Are you fighting all the time? Wondering what to do after infidelity and learning about an affair? Wanting professional help in couples therapy in Satellite Beach, Florida to heal after cheating? Did you grow up with emotionally abusive, highly critical, emotionally chaotic, narcissistic mother or emotionally avoidant, alcoholic father? Needing a marriage therapist who has extensive training in PTSD and how trauma affects sex and romantic relationships? Looking for a sex positive place to reignite passion and sexual desire in your long-term relationship? Struggling with sexual rejection and your partner pulling away from your touch or affection? Wishing your sex life was vibrant, frequent, satisfying, and enjoyable? Needing help fixing communication in your marriage? At Wisdom Within Counseling, our couples therapists specialize in helping distant couples rebuild physical intimacy, emotional safety, and rebuild trust after betrayal.
Do your conversations always end in fights, silence, or blame?
If you’re saying things like:
- “We never talk without arguing.”
- “They shut down every time I bring something up.”
- “It feels like we speak different languages…”
You Can Heal and Reconnect.
Co-Create a Marriage That Feels Safe and Passionate Again Through Marriage Counseling Specialized For Trauma, PTSD and C-PTSD.
Are you and your partner fighting all the time?
Do you feel like you’re emotionally miles apart, even though you live under the same roof? Maybe you just discovered an affair, or you’re still hurting from infidelity that shook your entire relationship. You’re not alone.
At Wisdom Within Counseling, we specialize in couples therapy in Satellite Beach, Florida, helping partners reconnect, rebuild trust, and bring emotional and physical intimacy back into their relationship. Whether you’re struggling with unresolved resentment, emotional distance, or the aftermath of betrayal, we offer a safe, shame-free space for you and your partner to heal and grow—together.
Whether you’re recovering from an affair, struggling with emotional distance, or trying to repair years of miscommunication or lack of sex, couples therapy in Satellite Beach, Florida with Wisdom Within Counseling can help.
Our marriage therapists in Melbourne Beach, Florida help you turn toward each other again.
We help you feel wanted, desired, and emotionally connected again.
At Wisdom Within Counseling along the Space Coast of Florida, our couples therapy specialists help you rediscover the facets of emotional and sexual intimacy that makes your relationship thrive.
When Childhood Trauma With Your Parents Is Ruining Your Marriage: How Trauma-Informed Couples Therapy in Melbourne Beach, FL Can Help
If you grew up with a narcissistic, emotionally unstable, highly critical, or guilt-tripping mother or father, it’s likely you didn’t feel safe to be yourself.
Maybe your parent expected perfection, gave love only when you performed, or made everything about their emotions while ignoring yours.
Perhaps you were blamed for things that weren’t your fault, made to feel guilty for having needs, or told you were “too sensitive” whenever you cried. Even now, you might find yourself hearing their voice in your head, especially in moments of conflict in your relationship.
Unfortunately, you both carry emotional trauma into your adult relationship and marriage. As a result, you may find yourself caught in painful, repetitive cycles of conflict, fighting, or emotional disconnection. Having narcissistic, emotionally abusive parts wrecks your self-worth and self-esteem.
You question your worth, due to the hurt. As a child, your emotionally unstable parents were chaotic. One moment, they were kind, but the next, they were terrifying. Rage, explosive anger, and unstable feelings became the normal.
Childhood trauma from having narcissistic, emotionally abusive parents deeply impacts your marriage, attachment style, and fight patterns.
You may become overly reactive, shut down to protect yourself, or feel overwhelmed when your partner expresses frustration. Your spouse shouts, calls you names, or uses the silent treatment.
You might constantly seek validation but feel like it’s never enough. Or you may feel like you can’t ever say what you really feel—because you learned early on that your emotions weren’t safe. Katie Ziskind specializes in complex post-traumatic stress disorder in the context of marriage counseling.
This is where Katie Ziskind, a trauma-informed marriage therapist in Melbourne Beach, Florida, can help you begin healing, both individually and as a couple.
How Does Childhood Trauma Create Conflict in Your Relationship?
When you grow up in a household where love was conditional, emotions were weaponized, or affection came with manipulation, your nervous system stays on high alert. You may unconsciously recreate those dynamics in your marriage—not because you want to fight, but because your body and brain are wired to anticipate abandonment, criticism, or rejection.
You may:
- Feel emotionally flooded and lash out or shut down.
- Over-apologize or people-please to keep the peace.
- Take everything personally—even neutral feedback.
- Feel afraid of being wrong or not good enough.
- Assume your partner’s upset is your fault.
- Use anger or withdrawal to self-protect.
When your partner does something triggering—even unintentionally—it can feel like you’re reliving childhood pain all over again. And that’s because, in a way, you are. Unhealed trauma often shows up as resentment, overreaction, or conflict avoidance in marriage.
Couples therapy for trauma and PTSD in Satellite Beach, Florida with Katie Ziskind supports you in building a secure attachment after having a narcissistic, emotionally abusive mother or father
Wondering How Having Narcissistic Parents Impacts Your Marriage?
Couples Therapy in Satellite Beach, Florida Helps You See This Connection
If your marriage feels stuck in a loop of arguments, cold silences, and emotional distance, you may be dealing with more than just surface-level relationship struggles.
Maybe you’ve noticed your fights keep escalating, or you find yourself shutting down for days afterward. What many couples don’t realize is that the root of their relational distress often begins with their childhood — especially if you had a narcissistic, emotionally abusive, or guilt-tripping parent.
At Wisdom Within Counseling, our trauma-informed approach to couples therapy in Satellite Beach, Florida helps you uncover these patterns so you can finally break free from them.
If you had a narcissistic mother or father, you likely grew up walking on eggshells.
As a child, you may have felt constantly judged, blamed, or made to feel like your emotions were too much. You may have been gaslit when you tried to express yourself, or manipulated with guilt whenever you needed boundaries. These kinds of emotional wounds don’t disappear when you grow up or marry. Rather, they sneak into your adult relationships and shape how you connect, argue, and love.
You may notice you become extremely reactive during disagreements, even over small issues. That’s because your nervous system is still wired to expect criticism, shame, or abandonment.
As well, you may find yourself yelling, withdrawing, or going numb. You pull away not because you don’t love your partner, but because a younger part of you is terrified of being rejected or made to feel “not enough.”
In couples therapy in Satellite Beach, Florida, you’ll begin to see how your childhood pain is battling with your spouse’s childhood pain.
From there, in couples therapy for trauma and PTSD in Satellite Beach, Florida, you can co-create a more loving, safe, and playful relationship pattern.
One of the most common cycles we see in couples is the “blame-then-shutdown” pattern.
