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About Us

Imago Relationship Therapy supplies all the tools and techniques needed to transform your relationship. It also supplies immediate relief. We can help you to discover the relationship of your dreams through a process of dialogue and connection.
Relationship Specialists
Qualified

Imago Clinical

Relationship Therapists

Care and Support
Effective

Researched

Processes

Imago Relationship Therapy helps you to love differently
Experienced Therapists
Together we have

60 years experience

in Couples Therapy

Couples Therapy
Focussed Processes

to transform

your marriage

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Reduce Conflict with
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Success rate
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Shared experience
Couples reached
A new way to love
How can Imago Therapy help you?
  • Are you currently in a troubled relationship?
  • Are you wondering what happened to the relationship that you started with?
  • Wouldn’t you like to rediscover the relationship you once had and make it last forever?
  • Maybe you’re in a new relationship or you’re part of a couple preparing for marriage and your desire is to create a true relationship that will stand the test of time.
  • Perhaps you’re single and simply tired of getting into relationships that never seem to meet your expectations.

 

People believe that when they’re in a loving relationship, it is supposed to last forever. Two people feel like they’ve met the person of their dreams and a magical transformation takes place within each of them. During the “in love” phase, people feel alive, whole, connected to the world and the people in it. Very often though, the magical “in love” feeling disappears and people are left disillusioned. Their dreams of a perfect relationship are shattered, and feelings of anger and betrayal often overwhelm those who are faced with reality.

 

People often try to coerce their partners into giving them what they need in the relationship, through tactics like criticism, withdrawing from emotional attachment, shaming each other, intimidating partners, and using tears and crying as a method of manipulation – even if it’s unconscious. Some couples are locked in these painful power struggles for years, until the relationship is eventually broken or when one member of the partnership finally seeks help, desperate to regain the magic that the relationship once held.

If these scenarios describe the relationship you are currently in, and you would like to restore some of the passion an intimacy you once had, or you are an individual looking to find the love of your life, Imago can show you a new way to love.

What’s going on here?

Romantic love is the way our unconscious mind seeks to restore the feeling of joyful alertness we felt as a child. In pursuit of this goal, we unknowingly seek relationships with people who emotionally resemble our primary caretakers in both positive and negative ways – we call this finding our Imago match. The term Imago is actually a Latin term that means “the idealised mental image of someone”. Even though our caretakers have both positive and negative qualities, it’s the negative qualities that interfere in our relationships. Our expectations of the image of the individual we have fallen in love with create confusion and disillusionment. Fortunately, embedded in this disillusionment lies everything the relationship needs for healing and growth.

Imago Relationship Therapy provides all the tools necessary for transforming relationships, including some important, immediate relief from bad relationships.

When we remain unaware of the hidden agenda of romantic love, we continue to make the same mistakes. We need to understand that conflict is undirected, unfulfilled growth. By resolving your problem through Imago Dialogue, the emotional bond initially created by romantic love can evolve into the powerful bond that is real love. Imago Therapy creates a sacred space for healing and growth that can lead you to the relationship of your dreams.

We can help you discover the relationship of your dreams through a process of healing, dialogue and re-connection.

Harville Hendrix PhD en Helen la Kelly Hunt PhD oor Kobus van der Merwe

Harville Hendrix PhD en Helen la Kelly Hunt PhD Stigters van Imago Verhoudings Terapie
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What others say
  • positive review  Hierdie is ñ moet vir elke paartjie. Kobus het ñ wonderlike gawe om die harde-toffie-deel van verhoudings oop te breek, te ontbloot en ons te leer hoe ons kan genees. Kobus se kennis, insig en ervaring is ñ wonderlike belewenis. Imago is die grootste geskenk wat jy vir jouself en dié om jou kan gee.

    Annelie Kinnear Avatar Annelie Kinnear
    April 4, 2019
  • 5 star review  Beslis die beste by die beste. Moet dit nie mis nie.

    Marjonneke De Bruyn Avatar Marjonneke De Bruyn
    August 16, 2014

Kobus received here the International Imago Harville Hendrix Award for Clinical Excellence 2016 in Los Angeles, California

Effective, certified and professional help for your marriage
Our Team
Kobus van der Merwe
Imago Therapist/Clinical Professor at Daybreak University in Imago Relationship Therapy
Harville Hendrix Award for Clinical Excellence 2016 Award
Hendrien van der Bijl
Imago Therapist
Start right. Stay right. For the millenia couple
Dr Cornel van der Merwe
Psychiatrist/Imago Therapist
40+ years experience. Therapy for the individual
El'Marie Grove
Practice Manager
El’Marie is a certified Imago Professional Facilitator. She will support your process and bookings with care and efficiency

Email                               Tel: 081 559 9130               Address: 102 Swaardlelie Avn, Die Wilgers, Pretoria