Give yourself + your sweetie the gift of conflict resilience.

The Sweetheart Special is a coaching package developed for romantic partners. Whether you’ve been together for some time, are deepening a newer connection, or are negotiating a change - life and love are full of moments of tension. Rather than letting pain build up between you, use your conflicts as lessons for how you want to connect with one another authentically.

Working with a professional mediator and nonviolent communication practitioner, we’ll set our focus on your biggest relationship tension. Olga will work with you to uncover each partner’s unmet needs, assess what communication practices are triggering pain, and brainstorm new ways of meeting each other in the relationship.

This opportunity is for you if:
- You want to deepen and improve the communication with your partner(s).
- You’re ready to speak honestly and vulnerably about what’s not working for you right now.
- Are willing and able to hear your partner’s vulnerable truth, even if it is a little scary.
- Are wanting help to strengthen your relationship.
You can expect a compassionate, confidential, and judgement-free space to process and transform your relationship.
All sessions are client-led, which means we work on the topics of your choice. The space will be a safe container to talk about the tough stuff and grow the good. It is safe because you’ll never have to answer any question you don’t want to and can stop the process at any time.
In our time working together I’ll draw from the teachings of Nonviolent Communication, Compassionate Inquiry, Gottman research findings, and Internal Family Systems Therapy.
This offering is for any type of romantic relationship between consenting adults.
Monogamous, polyamorous, straight, queer - all are welcome! Prices are set for two participants in the sessions.
If you are multiple partners (3+) who want to participate in coaching, please reach out to hello@olgalm.com to discuss group rates.
This offering is not for individuals. For individual coaching go to: https://www.olgalm.com/coaching

Process Outline

Joint Session: Setting Intentions

This coaching package begins with a 1.5 hour joint-session between both members of the couple and Olga. The first step together is an appreciative inquiry. I’ll ask questions like:

How did you first get together?
What’s already working about your relationship?
What makes you each feel seen and loved and heard?

Knowing what’s working is important because it gives us an idea of the habits you don’t want to lose.

Once we know what’s working, we’ll set intentions for what you want to change through our work together. I’ll ask questions like:

Imagine we’ve completed this process and it’s been a wild success. What would be different about your relationship? How would you be treating each other now? What emotions would you be feeling?
What do you hope to get out of this process?

Intentions are important for a successful process because they offer a goal post and will determine what we focus on in our work together. We’ll end session one by outlining the rest of the process and scheduling individual sessions.

A set of individual sessions follow the beginning joint session. Individual sessions are an opportunity for each person in the couple to be heard individually about their unique needs and tend to their triggers and emotional wounds. Although the details of these sessions are not kept confidential from the other partner (couples coaching can’t be done effectively with secrets), it is a place to process challenging feelings and better understand your own experience.

Individual sessions are client-led, which means we work on the topics that are most relevant and chosen by the person in the couple. As each person in the couple decides they are ready to return to another joint session, we do so.

Individual Sessions: Compassionate Inquiry

When we return to joint sessions, we work on transforming your relationship through dialogue.

Sessions will focus on whatever is most relevant for the couple at that time. Partners will be prompted and invited to share their feelings and unmet needs relating to the topic of focus. Olga will help each partner hear the needs of the other and practice empathy. We’ll work on listening through judgments and accusations for the true message underneath: the unmet need.

Once each partner understands their own feelings and needs, along with the feelings and needs of their partner, we’ll begin brainstorming new solutions that can honor everyone’s needs.

Joint-Sessions Cont’d: Dialogue + Transformation

If needed, individual sessions can be requested on demand by either member of the couple in order to support the work of the joint sessions.

Individual Sessions: On Demand

Ready to say yes to deeper connection?

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Meet your coach: Olga Liapis-Muzzy

Hello! I’m a Washington, DC based mediator, facilitator, and coach working for personal and social transformation.

Life has taught me that love, in and of itself, is not enough to sustain a healthy romantic connection. If you’re regularly hurting each other in your interactions, the relationship will buckle under the pressure of ongoing pain.

As a mediator I love working with romantic partners who want to stay together but need a little extra help in figuring out how to avoid and recover from emotional pain that’s come up because of conflict.

As a practitioner, I work to maintain a trauma-informed and anti-racist practice, the central motto of which is: correction is a gift.

Investment

Inclusive pricing allows me to offer my services to anyone in need without an economic barrier. You pay the rate that best fits your economic reality. Please honor your needs while respecting the work of this offering by registering at the highest level that you are able.

Your purchase today will cover the cost of the initial 1.5-hour joint session. By purchasing a package today, you agree to pay the stated hourly rate at the time of scheduling each subsequent session. You are not required to complete any number of sessions and can stop working with Olga at any time. Click on each package to see the full terms and conditions.