One partner gets triggered and lashes out, while the other retreats into silence. You might not even realize you’re re-enacting the emotional neglect and invalidation you experienced from your parents. But over time, this cycle creates a deep emotional chasm between you and your partner — one filled with resentment, disconnection, and loneliness.
Did you grow up hypervigilant with a highly anxious parent?
If your parent constantly guilted you, you may now feel overly responsible for your partner’s feelings — or expect them to read your mind and anticipate your needs. You may struggle to express yourself authentically out of fear of causing conflict.
Or, you might constantly feel like you’re “failing” in your relationship, even when you’re doing your best. These unconscious beliefs, born in childhood, play a huge role in how you handle marital stress.
In couples therapy in Satellite Beach, Florida, trauma-informed therapist Katie Ziskind helps you identify these invisible wounds and the protective strategies you’ve built around them.
Together, you and your partner will learn how to recognize when old triggers are taking over and how to respond to each other with empathy rather than reactivity. This process creates a safe space where healing, emotional vulnerability, and intimacy can begin to grow.
You learned to survive in your childhood with a narcissistic mother or father by pleasing, defending, or emotionally detaching.
But, those survival patterns can sabotage that you and your spouse developed in childhood your marriage today.
The good news is: once you become aware of these patterns, you can begin to change them. And, couples therapy for trauma and PTSD in Satellite Beach, Florida teaches you how to work together as a team to heal trauma.
Katie Ziskind guides you through this process gently, helping you make sense of your reactions, speak your truth, and connect with your partner in a more secure and loving way.
Many couples are afraid to face their deeper issues because it feels overwhelming or painful. But staying stuck in the same fighting-silent treatment cycle is even more damaging.
Did you narcissistic parent say things like?
“If you just did it my way, you wouldn’t fail.”
“You’re not trying hard enough, and you’re lazy.”
“Stop crying, you’re being dramatic and you shouldn’t be so sensitive.”
“You have to be the best or perfect, or don’t bother.”
“Don’t eat that. You need to lose weight if you want people to like you.”
“You always have to be the victim, don’t you?”
“Why can’t you be more like your brother/sister?”
“No one else would ever put up with you.”
“You’re so selfish for thinking about yourself.”
These hurtful, highly critical, and guilt-tripping statements are emotionally abusive.
At Wisdom Within Counseling, you’ll learn to build emotional safety, communicate effectively, and develop the intimacy that was never modeled for you in childhood.
In marriage therapy for trauma and PTSD in Satellite Beach, Florida, you can create a new future and heal from childhood trauma together.
Marriage therapy with Katie Ziskind, trauma specialist, is available via secure telehealth sessions. So, you can begin this healing process from your home. Start PTSD and trauma specialized couples therapy in Satellite Beach, Florida today.
You deserve a marriage that feels calm, connected, and emotionally safe — even if you never had that modeled for you growing up. Let Wisdom Within Counseling help you untangle the past and rediscover the emotional and physical closeness your relationship needs to thrive. It’s time to stop surviving and start truly connecting.
How Does Trauma-Informed Satellite Beach, Florida Marriage Counseling with Katie Ziskind Improve Your Bond?
At Wisdom Within Counseling in Melbourne Beach, FL, Katie Ziskind specializes in helping individuals and couples heal the root of their emotional wounds so you can build a truly connected, emotionally safe partnership.
Katie Ziskind understands that the conflicts in your marriage aren’t just about what happened yesterday.
Your marriage disconnection currently is often about what happened 10, 20, even 30 years ago.
She gently helps you explore how your childhood shaped your emotional responses, self-worth, communication style, and relationship patterns.
At Wisdom Within Counseling in Melbourne Beach, FL, she’ll help you uncover the younger parts of you that still feel scared, unloved, or not good enough.
And, she’ll show you how to bring comfort and healing to those parts of yourself instead of pushing your partner away. Before couples therapy, partners often don’t realize they are being harsh, critical, demanding, and snappy.
These negative methods of communication cause a receiving partner to feel hurt, unappreciated, used, betrayed, alone, and even taken for granted.
Through sessions with Katie Ziskind, in marriage therapy, you can gain awareness of negative communication patterns.
These patterns often have roots in anxiety and childhood trauma. Through marriage therapy with trauma specialist, Katie Ziskind, you can feel positive about you marriage and transform these into loving, gentle communication.
In couples therapy sessions in Melbourne, Florida, Katie Ziskind guides you and your partner to:
- Slow down arguments and recognize your trauma triggers in real time.
- Learn how to emotionally regulate when you’re upset or overwhelmed.
- Practice vulnerable conversations where both of you feel safe and heard.
- Replace blame and criticism with curiosity, empathy, and connection.
- Rebuild trust, emotional intimacy, and mutual support.
You’ll learn that your emotional reactions aren’t because you’re “too much” or “too sensitive”—they’re actually survival strategies you developed to stay safe in a chaotic, unstable childhood.
And once you understand that, you can start to respond to your partner with compassion instead of reactivity.
You Don’t Have to Keep Repeating the Same Pain
You may love your partner deeply—but if you never learned how to feel safe being emotionally vulnerable, how could you possibly know how to build lasting intimacy?
The good news is, healing is absolutely possible.
With the right support, you can rewrite the script. You can stop walking on eggshells. From working with trauma specialist, Katie Ziskind, you can learn how to speak your truth without fear of being punished or abandoned. And, from marriage counseling, you can repair old wounds, break the cycle of emotional chaos, and create a marriage that feels like a safe, loving home for both of you.
Katie Ziskind, couples therapist who specializes in trauma and PTSD in Satellite Beach, Florida, is here to help you do just that.
At Wisdom Within Counseling, all sessions are available via secure telehealth, so you can work on your marriage from the comfort of your home.
Katie Ziskind brings warmth, deep understanding, and years of experience helping individuals and couples heal from narcissistic abuse, childhood emotional trauma, and high-conflict relationships.
Couples Therapy For Trauma and PTSD in Satellite Beach, Florida Provides You With Skills For Long-Lasting Love
Ready to stop the fighting and finally feel emotionally safe in your relationship?
Book a telehealth marriage therapy session in Melbourne Beach, FL with Katie Ziskind today.
How Does Having a Narcissistic Parent Lead to High Conflict Fights, Sexual Frustration, Affairs, and Emotional Disconnection in Your Marriage?
If you’re reading this, you’re probably exhausted from the same fights over and over. You might feel emotionally alone, even when your partner is right beside you.
Maybe you’re frustrated because sex feels forced or disconnected—or it’s not happening at all. And deep down, you may be wondering: Why does this keep happening?
