Couples Counseling
Are you thinking about a long-term commitment?
Do you want to iron out some wrinkles in your relationship?
Are you looking to take your relationship to the next level?
Committing to a long-term relationship is one of life’s most treasured experiences. Couples counseling can help you and your partner turn that momentous occasion into a loving, lasting relationship.
Some issues that bring couples to therapy are:
- Addiction/Partner Addiction Support
- Balance (Work/Life/Family)
- Blended Families
- Chronic Illness
- Divorce
- Extended Family
- Infidelity/Cheating
- Intimacy
- Mental Illness
- Pre-Marital/Readiness
- Pornography
- Sex
In couples counseling, we will likely bring up topics that you’ve discussed with your partner previously, as well as subjects you hadn’t considered before. This fresh perspective from an objective third party will uncover new details from your partner, as well as, you. This is also an excellent time to explore unexpected areas of disagreement and provide tools to handle possible future conflicts.
Talking to your partner about everything, no matter how awkward or uncomfortable, develops intimacy in a relationship. Couples counseling teaches better communication skills in how to make your voice and needs heard in a productive and positive way and how to truly listen, hear and understand what your partner is saying.
Couples counseling will also show you how to handle conflict in your relationship. When you live with someone, you will have arguments ranging from the very mundane to more serious issues. How you argue will be a part of the story of how you are as a couple. Learn how to de-escalate arguments and how to fight fairly, so you don’t cause emotional pain and scars from things you say that you can never take back.
If you are thinking about couples counseling and are not sure who to pick? Well, Me, of course.
Why me? Because, I offer Prepare & Enrich, a program designed for building healthy and strong relationship bonds. The Prepare & Enrich program offers an assessment tool that helps identify relationship strength and growth areas in 9 core categories. By using this tool to find the underlying dynamics that influence and motivate the relationship I can help you and your partner develop the necessary skills needed to maintain sustaining love.
All things can be improved, changed and bettered, with just a little support, no matter how big or small. In couples therapy, you will learn how to communicate your feelings and needs, and get what you want out of your relationship.
So, if these sound like you:
- You and your partner have unresolved arguments
- You and your partner never disagree about anything
- You feel like you’re always the one who has to compromise to keep the peace
- You’re concerned about how your partner’s financial situation will affect you as a married/committed couple
- You’re worried about losing affection or having a diminished sex life after marriage/long-term commitment
- You want to find healthier ways to resolve conflict
- You want to resolve religious or financial differences
- You want to define your partnership roles and expectations