Our Therapy Model

Multi-Dimensional Relational Therapy (MDRT)

Based on our many decades of research and clinical experience, we have designed a new model, which we have named Multi-Dimensional Relational Therapy (MDRT). Our objective is to assist you in transforming the inner core of your being, and to create high self-esteem, lasting love, connection, and intimacy, both with yourself, and between you and your partner.

We, the authors, in our over sixty years of combined research and practice of psychotherapy, have noted certain consistent themes, which fall into six dimensions. Although many people focus on the differences between themselves and others, the authors believe, that from a psychological, physiological, and humanistic perspective, we are all much more similar than different. This is true even though people come from all walks of life (e.g., cultures, religions, social statuses, nationalities, ages, genders, and belief systems.

Over the last four decades, we have worked with thousands of people of diverse backgrounds across the lifespan. Whether it be with a young woman of eighteen, or an older man of seventy-five, keeping these similarities in mind has allowed us to understand and help people with their emotional, psychological, and spiritual difficulties.

Resulting from these research outcomes and clinical experiences, MDRT has been created, designed, and is founded upon the principles that have been established in psychosocial and psychodynamic models and literature, and have been supported in the study of Neuroscience. Psychosocial psychology informs us about how relationships are formed, and how people communicate to create closeness and intimacy with each other. Psychodynamic psychology focuses on how we develop from infancy through adulthood and refers to the messages and the modeling that we received in our most formative years. Neuroscience helps us understand how and why our brains function as they do and begs the question of whether our spirit actually exists.

Originally, in our clinical work, we learned and practiced only within the boundaries of the above three schools of therapy. Over the years, we found that the function of ‘ego’ and ‘spirit,’ that kept appearing with our clients and patients during the therapy hour, was missing and/or neglected in much of the psychological literature. By incorporating these two additional concepts, we created our model of MDRT. The six dimensions that follow form the MDRT model, which completes the picture of how we function. It helps explain what gets in the way of our quest to create high self-esteem, as well as closeness and intimacy in our most important relationships.