If you grew up with a narcissistic parent—someone who criticized you constantly, made you feel like you were never enough, or guilt-tripped you for your emotions—then your nervous system is wired for survival, not intimacy.
As a child, you had to be perfect just to feel safe. You learned to walk on eggshells, hide your true feelings, and prioritize others’ needs over your own. You may have been forced to be the “strong one,” the achiever, the rescuer, or the emotional caretaker in your family.
Now, in your adult relationship, those same survival strategies are showing up.
You might shut down during arguments or become explosive. To add, you may avoid emotional vulnerability because it feels unsafe. You may numb out with alcohol, porn, masturbation, drugs, or overworking—anything to escape the heavy, unspoken pain. And, you may even find yourself pulling away sexually or emotionally, or having affairs to try to feel something again. These aren’t signs you’re broken—they’re signs you’ve been trying to survive deep emotional wounds that were never your fault.
When two people in a relationship both carry unhealed childhood trauma, especially from narcissistic, emotionally neglectful parents, it creates a perfect storm of high conflict, emotional disconnection, and shame. You might find yourselves triggered by each other’s tone of voice or facial expression. You might feel unseen or rejected, even if your partner says they care. That’s because your inner child still fears being abandoned, criticized, or not being “good enough.”
In couples therapy for trauma and PTSD in Satellite Beach with Katie Ziskind, you’ll learn how to break these painful patterns and finally feel emotionally safe with each other.
Katie Ziskind is a grief and trauma specialist who understands how deep childhood wounds show up in your marriage. Therapy is about more than just fixing communication—it’s about understanding why you react the way you do, where your fears come from, and how to heal together, not against each other.
You’ll learn how to regulate your nervous systems, how to notice when your partner is triggered, and how to respond with compassion instead of defensiveness.
And, you’ll explore your numbing behaviors—whether it’s porn addiction, alcohol, compulsive sex, or emotional withdrawal—and learn how to replace them with emotional closeness and real connection. You’ll learn how to talk about sex without shame, how to build emotional foreplay, and how to rekindle physical intimacy in a way that feels safe and connected. Sex can become playful again.
Katie Ziskind, trauma specialist and marriage therapist in Florida, brings a deeply holistic approach to couples therapy.
You won’t just talk—you’ll move, breathe, and reconnect through somatic yoga therapy, meditation, expressive arts, and emotional healing practices. These tools help you go beyond the surface, so you can create true, lasting change in your marriage. You’ll be supported every step of the way as you learn how to show up for each other, not just as partners, but as healing allies.
This work isn’t about blaming your parents. It’s about understanding the blueprint they gave you—and choosing to rewrite it.
Your marriage doesn’t have to be a battleground. It can become a sanctuary. You don’t have to keep living in shutdown, addiction, avoidance, or fear. You can learn to feel your feelings, express your needs, and rebuild a deeply connected, passionate relationship rooted in emotional safety and trust.
If you’re ready to understand each other on a deeper level, stop the pain cycles, and build emotional and sexual intimacy that feels secure, couples therapy in Satellite Beach with Katie Ziskind can help. This is your chance to create the relationship you’ve always needed—one filled with love, safety, connection, and healing.
Couples therapy for trauma and PTSD in Satellite Beach, Florida helps you rebuild your marriage
If your marriage feels stuck in cycles of disconnection, fighting, or emotional shutdown, you’re not alone. You find yourself walking on eggshells.
Maybe every little disagreement turns into a full-blown argument.
Or maybe there’s a deep silence between you, where affection, sex, and intimacy used to live.
Marriage therapy for trauma and PTSD in Satellite Beach, Florida supports you and your partner in building a stronger, more loving bond after childhood abuse
At Wisdom Within Counseling, our approach to couples therapy in Satellite Beach, Florida goes deeper than just surface-level communication fixes — because your relationship struggles often begin long before the relationship ever did.
In many long-term relationships, it’s not just the adult version of you sitting in the room during a fight — it’s the younger parts of you, too. But, the part of you that felt criticized as a child by your narcissistic, super critical mother are there too. The part of you that had to grow up too fast – because your father was an alcoholic and extremely avoidant emotionally. And, in your marriage conflicts, the part of you that still wonders if you’re lovable or enough is there. This part of you that craves love, attention, closeness, security, and appreciation gets triggered, leading to escalating fights.
These wounded parts can get triggered during even the smallest moments in your relationship. Without realizing it, you might be reacting from old pain in fights, not present reality.
At Wisdom Within Counseling in Melbourne Beach, FL, Katie Ziskind helps you slow down and gently explore where these emotional reactions come from.
In your couples therapy sessions, you’ll begin to uncover how unresolved childhood experiences—like being ignored, controlled, invalidated, or emotionally neglected—are still showing up in your marriage today.
When you’re reacting from a wounded place, it’s easy to pull away, shut down, or lash out at your partner — even if you love them deeply.
You may not have words for the pain you’re carrying, but your nervous system remembers. The fear of abandonment. To add, the guilt of being “too much.” The belief that you’re not worthy of affection unless you’re perfect.
These unconscious patterns shape how you connect, how you argue, and how you express love.
Couples therapy with Katie Ziskind helps you understand the emotional blueprint you’re bringing into your marriage — and how to rewire it with compassion.
If your fights always follow the same pattern, or your sex life has faded, or you feel more like roommates than lovers, it may be time to turn toward the root of what’s really going on.
In PTSD and trauma specialized couples therapy in Satellite Beach, Florida, you’ll learn how your past traumas are hijacking your present.
You’ll be supported in identifying your triggers, soothing your younger parts, and creating a safe emotional space between you and your partner again.
You’ll start to see how the old survival strategies — like shutting down, people-pleasing, or stonewalling — are no longer helping. With Katie Ziskind’s guidance, you’ll learn healthier ways to self-soothe, communicate, and reconnect.
As you begin to meet the younger parts of yourself with kindness, you’ll also learn how to show up differently for your partner. And, in couples therapy for trauma and PTSD in Satellite Beach, Florida, you can learn how to feel safe letting them show up for you.
At Wisdom Within Counseling in Satellite Beach, Florida, we know that sexual disconnection, infidelity, emotional distance, and constant bickering are not just “relationship issues.”
They’re often signs of unresolved pain beneath the surface.
That’s why Katie Ziskind blends trauma-informed care with emotionally focused couples therapy. It’s not just about solving a fight. Couples therapy for trauma and PTSD in Satellite Beach, Florida is about healing the scared, hurt, or disconnected parts of you that want to love and be loved.
As you and your partner work together in sessions, you’ll begin to co-create a new kind of relationship.
You get to build a marriage that’s built on emotional safety, mutual vulnerability, and the willingness to grow together.
