"End Intimate Partner Abuse
in Your Relationship"

From the Desk of Dr. Jeanne King, Ph.D.

Dear Couple,

When people initially seek to remedy the
physical, verbal and/or emotional abuse in
their lives, they long to find an intervention
that helps them salvage their relationship.
We see this all the time, even at the
police station.

Abuse survivors show up, with or without
their abused children, and plead to police
officers to help them stop the abuse. They
say, "No, I don't want to file a complaint;
I just want to end the domestic abuse."

This is natural. It is understandable. What
they really want is the dream they hold,
the love they once had, the family they
know. They want peace and well-being,
AND they want it with their intimate
partners.

They reach out to law enforcement and healthcare for a remedy for the abuse that infests their intimate relationship, yet all too often all they hear is "leave your battering spouse, before the abuse spirals out of control."

While this may be the proper avenue of remedy at some juncture, once entrenched in the cycle of domestic abuse...it's usually not the first option one desires or would choose.

Accordingly, we are pleased to introduce a tried and true treatment intervention designed to help you and your partner break the cycle of domestic abuse in your relationship...And alternatively cultivate a relationship atmosphere of mutual respect, honoring and support devoid of interactional violence and victimization.

We’ve just met, so let me tell you who we are...as you may be wondering, why listen to us?

Jeanne King, Ph.D.

I have been helping people identify, end and heal from domestic abuse for over a decade. And I serve as a consulting expert on both civil and criminal cases of intimate partner violence.

The first book I wrote on the subject, All But My Soul, became a college textbook in criminal justice. Since this time, I've published over 230 articles on identifying, ending and healing physical, emotional and verbal abuse.

I am a seasoned psychologist of 27 years. And this background gives me the benefit of understanding the psychosocial dynamics that bind abusive relationships as well as the mechanics of healing relationship abuse. Dr. Jeanne King's Full Biography

Knowing "It" from the Inside Out

But all of my knowledge about domestic abuse intervention doesn't come from the hundreds of books I have read or from the people I have helped. It also comes from the fact that I, too, lived the nightmare and carried the pain of intimate partner abuse.

So I know it from the inside out as well. And I know how hard it is to find professional help that truly understands the actual inner ache of domestic violence AND the principles of healing relationship abuse from within.

I truly understand how important it is for you to end and heal from intimate partner abuse: emotionally, physically and psychologically. And I know the benefits this will yield for you, for your spouse and for your marriage and family.

Jeffrey Clark, MA, LP

Our colleague Jeffrey Clark, a licensed psychologist in private practice in MN, has worked extensively treating domestic violence offenders for the past 12 years. He offers a transformational treatment model based on the integration of corrections and psychotherapeutic systems.

His extensive background in providing mental health treatment, as well as batterer's interventions, equips Mr. Clark with the expertise to effectively facilitate positive outcomes for abusers in the Intimate Partner Abuse Treatment program. Mr. Jeffrey Clark's Full Biography

End Intimate Partner Abuse in Your Relationship
before It Spirals Out of Control

The Intimate Partner Abuse Treatment Program is a finely tuned domestic violence treatment protocol, integrating a psychoeducational intervention promoting change for batterers and a psychotherapeutic intervention facilitating healing for domestic abuse survivors.

For the Batterer

The Intimate Partner Abuse Treatment Program provides men and women, who have been abusive in their intimate relationships, an opportunity to change their violent abusive behavior.

The intervention consists of education, support and therapeutic components that address the maladaptive use of power in relationships. The primary treatment goal is the development of new skills to facilitate non-violent and non-abusive behavioral responses with their intimate partner.

Be advised that psychoeducational models of treatment are not appropriate modalities for some batterers. For the vast majority of abusers, however, this psychoeducational protocol is an appropriate and effective treatment intervention.

For the Victim/Survivor

The Intimate Partner Abuse Treatment Program offers healing remedies for the domestic abuse survivor. It provides the victim with the awareness of what maintains the cycle of abuse and the strategies to interrupt the insidious cycle.

Healing from domestic abuse is paramount to the treatment. Survivors completing the intervention mend their psychological scars and the emotional pain from being battered, while changing the habits of victimization.

How the Intimate Partner Abuse Treatment Program Works

This intervention is specifically designed to interrupt the cycle of domestic abuse and heal the injuries caused by intimate partner violence. Unlike traditional marital therapy, each person engages in the therapeutic process individually.

This treatment is in no way an opportunity to hide behind the abuse dynamic nor manipulate the therapists to side with either party. Instead, each person is expected to utilize their individual therapeutic alliance to their own personal benefit as they take responsibility for their respective growth, healing and change.

What the Batterer Can Expect

While it is not possible to predict or guarantee outcomes for any therapeutic/counseling treatment, it is safe to say that men or women who take part in and successfully complete the Intimate Partner Abuse Treatment Program have a very good chance of undergoing significant and meaningful changes in their lives.

First and foremost, thinking and behavior that is abusive will change and be modified to the point that domestic abuse in all its forms will cease to exist. Domestic abuse will no longer fit or be an appropriate behavior in the participants' lives.

Patients who successfully complete the program develop and learn to utilize non-violent and non-abusive behavioral responses in all interactions with their intimate partners.

In addition, the program facilitates change that can lead to an improved sense of internal "quality of life." By eliminating thinking and behavior that is abusive, batterers not only improve their relationship with their intimate partner, they also significantly improve their relationship with themselves…and come to relate to the world in a more open, honest, genuine and compassionate manner.

When abusers undergo a successful treatment outcome, they experience an internal and qualitative shift that is transformative and often experienced as life changing in nature.

What the Abused Can Expect

The victim’s process is parallel and collaborative to their partner’s treatment, while individually transformative. The focus of their intervention is healing from the impact of abuse and interrupting the abuse dynamic.

The abused learns the subtle communication patterns of battering relationships, along with what supports and what interrupts the abuse dynamic. Their heightened awareness prevents reflexive habits of victimization.

The therapy often involves finding her/his own inner voice through a systematic process of psychotherapeutic inquiry. The patient develops the capacity to access their own internal truth, and cultivates the ability to express their feelings accurately and needs effectively.

Domestic abuse survivors participating in this therapeutic process heal the impact of interpersonal violation, build self-esteem and self-confidence, and grow to embrace that which they love in their intimate relationship.

The stress reduction and self-regulation healing component of their intervention helps reduce emotional distress and the symptoms of stress-related medical and psychological conditions, including migraine headaches, chronic pain, gastrointestinal disorders, insomnia, panic attacks, generalized anxiety and depression.

How to Inquire About or Start the
Intimate Partner Abuse Treatment Program

To schedule an initial session, please reserve your appointment:

Initial Consultation with Dr. King - 60 to 75 minutes

We will contact you within 24-48 hours with available appointment times. Your payment reserves your session. We look forward to helping you.

We do not give personalized professional advice by email to individuals with whom we have no prior experience. If you would like us to help, simply reserve your appointment directly from this website.

May there be peace and well-being for you and yours.

Kindest regards,

Jeanne King, Ph.D.
Partners in Prevention

PS. Intimate partner abuse does not end without intervention.