Relationships don’t come with instructions.
Only 25% of people naturally have the skills associated with healthy, successful relationships. At Empowered Relationships, we believe that everyone deserves love, respect, and connection. Our mission is to teach parents, couples, and individuals effective skills that foster fulfilling and resilient relationships.
Intimate Relationships. Parent-Teen Relationships. Family Relationships. We are wired to find and maintain connections, but it isn’t always easy. Parents of Teenagers know how challenging it is to maintain a relationship with a young person striving for their independence. Individuals in partnerships are often overwhelmed by normal challenges and worry that their struggles are evidence of a bigger problem.
All relationships tend to have similar needs and similar pitfalls. Empowered Relationships can teach you how to improve your relationships.
Empowered Relationships offers online and in-person experiences to help you confidently navigate challenges and enrich your relationships.
Cracking the code Live workshops in Vancouver, Washington
Join DJ Hilley, MSED, LMHC for two 2-hour sessions exploring the developing mind, mastering connection and relationship skills with teens, and using effective influence to build them for a successful future while preserving and even enhancing your relationships now.
Secrets of relationship success Workshop
Join DJ Hilley, LMHC and Dina Brothers, DO for an evening at Bleu Door Bakery featuring tasty snacks and drinks along with developing plans for the groundwork of a successful and connected intimate relationship.
Cracking the code Of parent-teen Relationships Online workshop
Teens don’t come with instruction manuals, but you can learn from therapist DJ Hilley, MSEd, LMHC, who has nearly 20 years of experience working with teenagers and parents.
Empowered Relationships content is created by DJ Hilley, MSEd, LMHC, a therapist with nearly 20 years of experience working with kids, teens, adults, couples and families.
DJ is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor in the State of Washington, having earned his Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Minnesota, Morris in 2003 and his Masters of Science in Education degree from Indiana University in 2007. He is also a Certified Level 1 Bullies to Buddies Trainer and a Certified Sex Therapy Informed Professional.
DJ has extensive training in relationship methods, attachment, and interpersonal neurobiology. He has trained personally with the creator of the Pragmatic Experiential Method for Improving Relationships, Brent Atkinson, PhD as well as Bullies to Buddies creator and Kalman Bullying Institute founder, Izzy Kalman, NCSP.
For more than a decade, DJ has created and led educational workshops and professional trainings, including an in-person version of the Cracking the Code of Parent-Teen Relationships Workshop, Secrets of Relationship Success Seminar, student services staff and parent organization trainings, and student assemblies.
DJ Hilley, MSEd, LPC
Founder of Empowered Relationships