Compassionate and Qualified Relationship and Depth Therapist, Author and Teacher.

Compassionate and Qualified Relationship Therapist, Author and Teacher.

Feeling Stuck in Your Relationship or Life Calling? Discover the Path to Rediscovery and Growth

Couples Emotionally Focused Therapy

We can work through a wide range of challenges, including communication conflict, infidelity injuries, intimacy issues and more.

Individual Emotionally Focused Therapy

Become more emotionally connected with yourself and the people you love.

Relationship Counseling

Learn how to deepen the connection and security in your relationship and experience greater intimacy and happiness.

Individual Depth Psychotherapy

Expand your capacity to become your best self by diving into deeper self-understanding with a Jungian psychological and spiritual development approach.

Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy can help save and transform your relationship

At the Center for Relational Excellence we help couples escape reactive cycles allowing them to connect for a lifetime of love. Counting on relationship skills or behaviors is not enough to calm the emotional centers in the brain. Learning how to answer your partner’s fears with compassionate responses heals trauma triggers and builds emotional trust. Dr. Regier will help you move your intention to love from your head to heart-felt expressions that will create a lifetime of trust and relationship satisfaction.

Meet Dr. Michael W. Regier

Dr. Michael Regier is a clinical psychologist, certified Emotionally Focused Couples Therapist and individual Depth Therapist. He has over 35 years of experience working with diverse clients in inpatient, outpatient, addictions, and corporate settings. He welcomes invitations to share his original teaching, storytelling and music.

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Dr. Michael Regier offers Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy (EFCT) which is scientifically validated as the gold standard for relationship therapies. He sees San Luis Obispo County clients in-person in his Los Osos, California office. In addition, he serves clients throughout California online. Dr. Regier is skilled at working with couples to balance their relationship needs. He helps couples with communication problems and mistrust by identifying the triggers that create arguments. He helps couples learn how to validate and appreciate what each person brings to the relationship.

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Dr. Regier uses Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT) to help individuals become more aware of their and others’ emotions. He can help you heal emotional triggers from past painful experiences, feel and express feelings in a way that deepens relationship with yourself and others, and talk about your feelings with compassionate, nonjudgmental understanding. Dr. Regier can help you learn to regulate your emotions and decrease stress, overwhelm and the need to isolate.

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Our experiences with past relationships can challenge our ability to stay connected to others. Relationship Counseling and relationship education can help couples and individuals understand how to build relationship foundations. Understanding the science of attachment, how to grow emotional intelligence, and understanding personality differences are invaluable for helping you and your relationship thrive. With the right knowledge and guidance, you can experience those transformative aha moments when real change happens.

Michael’s many resources – books, poetry, music, online courses, seminars and retreats – will help you learn with your head and express with your heart.

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Depth Therapy was created by the psychiatrist Carl Jung. Depth Therapy is ideal for individuals who are ready to do a deep dive into hidden feelings and memories that influence relationships, well-being, and living into your peak potential. An essential goal of depth therapy is what Jung called individuation, which involves integrating the different aspects of your personality into a unified whole, empowering you to become your best self.

Depth Therapy is ideal for people who have accomplished many life goals. They may have achieved a successful career and have a stable family life, but they still want to explore new paths for self-expression and contribution to the world.

This powerful method of psychotherapy uses techniques like dream analysis, journaling, active imagination, narrative therapy, and applying the meaning found in wisdom literature and mythology.

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