Whether you’re recovering from betrayal, longing to restore physical intimacy, or just desperate to stop the cycle of blame and defense, couples therapy for trauma and PTSD in Satellite Beach, Florida can be the lifeline your relationship needs.
Katie Ziskind offers online telehealth sessions, so you can begin this healing journey from the comfort of your own home. Take this first powerful step toward reconnection.
You deserve a relationship where you feel emotionally seen, sexually wanted, and deeply understood. You deserve to feel secure, valued, and safe — not just as an adult, but in the younger, hurt parts of you, too.
Let Wisdom Within Counseling in Melbourne, Florida help you uncover the root causes of your disconnection. And, you can rebuild the kind of relationship you’ve always longed for. Start couples therapy in Satellite Beach, Florida today.
Couples Therapy in Satellite Beach, Florida Is Your Safe Place To Rebuild Trust, Intimacy, and Communication with Wisdom Within Counseling
At Wisdom Within Counseling, we specialize in trauma-informed couples therapy in Satellite Beach, Florida, using approaches that help you build emotional safety, feel deeply connected again, and grow into secure attachment—no matter what you’ve been through. We make it easy to begin.
All of our couples therapy sessions in Satellite Beach, FL are available via telehealth, so you can get started from the comfort and privacy of your home. Book your telehealth couples therapy session today to start healing trauma and forming a strong emotional connection.
In Satellite Beach, Florida, Katie Ziskind, marriage therapist specializing in trauma, validates your inner child experience.
Hearing constant criticism from a narcissistic parent in childhood wires your brain and nervous system to expect rejection, shame, and disapproval—even when you’re not doing anything wrong.
As a child, your emotional safety depended on being “good,” perfect, quiet, or self-sacrificing, because showing feelings, making mistakes, or having needs often led to guilt trips, emotional withdrawal, or verbal attacks.
This childhood conditioning doesn’t disappear when you grow up—it simply goes underground and shows up in your adult relationships, especially in marriage.
When you’ve grown up constantly being told you were “too much,” “not enough,” or “a disappointment,” you internalize the belief that you’re fundamentally flawed, unworthy of love, or always one mistake away from being rejected.
So in marriage, even when your partner is trying to connect, give feedback, or express a need, your nervous system may interpret it as criticism or abandonment.
This is called rejection sensitivity—a hypersensitivity to even perceived disapproval or distance.
This sensitivity creates a shame cycle that can feel unbearable. For example, your partner might say, “I feel lonely,” or “I wish we were closer,” and instead of hearing a bid for connection, you hear, “You’re failing, you’re not good enough, you’re a bad partner.”
Instantly, you feel shame, panic, or defensiveness. You might withdraw, lash out, or shut down—anything to escape that deep sense of unworthiness. That shame feels so uncomfortable and overwhelming, you’ll do whatever you can to numb it.
That’s where numbing behaviors like alcoholism, porn addiction, masturbation addiction, overeating, affairs, or emotional withdrawal often begin.
These aren’t just random bad habits—they’re coping mechanisms for avoiding the pain of childhood rejection that gets re-triggered in marriage.
Do you drink alcohol to take the edge off, maybe a bit too much?
You drink to take the edge off the shame—that heavy, gnawing feeling that you’re not good enough, that you’re too much, or not lovable as you are. After a long day of trying to hold it all together, of hiding your feelings or pretending you’re fine, that first drink offers relief. It quiets the inner critic’s voice, softens the emotional sting, and makes it easier to numb the pain of old wounds that still echo from childhood.
For a little while, alcohol helps you feel like you can breathe. But over time, it becomes a crutch—masking the real emotions you need to process to feel close to your partner.
Drinking dulls not just your shame, but also your ability to be fully present and emotionally intimate. And, before you know it, the very thing that helps you escape becomes the thing keeping you disconnected.
Using porn compulsively?
You scroll porn because it gives a sense of control and acceptance without emotional risk.
At night, you might find yourself scrolling through porn not because you’re overly sexual, but because it offers a temporary sense of control and acceptance without the emotional risk that real-life intimacy requires. After a day of feeling unseen, criticized, or emotionally overwhelmed, porn becomes a private escape—no one can reject you, hurt you, or make you feel not enough.
It’s predictable, numbs the stress and shame, and gives you a momentary high. But over time, this habit chips away at your emotional and sexual connection with your partner. Instead of turning toward them for closeness, comfort, or affection, you retreat inward, deepening the emotional distance in your relationship.
What began as a way to soothe yourself eventually becomes a barrier to the intimacy you actually crave.
Do you pull away or shut down?
You pull away emotionally or sexually because intimacy feels too vulnerable—like you’ll eventually be exposed and rejected again.
This creates high conflict fights in your marriage because your partner doesn’t see what’s going on underneath. They just see you getting defensive, shutting down, or escaping. They may feel abandoned or unloved, so they push harder, ask for more, or react with frustration.
That triggers even more rejection sensitivity in you, which fuels the shame cycle and escalates the conflict. It becomes a vicious loop of criticism, fear, misunderstanding, and disconnection.
Couples therapy for trauma and PTSD—especially with a trauma specialist like Katie Ziskind—helps you recognize this cycle. In Melbourne, beach Florida, you both can understand that trauma reactions aren’t flaws. Fight, flight, and freeze mechanisms are protective responses from a time when love felt conditional and unpredictable.
Marriage therapy at Wisdom Within Counseling in Melbourne Beach, Florida helps you learn how to regulate your nervous system, express vulnerability safely, and build emotional intimacy without fear.
From couples therapy for trauma and PTSD in Satellite Beach, Florida, you begin to learn you are safe. As your partner practices trauma sensitive tools and skills from marriage counseling, you can learn that your partner isn’t your narcissistic parent. Your spouse wants to hold you safely, they just need professional guidance too. From working with Katie Ziskind, you can learn to build a long-lasting marriage. You can learn to love each other more securely, and let go of fears of abandonment through couples therapy.
You’re no longer a scared child who has to earn love through perfection.
As well, you can begin to say, “I feel scared,” or “I worry you don’t love me,” instead of lashing out or withdrawing.
You build a marriage where it’s safe to be fully seen, flaws and all—without the fear of being emotionally destroyed.
When childhood has felt so unsafe and chaotic, in couples therapy for trauma and PTSD in Satellite Beach, Florida you can build safety as a team.
What Are Signs You or Your Partner May Have PTSD, or CPTSD From Childhood That Is Impacting Your Marriage?
Growing up with narcissistic parents can leave deep emotional scars that often manifest as Complex PTSD (CPTSD) in adulthood.
One of the most common signs is chronic shame and guilt—you may carry a deep belief that you’re inherently flawed or unworthy, a result of being blamed or belittled during childhood.
