Rod Kochtitzky

The Pastoral Center for Healing

3605 Hillsboro Pike

Nashville, TN 37215

Phone Number: (615) 385-3838

Email: rod@rodk.net

Do you know how people fall in love? It’s a wonderful relationship stage where you feel that warm golden glow whenever you’re in the presence of your loved one. You complete each other’s sentences, and you feel like you have found your soulmate. But after about 6 months, and especially after you are married or have made a commitment to each other, this warm feeling begins to fade and the reality of living with another person who is really very different from you begins to set in. The relationship of your dreams becomes the relationship of conflict and disappointment. The statistics say that you are either on the road toward divorce (51% of all first marriages) or a parallel relationship, where your lives become filled with children, friends, hobbies, work and the daily tasks of life. You no longer have a close relationship, but a more distant one. Couples in this phase often characterize themselves as being like roommates or being at war with one another. I teach couples skills that help them move from conflict rooted in unconscious patterns into a new understanding of conflict, its purpose, and how to handle it. Harmony, disharmony, harmony, disharmony prevail in a relationship until we are simply worn out. I specialize in what is called “Imago Relationship Therapy”. The Imago approach changes the pattern from harmony, disharmony to repair. Couples who learn to do the work of repair find intimacy and real love. Imago moves couples from unconscious relating into conscious relating. Conscious relating is seeing what is really going on instead of focusing on what the other partner got wrong. I hope you will check out my website.

Gender: Male

Graduate Degree: Masters Of Divinity

University: General Theological Seminary, NYC

Graduate Degree: Certificate in Pastoral Psychotherapy

University: Institutes of Religion and Health, NYC

License: Clinical Pastoral Therapist

Certifications/Awards/Memberships/Publications:

Past Board Member of Nashville Psychotherapy Insttitute

Past Board Member of Association of Imago Relationship Therapist

Past Co-Chair of Nashville Psychotherapy Institute

Advanced Clinician in Imago Relationship Therapy

Workshop Presenter in Imago Relationship Therapy

Member of Imago Relationships International

Fellow in the American Association of Pastoral Counselors

Member Nashville Psychotherapy Institute

Member TN Association of Pastoral Therapist