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What is Imago Relationship Therapy & Coaching?
Imago Relationship Therapy is a powerful yet gentle approach to strengthening relationships and creating emotional safety. I use Imago to support not only couples but also individuals and those navigating relationships with family members and friends who matter deeply in their lives. At its core, Imago helps slow down communication, soften reactivity, and create deeper understanding and connection.
Developed in the 1980s by Dr. Harville Hendrix and Dr. Helen LaKelly Hunt, coauthors of Getting the Love You Want, Imago recognizes that our closest relationships often mirror early relationship experiences, including trauma. Rather than viewing these patterns as problems, Imago frames them as powerful openings for awareness, healing, and deeper connection.
What makes Imago so transformative is its focus on compassionate, intentional dialogue. Rather than escalating conflict or assigning blame, Imago creates space for people to feel genuinely heard, validated, and understood. Through guided dialogues and relational practices, you learn how to repair rupture, rebuild trust, and respond with greater presence and empathy.
Whether working individually or with others, Imago therapy and coaching support deeper self-awareness, healthier boundaries, and more meaningful, fulfilling relationships in all areas of life.
Our Focus Areas
Relationship Therapy
Individual Counseling
Individual Counseling
Using Imago Relationship Therapy and Emotionally Focused Therapy, I provide support that helps people improve communication, repair connections, and rebuild trust in all types of relationships. Engaging in relationship therapy creates healthy relationships, which are essential for emotional well-being, resilience, and overall life satisfaction.
Individual Counseling
Individual Counseling
Individual Counseling
Supporting personal growth, self-discovery, and resilience through tailored strategies, guidance, and techniques, including hypnosis, mindfulness, and somatic work. Our individual sessions help you reduce stress, increase self-awareness, and strengthen emotional regulation. Through individual counseling, you can overcome limiting patterns and build confidence to navigate life’s challenges. Clients often experience greater clarity, empowerment, and a stronger sense of purpose, enabling them to create meaningful change and live more fully.
Reiki Healing Energy
Individual Counseling
Culturally Sensitive Support
Reiki is a gentle, restorative energy practice that supports emotional balance, reduces stress, and promotes deep relaxation. Reiki helps clients release tension held in the body, calm the nervous system, and restore a sense of inner peace. Reiki enhances healing by easing anxiety, improving sleep, and creating space for clarity and emotional release. Many clients leave feeling grounded, lighter, and more connected to themselves.
Culturally Sensitive Support
Communologue Building Bridges in Groups
Culturally Sensitive Support
I help refugee and immigrant communities by offering guidance, immigration evaluations, and support that respects culture and background. I also lead workshops, groups, and talks about racism, inclusion, and diversity to help people learn, feel empowered, and work toward fair and welcoming communities.
Imago Parenting Program
Communologue Building Bridges in Groups
Communologue Building Bridges in Groups
Parenting isn’t about getting it right—it’s about staying connected. The Imago Parenting Group provides a supportive space for parents to slow down, reflect, and gain a deeper understanding of their own triggers, while learning practical tools for connection, repair, and emotional attunement with their children and themselves. Grounded in Imago-based principles, the group explores how our own experiences shape the way we parent and how increased awareness creates choice, compassion, and meaningful change. This group is designed for thoughtful parents who want to be more intentional, reflective, and confident in how they show up, especially during challenging moments. This virtual closed 8-week meets for 2 hours each week. The cost is $50 per week.
Parents will acquire tools that enhance patience, confidence, and cooperation at home, ultimately fostering secure, connected family relationships that endure.
Email to be put on the waitlist for the next cohort!
Communologue Building Bridges in Groups
Communologue Building Bridges in Groups
Communologue Building Bridges in Groups
Communologue is a guided, structured dialogue process designed to create safety, openness, and inclusion. It supports deep communication and authentic connection within families, communities, and organizations.
Through intentional facilitation, Communologue establishes a respectful conversational space where diverse perspectives are welcomed and each person feels heard and valued. This process helps groups move beyond conflict, tension, and mistrust toward empathy, understanding, and meaningful exchange.
While Communologue is not a traditional conflict-resolution or problem-solving service, it naturally strengthens collaboration, mutual respect, and shared movement toward common goals.
Participants experience the Communologue method firsthand and gain practical tools they can apply in their relationships, workplaces, and communities. Ongoing practice opportunities are available for those who wish to deepen their engagement and continue cultivating dialogue, connection, and peacebuilding.
At its foundation, Communologue weaves together three essential elements:
Safety in communication, Honor for each individual and their experience, and Hope where new understanding can emerge.
The rate is $160 for 75 minutes, with a minimum of 2 hours.
Imago Intensives-Coming Soon!
Customized Combination Sessions
Imago Intensives-Coming Soon!
An Imago Intensive is an extended, focused session designed to help couples or individuals deepen connection, resolve conflict, and accelerate relationship growth. Lasting a minimum of 2 to 5 hours, these sessions provide dedicated time to slow down, explore patterns, and practice the tools of Imago Relationship Therapy in a safe and supportive environment. Intensives are ideal for couples or individuals who want to work through challenges more deeply than standard weekly sessions typically allow. With guided dialogue, structured exercises, and real-time support, participants often leave with greater understanding, renewed connection, and practical strategies to strengthen communication and repair relational ruptures.