Alongside this is a persistent pattern of people-pleasing and difficulty setting boundaries. Because love and attention were often conditional, you may have learned to fawn, put others first, and avoid conflict at all costs.
Emotional flashbacks are another hallmark of CPTSD.
Unlike visual flashbacks, these involve sudden and overwhelming feelings of fear, shame, or helplessness, often triggered by subtle reminders of your past.
Fear of abandonment or rejection is also common, especially in relationships.
And, fights in your marriage trigger your spouse’s fear of abandonment. Fear of abandonment can stem from having a parent who used love as a weapon or emotionally withdrew when you didn’t meet their needs.
As a result, trusting others becomes extremely difficult.
Many adult children of narcissists live in a state of hypervigilance, always on edge, anticipating emotional attacks or sudden shifts in behavior.
The internalized voice of a narcissistic parent often becomes a harsh inner critic, leading to constant self-doubt and negative self-talk.
To survive emotional chaos, many children of narcissists learn to dissociate or emotionally numb themselves, which can carry over into adulthood as difficulty feeling emotions or connecting with others.
This can contribute to struggles in adult relationships, especially romantic ones. Healthy love may feel unfamiliar, and you might unconsciously gravitate toward partners who are emotionally unavailable or abusive, recreating the emotional dynamics you experienced growing up.
Lastly, CPTSD can cause deep identity confusion.
If you were never allowed to explore your true self, you may not know who you are apart from your roles or others’ expectations. Your sense of self may feel fragmented or entirely shaped by what others need from you. Together, these signs point to the lasting, complex impact of being raised by narcissistic parents—but healing is absolutely possible with awareness, support, and therapeutic work.
Emotional connection work in couples therapy in Satellite Beach, Florida – Learn to Communicate With Love, Not Anger
Poor communication is often at the root of every relationship struggle. You may feel like you’re stuck in a loop—every conversation turns into an argument, someone shuts down, and nothing ever gets resolved.
You might feel like you’re walking on eggshells or trying not to rock the boat. In couples therapy, we help you understand your communication patterns and practice new ways of expressing your needs without blame.
Our Melbourne Beach, FL marriage therapists guide you in how to validate each other’s emotions, stay grounded during hard conversations, and repair conflict more quickly so that it doesn’t build up into resentment.
You’ll learn how to turn toward each other in moments of tension, rather than pulling away. We specialize in relationship therapy in Melbourne Beach, Florida.
Infidelity recovery and betrayal recovery couples therapy in Satellite Beach, Florida
Infidelity is one of the most painful challenges a marriage can face. Whether it was a physical affair, emotional cheating, or betrayal through pornography or secrecy, it leaves deep emotional wounds that don’t just go away with time.
You don’t have to navigate this alone.
Our trauma-informed couples therapists in Satellite Beach, FL, understand how PTSD, betrayal trauma, and emotional disconnection affect your ability to feel safe, intimate, and connected.
Katie Ziskind is a trauma specialist and infidelity therapist in Florida. If infidelity has damaged your relationship, you may feel like the ground has crumbled beneath you. Whether it was an emotional affair, physical cheating, or compulsive pornography use, betrayal creates deep pain.
Our trauma-informed couples therapists understand how cheating disrupts the sense of safety in your marriage, and how PTSD and emotional trauma make it difficult to feel connected again.
Through our work together, we’ll gently guide you through the painful emotions of betrayal, help you understand your triggers, and teach you how to rebuild trust and intimacy with one another from the inside out. We focus on emotional honesty, slowing down the cycle of conflict, and helping each of you feel seen, validated, and supported.
Working with Katie Ziskind, a trauma specialist in marriage therapy, can completely transform the way you understand your spouse and rebuild your sexual connection.
If your partner is living with PTSD or Complex PTSD (CPTSD), you may feel confused, shut out, or rejected when they emotionally withdraw, dissociate, or shut down sexually.
This isn’t about you not being enough.
Really, it’s about trauma that hasn’t yet had the space to be safely explored or healed. That’s where Katie comes in.
Katie Ziskind helps you learn how trauma shows up in your relationship and in the bedroom. This way, you can recognize when your spouse is having a PTSD flashback. You don’t have ot blame yourself for that. And, then you can start understanding the deeper layers of what’s really going on.
Instead of repeating frustrating patterns or feeling disconnected, Katie Ziskind gives you tools to become emotionally present, responsive, and safe for your partner.
She’ll help you decode emotional flashbacks, recognize dissociation, and understand how childhood trauma can impact adult intimacy. You’ll learn how to move from confusion and frustration into compassion and connection.
Katie also helps you understand that emotional safety is the foundation of a satisfying sex life. If your partner’s nervous system doesn’t feel safe, their body will not be open to sexual connection—no matter how much they love you.
Through emotionally focused therapy and trauma-informed techniques, Katie Ziskind helps you and your partner rebuild that safety together.
You’ll learn how to become your spouse’s safe place, and how to co-regulate during emotional distress. And, you can learn how to develop emotional foreplay that opens the door to meaningful, passionate sexual intimacy.
Whether you’re dealing with childhood trauma, military PTSD, narcissistic abuse, or emotional abandonment wounds, working with Katie Ziskind gives your marriage a path forward.
You’ll walk away with a new understanding of your spouse’s trauma, more empathy, and a roadmap to rebuilding trust, emotional connection, and sexual closeness—together.
Sexless marriage therapy and sex positive couples therapy in Satellite Beach, Florida
Maybe your relationship has gone sexless over time. Or, there’s emotional distance, tension, or a fear of rejection that’s making it hard to be vulnerable. Maybe one or both of you has trauma that affects your relationship with sex.
At Wisdom Within Counseling, our couples therapists offer a sex-positive, shame-free space where we talk openly about:
- How trauma, stress, and anxiety impact desire
- How to create emotional safety before physical intimacy
- How to rebuild erotic connection after betrayal or neglect
- How to feel wanted and reconnected with your partner again
We’re trained to help couples reignite the flame—even if you’ve been distant for years.
At Wisdom Within Counseling in Melbourne Beach, FL, our marriage therapists specialize in working with couples who are feeling disconnected sexually.
If your relationship has become sexless—or if sex feels pressured, avoidant, or distant—we’re here to help.
Many long-term couples lose touch with physical intimacy because of stress, parenting, resentment, or unresolved trauma. Others struggle with mismatched libidos or emotional disconnection that makes it hard to be vulnerable. Our sex-positive, shame-free approach creates a safe space where we talk openly about how anxiety, trauma, rejection sensitivity, and emotional pain show up in the bedroom. We’ll help you reconnect with your body, understand your partner’s needs, and build back the desire and erotic energy that’s been missing for years.
