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Couples therapy

on a haptonomic basis

Approach

A healthy relationship is a place where you feel safe and can thrive. Irritations, arguments, setbacks, or other factors can put pressure on this. Through haptonomic relationship therapy, you learn to reconnect with yourself and, consequently, with others.

Michael Ris's practice currently has no waiting list, so you can come right away, individually or with a partner.

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Awareness

Discover which behaviors or beliefs are disrupting the relationship

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Experience

Not only understanding but especially experiencing what you and your partner feel

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Insights

Reconnect

In boundaries, distance & proximity, intimacy and responsibility

Restore the connection between head, heart and body with yourself and with others

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Connection starts with feeling


Couples therapy in Amsterdam & Heiloo

Haptonomy makes visible what is happening in relationships. It brings patterns, blockages, and underlying needs to light, helping you become aware of behaviors that disrupt connection. By connecting more deeply with your own feelings and desires, space is created for genuine, loving communication. This initiates a process in which you learn to relate differently to yourself and others, allowing you to experience freedom within connection again.

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You will learn to:

  • Sense and set your boundaries

  • Allow intimacy and closeness

  • Recognize and share your feelings

  • Process loss, grief, or trauma affecting the relationship

  • Navigate freedom, power, and dependency

  • Better understand what is going on with the other person

  • Restore mutual connection

  • Experience sexuality from genuine connection

  • Reconnect when you feel disconnected from each other

  • Express yourself from emotional safety

From misunderstanding to connection

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Besides being a professional relationship therapist, I'm also an expert by experience. After a 17-year relationship with three children, we finally realized, after a long struggle, that our love affair was over. Sadness, anger, fear, and frustration are all part of that. Thanks in part to relationship haptotherapy, our communication is open and respectful. Whether you decide to go your separate ways or reconnect, I'm happy to guide you on that journey!

Michael Ris

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