HVL CONNECT RELATIONSHIP COACHING
Online (Limited Availability)
For the Couple
Who's Tried Everything
I Know What It Feels Like When the Distance Won't Close.
Not just from working with hundreds of couples. From my own life. My first marriage ended. I went to get help. And what I found wasn't just how to manage conflict better — I found the pattern underneath. The thing I'd been doing in relationships since long before I had any idea I was doing it. That's what sent me into this work. Not a class. A crisis.
Danté Yigael
Meet
I've worked with hundreds of couples and individuals on relationship patterns — the kind that don't shift from a weekend retreat or a book or even a few months of good therapy. The ones that are older than your relationship.
My approach combines coaching with clinical tools. I'm trained in Relational Life Therapy under Terry Real, Emotionally Focused Therapy, attachment theory, and a few other frameworks that have real research behind them. I use all of it, but I'm not dogmatic about any of it. What I care about is what's true for the specific people in front of me and what's going to help them change.
I'm direct. This isn't the kind of coaching where I mostly listen and then reflect your words back at you. I'm going to name what I see. Sometimes that's uncomfortable. Usually it's a relief.
I work primarily with couples. I also work with individuals who want to understand how their relational patterns formed and why they keep showing up.
Why Coaching + Therapy
Meet Rebekah Yigael, LCSW
Most practices make you choose.
You see a relationship coach, or you see a couples therapist. If the work calls for something the coach can't do, you get a referral. You start over. You re-explain everything to someone new.
At HVL Connect, you don't have to do that. My wife, Rebekah Yigael (LCSW), is a licensed clinical social worker and is part of the practice. If the work calls for deeper therapeutic support — trauma processing, individual therapy, clinical assessment — that's available here. Same practice. Someone who already knows your history.
I've never seen another practice set up this way. It's one of the reasons HVL exists.
Rebekah Yigael is a licensed clinical social worker with a background in trauma and individual therapy. She's part of the HVL Connect practice and provides clinical therapy for individuals and couples where that's the right fit.
Coaching and clinical therapy are both available here — integrated, not referred out.
The Approach
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The primary framework I work from is Relational Life Therapy, developed by therapist Terry Real. It maps current relationship patterns to early adaptive strategies — the things you did to survive emotionally as a child that now run your adult relationships without your permission.
Beyond RLT, I draw on Emotionally Focused Therapy, attachment-based approaches, and work from developmental psychology. Every method I use has a track record. None of them is magic.
Relational Life Therapy (RLT) — primary framework
Developed by Terry Real. Built around the insight that most relationship pain comes from survival blueprints each person developed in childhood — and that those blueprints can be identified, named, and changed. This is the foundation of Danté's couples work. Every session is guided by this structure.
The Gottman Method
One of the most extensively researched approaches to couples work ever developed. Built on identifying the behaviors that reliably predict relationship breakdown — and replacing them with the habits of lasting partnership.
Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT)
Gets to the underlying emotional cycles driving conflict, not just the surface behaviors. Particularly powerful when combined with RLT's framework.
Attachment Theory
How your early experiences of connection shaped the way you give and receive love as an adult — and how to work with that, not against it.
Supporting tools
NLP, Mindfulness, CBT, Positive Psychology, and others drawn on as each client's situation calls for them. No single framework fits every person. Methods are never applied robotically.
You're in the Right Place If...
💕 You're in a relationship that still matters to you — even when it's hard to remember why
💕 You recognize yourself in the pursuer-distancer cycle and you're ready to step out of it
💕 You want an approach that's direct and structured, not open-ended and indefinite
💕 You've tried other things and they haven't stuck — you're open to something more precise
💕 You value honesty more than validation — you want someone who will tell you what they actually see
💕 You're ready to look honestly at your own patterns, not just your partner's
💕 You're a single person who keeps ending up in the same situations and wants to understand why at the root
If we're not the right fit, we'll tell you and point you toward someone who is. We'd rather lose the booking than waste your time.
If you want to know whether this is the right fit, the best place to start is a 30-minute consultation.