Trauma-informed marriage counseling and PTSD couples therapy in Satellite Beach, Florida
Many couples don’t realize how much trauma from childhood or past relationships shapes their current marriage. If you or your partner grew up with emotionally unavailable, critical, or narcissistic parents, you may carry protective patterns like shutting down, lashing out, or fearing rejection. These trauma responses can block emotional closeness and physical intimacy.
Trauma-Informed Marriage Counseling That Gets Your Story
Most people don’t realize how much childhood trauma, emotional neglect, or past toxic relationships affect how they show up in their marriage today.
If you or your partner has a history of:
- Narcissistic, emotionally abusive or critical parenting
- Emotional invalidation
- Sexual abuse or trauma
- PTSD or complex trauma
…you may find it hard to be emotionally present or sexually vulnerable in your relationship now.
Our couples therapy in Satellite Beach, Florida is deeply rooted in understanding how trauma impacts connection—and how to heal it together.
We’ll help you both feel seen, emotionally safe, and supported, so sex, intimacy and closeness feel possible again.
You deserve a relationship where you feel safe, emotionally held, and passionately desired. Whether you’re dealing with the pain of betrayal, feeling like roommates, or longing to restore the closeness you once had, couples therapy in Satellite Beach, Florida at Wisdom Within Counseling can help.
Our therapists are here to support you in learning how to turn toward each other again—to find your way back to love, honesty, connection, and intimacy.
When you work with Katie Ziskind, you’re not just getting typical marriage counseling—you’re entering a safe, compassionate space where trauma is understood, honored, and gently unpacked.
Trauma, especially PTSD and Complex PTSD, can quietly live in your marriage, creating tension, miscommunication, and emotional distance—especially around intimacy.
Do you notice your partner shutting down, becoming anxious, avoiding touch, or freezing during moments that should feel loving and connected?
These reactions are not rejections of you—they are trauma responses rooted in deep emotional pain. Without support, it’s easy to feel hurt, confused, alone, or even blamed.
Katie Ziskind helps you make sense of those reactions. She’ll guide you to understand the nervous system, attachment wounds, and the body’s responses to unresolved trauma.
You’ll learn how your partner’s trauma history may make closeness feel overwhelming or unsafe. And you’ll begin to reframe your experiences—not as personal failures, but as opportunities to grow closer through empathy and emotional healing.
As well, couples therapy for trauma and PTSD in Satellite Beach, Florida, gives you a safe place to shift from insecurity to confidence.
To note, Katie Ziskind also teaches you practical, trauma-informed skills to strengthen your bond. You’ll learn how to soothe each other during triggers from than escalate fears of abandonment.
In couples therapy for trauma and PTSD in Satellite Beach, Florida, you learn to build emotional attunement, and co-create rituals of connection that foster trust and vulnerability.
What Is Emotional Attunement?
Emotional attunement is the ability to deeply tune into your partner’s inner world—their feelings, fears, desires, and emotional needs. When you’re emotionally attuned, you can sense your partner’s mood, pick up on nonverbal cues, and respond in ways that show care and empathy. You “get” them—not just intellectually, but emotionally. It’s like building an emotional Wi-Fi connection where both of you feel seen, heard, and validated. In therapy, you learn that emotional attunement isn’t about fixing your partner—it’s about understanding them and sitting with their emotions without judgment.
2. Why Emotional Attunement Matters in Relationships
When emotional attunement is strong, it creates a secure emotional bond. You begin to feel safe with your partner, trusting that they care about your inner experience. This sense of emotional safety is the foundation for healthy communication, trust, and connection. In contrast, when attunement is missing, you might feel misunderstood, dismissed, or emotionally alone in your relationship. That disconnection builds over time and can turn into resentment, criticism, or withdrawal. Emotional attunement is the bridge that helps you reconnect and understand each other more deeply.
The Link Between Emotional Attunement and Sexual Intimacy
Passionate sex doesn’t begin in the bedroom—it begins with emotional connection. When your partner feels attuned to you emotionally, your nervous system relaxes. You feel more open, desired, and safe.
Emotional attunement helps you feel emotionally naked before you become physically naked.
Without it, sex feels lifeless, passionless, mechanical, disconnected, or like a chore. When there is no emotional attunement, there may a sexual avoidance pattern. Couples therapy for trauma and PTSD in Satellite Beach, Florida helps you learn how emotional intimacy fuels sexual desire. And, marriage therapy helps you learn how slowing down to connect emotionally first creates space for playful, passionate, and meaningful sex.
Does a Lack of Emotional Attunement Cause Marital Conflict?
Yes, when you or your partner don’t feel emotionally understood, small issues can spiral into big arguments.
You might get caught in blame, defensiveness, or shut down entirely. It’s not that you’re fighting about dishes or money—you’re fighting because one or both of you feels unseen, unheard, or uncared for.
Marriage therapy with Katie Ziskind in Satellite Beach, Florida, helps you uncover the emotional needs underneath these fights.
You learn to repair emotional ruptures instead of repeating the same painful cycles over and over.
How Marriage Therapy at Wisdom Within Counseling Builds Emotional Attunement Skills
In couples therapy with Katie, you’ll learn how to slow down and listen to each other’s emotions with curiosity instead of judgment. You’ll practice using reflective listening, emotional mirroring, and validation—tools that help your partner feel deeply understood.
You’ll learn how to ask questions like, “What’s going on inside for you right now?” or say, “That makes sense you’d feel that way.”
In marriage therapy for trauma and PTSD in Satellite Beach, Florida, Katie Ziskind teaches you how to turn toward each other emotionally instead of turning away during conflict, which is essential for rebuilding connection and trust.
Understanding Trauma and Its Impact on Attunement
If one or both of you has PTSD or Complex PTSD, emotional attunement can feel incredibly difficult.
Trauma wires the nervous system for survival—fight, flight, freeze, or fawn—making it hard to be present, open, or vulnerable.
Marriage therapy for trauma and PTSD in Satellite Beach, Florida helps you both understand how trauma impacts your ability to connect.
Katie Ziskind teaches you trauma-informed strategies to regulate your emotions, slow down your reactions, and stay grounded during emotionally intense moments. This work creates the emotional safety you both need to move toward deeper closeness and intimacy.
Becoming Your Partner’s Safe Space
Marriage therapy for trauma and PTSD in Satellite Beach, Florida helps you become your partner’s emotional safe haven. Instead of reacting with defensiveness or trying to “fix” your partner’s feelings, you’ll learn how to hold emotional space for them.
Katie Ziskind guides you in developing empathy and compassion, especially when your partner is struggling.
