Do you need couples counseling?
Does your relationship feel stagnate, or stuck? Is it hard to imagine going forward sometimes? Do you ever feel like your partner doesn't get you? Do you worry about how your problems are affecting the kids? Does your marriage ever seem like a roller coaster of emotions?
Couples come to me for many reasons: betrayal, intimacy disorders, negotiating new boundaries, transitions, major changes in one or both individuals, grief & loss, communication struggles, and even separation or endings.
Relationships are difficult because they involve two individuals with unique temperaments, personalities, experiences, and family histories. These differences naturally come at odds with one another at times. Left unresolved, these conflicts and the feelings associated with them can lead to serious consequences including deteriorated physical health, an ugly divorce, depression, loss of sleep, addiction, loss of productivity at work, and perhaps worst of all: The direct impact on the kids.
How Couples Counseling can Help.
- Immediate relief by effectively processing intense emotions in safe ways
- Increased communication skills and tools for discussing your wants and needs.
- Heightened empathy, compassion, and better listening strategies.
- Transform your negative emotions such as rage, heartbreak, or disappointment through emotionally focussed therapy.
- More understanding towards one another.
- Tools to minimize impact of conflict on children.
- Assistance in knowing how to draw boundaries or express limits.
What you can expect.
- I Won't take sides. My belief is that you've both contributed to the challenges you're facing, and you can both be apart of the solutions.
- That you will be both comfortable AND challenged in our sessions.
- That you will learn strategies that emphasize both acceptance of who you are AND the need to change ineffective ways of relating.
- I will provide you honest and empathetic feedback.
I believe that the most courageous action a couple can take is to ask for help--seek support, and meet each other where they are...