The rate is $160 per hour, with session length tailored to meet your specific needs.
Hypnotherapy
Customized Combination Sessions
Imago Intensives-Coming Soon!
Hypnosis is a gentle process that helps you access the part of your mind where real change happens. You remain aware, in control, and deeply supported as your attention naturally settles into a calm, focused state. From this place, insight comes more easily, old patterns loosen, and new choices begin to feel possible.
How it can help you
- Feel calmer, more grounded, and emotionally regulated
- Release habits, fears, and patterns that no longer serve you
- Strengthen self-trust, confidence, and inner clarity
- Heal at a pace that feels safe and respectful to your nervous system
- Improve sleep, focus, and overall resilience
- Experience change that feels natural, embodied, and lasting.
Hypnosis works because it honors your history, your body, and your inner wisdom, so growth feels aligned rather than overwhelming.
Each hypnosis session is personalized to your comfort and pace. Sessions are offered at $135 for 60 minutes or $160 for 75 minutes.
Customized Combination Sessions
Customized Combination Sessions
Customized Combination Sessions
Experience a session designed entirely around you, combining hypnosis, Reiki, and individual or couples counseling to support your emotional, relational, and personal growth. Each combination session is thoughtfully tailored to your comfort and goals, helping you release old patterns, build resilience, and create meaningful change. Sessions are $160 for 75 minutes.
About Thavone
I’m Thavone Huinil-Phommavongsa, a Certified Imago Relationship Therapist with over 23 years of clinical experience supporting individuals, couples, and families who are ready for genuine changes for strong, healthy relationships.
My work is well-suited for people who are motivated, self-aware, and tired of repeating the same patterns despite years of effort. Many of the clients I work with are committed and deeply invested in their relationships, yet they often feel disconnected, misunderstood, or unsure how to move forward without losing themselves or one another.
Having navigated relationship struggles myself, I understand how painful disconnection, rejection, and feeling unseen can be. That lived experience shapes my work and informs a therapeutic stance grounded in empathy, emotional safety, and presence. I believe healing happens not through quick fixes or surface-level strategies, but through slowing down, deepening awareness, and learning how to be in relationship differently.
As a Lao therapist, my work is informed by lived experience within a collectivist culture, intergenerational family systems, and the resilience shaped by migration and ancestry. This cultural lens supports nuanced, culturally responsive care that honors complexity and cross-cultural bonds.
Clients often describe sessions with me as grounding, steady, and emotionally safe. even when the work is challenging and stretching them. I bring a calm, attuned presence and a clear therapeutic structure that supports insight, safety, and sustainable change.
In addition to Imago Relationship Therapy, I integrate hypnosis, IFS (Internal Family Systems, Brainspotting, Reiki, mindfulness-based practices, and somatic techniques to support embodied healing and deeper integration. Each client’s work is tailored, intentional, and respectful of pace, capacity, and readiness.
Outside of my clinical work, I’m a parent and partner of a blended family of five children, which continues to deepen my understanding of relational complexity and ongoing healing and growth.
I’m grounded by spiritual practice, meditation, reflective reading, and time in nature, and I’m equally nourished by community and connection. These lived experiences shape the steady, thoughtful presence I bring into the therapy space.
My work is not short-term or transactional. It is designed for those who value depth, discernment, and lasting change. At the heart of my practice is the belief that we heal best in relationships where we feel safe enough to be honest, reflective, and real.
If you’re ready to invest in your relationships and engage in meaningful, transformative work, I welcome the opportunity to walk alongside you.
Transform Your Life with Thavone Huinil-Phommavongsa
My Story....And Why I Do This Work
Education & Training
I hold a Master’s degree in Social Work and a Bachelor’s degree in Metaphysics, and I am currently pursuing a PhD in Metaphysics.
Professional Experience
I have worked with diverse communities, including individuals who are unhoused, families, and immigrant populations. My experience includes case management, supervising social work students, teaching, community advocacy, and leading workshops focused on diversity, inclusion, and equity.
Why I Do This Workthe
My passion comes from my own story. My family came to the United States as refugees, and it was the support of community and strong relationships that helped us thrive. We did not succeed alone; we succeeded because people showed up for us.
My Values & Approach
I am driven by relationships and guided by belonging, connection, and equity. I work with individuals and communities to strengthen relationships because when relationships are centered, it is where we heal, grow, and thrive together.
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Let me know what kind of support you need
Take Action & Start Your Healing
Taking the first step toward support and growth is simple. You can schedule a session by filling out the form on this page, calling, or emailing me directly.
I understand that reaching out for support often comes at a tender and vulnerable time, and waiting weeks for an appointment can feel discouraging. I’m intentional about offering appointments within two weeks whenever possible, so support feels accessible when you need it most.
Email: intentionalives@gmail.com
Grand Rapids, MI, USA
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Change happens not by fixing who you are, but by understanding yourself with compassion.