When your partner knows they can come to you with their fears, shame, or insecurities—and that you’ll respond with care—that’s when real intimacy starts to grow. This safety becomes the foundation for both emotional and sexual reconnection.
Rebuilding Trust Through Emotional Attunement
In trauma-informed couples therapy, you’ll repair the emotional injuries that have eroded trust over time.
Maybe one of you has felt emotionally abandoned, unheard, or misunderstood for years. Marriage counseling for trauma and PTSD in Satellite Beach, Florida offers a structured and safe environment to express those hurts and be met with empathy.
Katie Ziskind helps you build a new emotional blueprint where you learn to respond to each other with warmth, presence, and emotional depth. Over time, this consistent attunement rebuilds the emotional trust needed for long-term closeness and sexual safety.
Practicing Emotional Foreplay
Katie Ziskind also introduces the idea of emotional foreplay—building emotional closeness throughout the day that naturally leads to sexual desire. This includes checking in with each other emotionally, expressing appreciation, and engaging in affectionate touch that isn’t goal-oriented.
You’ll learn how to stay emotionally connected even during busy or stressful times, which helps sustain the emotional bond. As you become more attuned to each other’s emotional world, sex becomes less of a pressure and more of a shared, joyful expression of your connection.
Creating a New Pattern of Emotional Intimacy
By working with Katie Ziskind in Satellite Beach, Florida, you’re not just learning new tools—you’re creating a new pattern of being emotionally present with each other. Emotional attunement isn’t a one-time fix; it’s a way of relating that transforms your marriage from the inside out.
You’ll start to notice fewer fights, more closeness, more understanding, and a renewed sexual connection.
Marriage counseling for trauma and PTSD in Satellite Beach, Florida gives you both the emotional language and the practical tools to stay connected, even during hard moments. This way, your marriage becomes a place of healing, safety, passion, and deep emotional intimacy.
In Satellite Beach, Florida, marriage therapy for trauma and PTSD with Katie Ziskind helps you focus on rebuilding emotional intimacy and sexual intimacy.
She’ll show you how to slow things down, emotionally and sexually, so both of you feel grounded, respected, and seen.
You’ll discover that rebuilding a sexual relationship after trauma isn’t about pushing past discomfort.
Co-creating a loving, passionate sex life is about creating safety, trust, and emotional intimacy first. From this foundation, sexual desire and sexual pleasure can unfold naturally and consensually.
When you and your spouse have been impacted by childhood abuse, neglect, and trauma, usually one partner feels lonely, confused, or sexually disconnected.
You may crave closeness, but find yourselves locked in a cycle of avoidance, hurt, or frustration.
Katie Ziskind helps you break that cycle of painful fighting in couples therapy for trauma and PTSD in Satellite Beach, Florida.
She helps you understand how trauma creates survival strategies—like emotional numbing, avoidance, or perfectionism—that once protected your partner, but now block intimacy.
With Katie Ziskind’s guidance, you’ll learn how to gently dismantle those defenses and replace them with vulnerability, communication, and emotional presence.
Most importantly, Katie Ziskind helps you reconnect emotionally first—because sexual passion grows from emotional closeness.
When your partner feels emotionally safe, they begin to soften, open up, and reconnect not just with you, but with their own body.
That’s when the real magic happens. You start feeling like partners again, not just roommates or co-parents.
From marriage counseling specialized for trauma and PTSD recovery in Satellite Beach, Florida, you laugh more. Couples counseling teaches you how to relax into each other. You touch more, and trust more. From marriage counseling for trauma and PTSD symptoms in Satellite Beach, Florida, you create a marriage where emotional intimacy and sexual connection feel sacred, not stressful.
When your marriage has been impacted by trauma, working with Katie Ziskind gives you both a second chance—not just to survive, but to thrive, love, and rediscover intimacy in a whole new way.
How can couples in counseling with Katie Ziskind, marriage therapist and trauma and CPTSD specialist, learn to shift from sex feeling like a chore to sex being a state of play?
In couples counseling with Katie Ziskind, a marriage therapist and trauma and CPTSD specialist, you’ll begin to explore why sex may currently feel like a chore, a duty, or an obligation.
Often, when you’ve experienced emotional neglect, childhood trauma, or had to perform for love as a child, you unknowingly carry those patterns into adulthood.
You may find yourself believing that you’re only lovable if you’re sexually available, or that your worth is tied to pleasing your partner sexually. Culture does not offer us sex positive education or sexual guidance.
This creates pressure, anxiety, and disconnection, turning sex into something you check off a list instead of something you look forward to.
Couples therapy for trauma and PTSD in Satellite Beach, Florida helps you untangle these deep-seated beliefs so you can stop performing sexually and start connecting.
Instead of treating sex like a goal-oriented task or a test you have to pass, therapy with Katie teaches you how to bring curiosity and presence into the bedroom.
You’ll begin to view sex not as something you have to do, but something you get to co-create with your partner.
You’ll learn that eroticism thrives in emotional safety, not performance. When you no longer feel like you have to get it right or be perfect, you can relax, breathe, and show up authentically. That shift alone can change everything.
With Katie Ziskind’s guidance, you’ll explore what it means to create a “couple bubble”—a safe emotional space where both of you can express your needs, desires, and fears without judgment.
In this space, you’ll learn that erotic energy is actually built through playful communication, emotional risk-taking, and attunement. Instead of rushing through sex or avoiding it altogether, you begin to slow down and savor the process of discovery. Sex becomes less about performance and more about presence.
Katie Ziskind integrates holistic methods such as breathwork, somatic yoga, and body-based mindfulness practices in session to help you get back into your body and out of your head.
When sex has been a source of shame or pressure, you may have learned to dissociate or shut down.
These practices gently guide you back into your senses so that touch, eye contact, and connection become grounding rather than overwhelming. When you’re embodied, you can truly enjoy pleasure instead of just enduring it.
Couples also learn to use the Gottman and Imago communication tools in session, which help you feel seen, validated, and emotionally safe.
When emotional safety is present, desire naturally follows. You’ll learn how to express your sexual needs and preferences without fear, and how to listen to your partner’s without defensiveness. These skills create the foundation for erotic playfulness—because you feel secure enough to take emotional and sensual risks.
Through guided conversations and experiential exercises, you’ll begin to reframe sex as a place where both of you get to be playful explorers rather than perfect performers.
You’ll practice small, pressure-free forms of affection and intimacy that rebuild trust and reignite desire.
Holding hands, laughing, sensual massage, slow dancing in the kitchen—these small acts create a rhythm of connection that carries into your sex life.
Katie helps you explore the emotional and energetic side of eroticism, showing you that playfulness in sex isn’t immature—it’s actually deeply intimate.
