Change your mind,

change your love story

Change your mind,

change your love story

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Sometimes, it takes the pain of profound disconnection to sound the alarm in a relationship. It can be the wake-up call that tips the balance from tolerating unhappiness to making important changes in how you approach life and relate to yourself and your partner. Couples can turn their parallel living and chronic ruptures into wholehearted connection when they’re willing to get curious, seek and accept guidance, SLOW down, take responsibility, and approach important relational moments in a new way.

Hi,

I'm Alicia

My name is Alicia Muñoz and I’m a writer, counselor and couples therapist. I have extensive training in Imago Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy, and Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy.

Over the course of the last two decades, I’ve worked in private clinics, New York City’s Bellevue Hospital and private practice. But my biggest lessons didn’t happen at work or in trainings. They happened in relationships. Like the couples I work with, I’ve struggled to find happiness, fulfillment and peace in a committed romantic relationship. Following a painful divorce in my late twenties, I didn’t have much faith in healthy partnerships—or in my own ability to be in one myself. Two decades later, I know differently.

Happy love stories are created, not stumbled upon.

I hope you’ll use the resources you find on these pages to understand yourself better, connect to your body’s innate wisdom, SLOW down, and bring a sense of curiosity and mindfulness to the unresolved conflicts you experience with your partner as you practice new self-soothing and communication skills.

Alicia Muñoz is a true artist—in how she sees the nuances of relationships and in how she helps readers address its complexities in simple yet effective ways. It doesn’t hurt that she draws us in with writing that’s at once compassionate, direct, and utterly engaging.
Livia Kent
Editor in Chief of Psychotherapy Networker Magazine

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Hi,

I'm Alicia

My name is Alicia Muñoz and I’m a writer, counselor and couples therapist. I have extensive training in Imago Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy, and Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy.

Over the course of the last two decades, I’ve worked in private clinics, New York City’s Bellevue Hospital and private practice. But my biggest lessons didn’t happen at work or in trainings. They happened in relationships. Like the couples I work with, I’ve struggled to find happiness, fulfillment and peace in a committed romantic relationship. Following a painful divorce in my late twenties, I didn’t have much faith in healthy partnerships—or in my own ability to be in one myself. Two decades later, I know differently.

Happy love stories are created, not stumbled upon.

I hope you’ll use the resources you find on these pages to understand yourself better, connect to your body’s innate wisdom, SLOW down, and bring a sense of curiosity and mindfulness to the unresolved conflicts you experience with your partner as you practice new self-soothing and communication skills.

Alicia Muñoz is a true artist—in how she sees the nuances of relationships and in how she helps readers address its complexities in simple yet effective ways. It doesn’t hurt that she draws us in with writing that’s at once compassionate, direct, and utterly engaging.
Livia Kent
Editor in Chief of Psychotherapy Networker Magazine

Stop Overthinking Your Relationship:

Break the Cycle of Anxious Rumination to Nurture Love, Trust, and Connection with Your Partner

One of the most common and destructive issues in romantic relationships is rumination. Drawn from CBT, RFCBT, short-term psychodynamic and mindfulness therapies, Stop Overthinking Your Relationship offers a practical four-step approach to reduce rumination and change your negative thinking patterns so you can find joy, ease and connection with your partner.

If you ever feel like you are drowning in the negative cycles of your own thoughts, this is the book for you. Alicia provides a detailed description of this debilitating phenomenon and an equally detailed description of the process of moving from rumination to engagement and connection. We recommend a careful reading and practice of the liberating processes.
Harville Hendrix, Ph. D. and Helen LaKelly Hunt, Ph. D.
Co-authors of Getting the Love You Want: A Guide for Couples
"Stop overthinking your relationship" book cover by Alicia Muñoz, image of standing book mockup

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