, today. Are there any signs it is getting better? Do I still even want it to? Do we have too many years of bad habits, neglect and poor communication? Would we be better off calling it quits and starting off with new peopl...

Dancing In The Dark 14.06.2021 35:41

Send us Fan Mail Jerry and Kristy discuss the dance(s) couples do with little awareness, almost on auto-pilot, leading to general dissatisfaction for both. Alternatives are considered.

Acting 31.05.2021 32:10

Send us Fan Mail Kristy & Jerry discuss the art of acting-in-relationships, and the toll this takes. Careful distinction is made between resisting the temptation to overshare and vent (in boundaryless fashion) and the absolute fakery that gets couples in big trouble.

Relationship Myths 08.05.2021 19:58

Send us Fan Mail Kristy and Jerry dissect a few of the relationship myths we grew up believing and consider some healthier alternatives. For more info re: the Boot Camps we offer, and our services in general, please visit us at: https://loveworkrelationships.com/

Mind Reading & Faulty Radar 22.04.2021 34:53

Send us Fan Mail Kristy and Jerry discuss a few of the most traditional destined-to-fail strategies couples often employ and suggest some different approaches.

Great Expectations 19.04.2021 28:06

Send us Fan Mail In which the two of us consider the beautiful beginning phase of relationships and the rose-colored glasses that usually accompany it. Do you remember walking with your feet several inches off the ground? Or were your early days as a couple much more fraught, and cautious, than that? But still....the deliciousness that all-too-often gets buried beneath things that creep in later w...