"My husband and I approached Yulia after our first couple years of marriage to improve our communication and connection. We were both aware of our communication troubles but didn’t know what to do about it. What Yulia showed us is how our past experiences have shaped our current behavior and how to see each other’s best intentions. Further, how we are uniquely situated to help the other person. It was particularly beneficial to have an objective third party reflect back what each person said in order to interrupt some emotional and verbal dead ends we had unwittingly established as a couple. I was sometimes surprised to hear her champion both what my husband was really going through that I couldn’t see, and validate and understand everything I was going through that my husband unintentionally diminished. Yulia has a gift of hearing what someone means no matter how clumsily they say it. There was such a lack of judgment on Yulia’s part. Individually, she helped me see myself more clearly, more accurately as I am in the world and not how I fear I am in the world. My husband and I both listen better now and stand up for ourselves better in a way that isn’t attacking."