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Therapist companion · Brian Kennedy, LMFT · 2026

The Love We Expect Before We Know We Expect It

Implicit relational expectations, protective adaptations, and the experience of something different

A clinical companion to Your Working Model of Love, exploring familiar attraction, unfinished longing, Welwood’s conscious relationship, receiving care, repair, and the therapist’s own inner work.

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