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Parenting & Partnership
Keeping Your Love Alive!

Jonathan Bartlett, LMFT
Heather Perlitch, MA


The growth of a family brings lots of changes, and many couples seek to stay connected, or re-connect as a couple, even as their roles and needs shift.

Taking time to tend to yourself and your partner is a whole new challenge when there seem to be so few moments to spare. How do you keep your loving partnership alive with so many competing needs crying for attention?
Most couples find these topics really hit home
in the months and years after becoming parents!

This 6 workshop collection focuses on the core needs of loving couples as they evolve through the cycles of parenthood. We exlore practical methods to resolve everyday relationship crises as well as take a deeper look at our assumptions about parenthood and intimacy, to find common ground. See more detail about series content.

This workshop provides a safe environment for you and your partner to learn in a group setting and then practice privately as a couple:
  • Discussing what you want from each other,
  • Letting go of damaging expectations,
  • Creating a shared vision of a satisfying life,
  • Re-establishing connection while living different roles.

All couples are welcome during pregnancy or any stage of parenting.
Advance registration is required.

This series is co-led by Parent Coach Jonathan Bartlett, LMFT, and Somatic Specialist Heather Perlitch, MA. If you have any further questions about the content or format, please feel free to contact Jonathan directly, at 408-353-3791, or by email.
For more background, read Jonathan's article about couple's therapy published on GoodTherapy.org.
Instructors: Jonathan Bartlett, LMFT and Heather Perlitch, MA
Cost: Valentine's Special $200 per couple registered by 2/3 - $220 after 2/4
Couples may attend the Intro (Week 1) for $40 at no risk, before committing to full series. If you decide to continue with series, you'd pay balance of $185 before week 2.
Min/Max: Minimum enrollment of 3, maximum 6 couples.
Child Policy: Since this is special time you are dedicating to your relationship as a couple, parents will want to arrange for childcare to allow their focused attention together in the workshops without children present.


Day Dates Time
Tuesdays February 7
Skips 2/14
February 21
February 28
March 6
March 13
March 20		 6:45 - 8:45 pm


You may register securely online with VISA or MC using the link next to your chosen date. If you prefer to pay with cash or check, click here for instructions.

Workshop Content Overview:

Intro to Parenting & Partnership - 2 Hours
Understanding the personal transformations taking place as women and men become mothers and fathers, which are a core precursor to reconnecting as a couple. Discovering the nature of this transformation will be unique to each person, so how can we identify and be responsible for communicating these changes to our partner? In this introductory workshop, we will provide some practical models to assist couples in expressing and hearing each partner's new needs and desires in a non-combative and cooperative way.

Making Requests, Saying Yes, Saying No - Week 2
Being direct with our partner requires an emotional honesty that may not have been modeled by our parents. We will explore a simple process for making requests without using guilt, blame, or fear as a tool to get our way. We will also discuss understanding our own limits, and tools for responding in a mindful way -- including how to stay connected as a couple, even while asserting one's own limits.

Acceptance and Gratitude - Week 3
Not getting our way is a drag! And yet, it is, of course, inevitable at times. Recovery from disappointment is a process that can lead us to all kinds of dark habits and addictions, even if just in small, resentful behaviors or thoughts. As an alternative to drowning our worries in old habits, we will imagine ways to stay connected, even while not getting our way. What does it mean to be ina state of acceptance? How can we learn and practice noticing the positive, to practice gratitude?

Be Curious, Not Furious - Week 4
The art of listening -- really listening -- requires an ability to put aside one's own agenda temporarily, dig deep, and rediscover the innate curiousity that brought the two of you together in the first place! It usually also ends up allowing our partner to feel deeply respected in a way that will open their heart to our needs in return. Everyone needs help to listen to things we don't want to hear -- here's how.

Parenting the Inner Children in Your Home - Week 5
One gift of parenting is it allows us to re-parent our own selves. How is your partner giving themself a "missed experience" through their interactions with your child(ren)? In this workshop, we take a look at the missing experiences that rule how we form a parenting team, and how understanding those links can open doors of connection and healing.

Your Body and Your Love Life - Week 6
We end our series with a chance to bring our new skills together around this important aspect of physical and emotional intimacy. Being in touch with our senses, communicating our desires effectively to those we love, being curious about their response, accepting what is, and seeking new ways to experience connection... these skills will give common ground to the journey ahead.