When you’re playful, you’re present. You’re not thinking about performance or outcome—you’re responding in the moment, curious, relaxed, and open.
This shift allows you to bring joy, surprise, and variety back into your sexual connection, rather than repeating the same sexual routines out of obligation or habit.
For many couples, this journey also involves healing from sexual shame, religious guilt, past trauma, or betrayal.
Katie Ziskind, marriage therapist in Melbourne, Florida, creates a space where you can grieve, release, and reframe your sexual story.
You’ll learn that eroticism doesn’t just mean penis in vagina intercourse—it’s any experience where you feel alive, connected, turned on, and free to express your full, sensual self. This broader definition makes intimacy feel more accessible and less pressured.
The more you and your partner learn to show up emotionally for each other, the easier it becomes to meet sexually. You’ll start to feel the difference between having sex out of duty versus engaging in erotic connection as a form of emotional play.
You’ll realize that laughter, curiosity, and mutual enjoyment are the real turn-ons. And, that sex doesn’t have to be serious to be meaningful. It can be lighthearted, fun, and even silly—and still deeply passionate.
By working with Katie Ziskind, you’ll learn how to co-create a sex life that feels emotionally nourishing and erotically alive. Instead of feeling stuck in cycles of sexual pressure, avoidance, or performance, you’ll feel free to show up as your true self.
In Satellite Beach, Florida, in couples therapy for trauma and PTSD, sex becomes a celebration of your connection. From marriage counseling, sex does not have to feel like an obligation. Good sex is not about rushing to penis in vagina sex, and not like pressure.
Sharing your sexuality and expressing your sexuality is something you both can look forward to because it feels like play.
From couples therapy for trauma and PTSD in Satellite Beach, Florida, you get to celebrate your sexuality in a connecting, fun, playful, and relaxing way.
Katie Ziskind, couples therapist specializing in trauma and PTSD is licensed in Florida. Meet on video telehealth.
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What is holistic and unique about how Katie Ziskind, couples therapist specializing for trauma and PTSD in Satellite Beach, Florida works?
At Wisdom Within Counseling in Satellite Beach, Florida, your couples therapy sessions go far beyond talking—they become a space for deep emotional transformation.
Katie Ziskind, a trauma and CPTSD specialist, weaves together holistic, experiential therapies that help you and your partner reconnect emotionally and physically.
Rather than staying stuck in conflict, you’ll learn how to become attuned to each other’s emotional needs. As well, in couples therapy for trauma and PTSD in Satellite Beach, Florida, you can soothe each others past trauma responses in a compassionate and healing environment.
For one, art, painting, and creative watercolors can be a part of marriage counseling.
Art in therapy is one of the cornerstones of your healing experience. If you’re someone who struggles to express feelings with words, art in couples therapy gives you a powerful outlet.
Through drawing, painting, collage, or symbolic imagery, you can express your inner emotional world. In a language beyond words, you can work on the same piece or individual art projects. Art in marriage counseling can reveal stuck pain from past trauma, and explore the emotional blocks standing in the way of intimacy.
This creative process helps you and your partner see each other with more empathy and understanding, which naturally builds connection and safety.
Katie Ziskind, trauma specialist in Florida, also integrates somatic yoga therapy right into your couples sessions.
Many trauma survivors in Satellite Beach, Florida, especially those with CPTSD from childhood abuse or narcissistic parents, store emotional pain in the body.
You and your partner will learn gentle yoga postures, breathwork, and grounding techniques that regulate your nervous systems and reduce reactivity.
This embodied healing helps you calm your fight-or-flight responses. Outside of marriage counseling, you can stay present and connected during difficult conversations rather than shutting down or becoming explosive.
Incorporating guided meditation and mindfulness, Katie Ziskind, trauma specialist for couples, helps you and your partner slow down and tune into your bodies and emotions.
Meditation cultivates patience, presence, and the ability to hold space for your partner’s pain without trying to fix it. You’ll learn how to listen to each other’s feelings without defensiveness. Over time, this mindfulness practice creates a safe container for emotional vulnerability, which is essential for rebuilding trust, closeness, and sexual intimacy.
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Katie Ziskind is trained in Gottman Method Couples Therapy, and she blends these science-backed tools with her trauma-informed approach.
You’ll practice concrete communication skills like using “I feel” statements, learning to repair after arguments, and understanding your partner’s emotional bids.
These skills help you stop fighting the same fights and start building rituals of emotional connection. To note, Gottman therapy tools are proven to enhance long-term relationship satisfaction and sexual connection.
She also brings in Imago Relationship Therapy techniques, guiding you and your partner to understand how childhood wounds show up in your relationship dynamics.
Imago therapy is based in research. You’ll identify your unconscious relationship patterns, often based on childhood survival strategies, and learn how to become healing partners for one another.
Through structured dialogue, you’ll practice truly listening to each other—not to respond, but to understand. This creates emotional safety, allowing deeper passion to grow between you.
She may guide you through a grounding yoga pose, followed by a communication exercise, and then finish with a piece of art or a mindfulness meditation.
One of the unique elements of Melbourne, beach, Florida marriage therapy with Katie Ziskind is how integrative the sessions are. You’re not just sitting and talking, you’re moving, creating, reflecting, and healing through multiple modalities at once.
These multi-sensory experiences activate healing on every level—emotional, physical, and spiritual.
Because Katie Ziskind is a trauma specialist, your therapy will never feel rushed or surface-level.
She understands that CPTSD survivors often struggle with fear of abandonment, shame, emotional numbness, or difficulty trusting.
More so, she gently helps you feel your feelings without becoming overwhelmed. She teaches both you and your partner how to co-regulate and be a calming presence for each other.
From couples therapy for trauma survivors in Melbourne Beach, Florida, you can heal from PTSD as a team. Your relationship becomes a place of emotional refuge rather than more stress.
When you begin to feel emotionally safe, your sexual connection will naturally deepen.
Many couples who struggle with sex also struggle with emotional intimacy. By building emotional intimacy skills through holistic therapy, you open the door to playful, sensual, and safe sexual connection.
You learn to ask for what you want, honor each other’s needs, and explore new levels of erotic closeness that feel deeply satisfying and connected.
Ultimately, Katie Ziskind’s unique approach helps you create a relationship where both of you feel heard, seen, and cherished.
Whether you’re navigating infidelity, PTSD flashbacks, sexual trauma, or just feeling emotionally distant, her holistic couples therapy in Florida is designed to help you heal from the inside out.
With art, somatic yoga therapy, mindfulness, and deep relationship repair skills, you and your partner can rebuild emotional safety, rekindle sexual passion, and create a secure, joyful bond that lasts.
