Marriage Counseling / Couples Counseling
With education and training in the field Marriage and Family Therapy and certification as a PREPARE/ENRICH facilitator, I am interested in facilitating health in your most important relationship!
Do you struggle in your marriage / relationship to:
Communicate in ways that honor and respect one another and your relationship
Resolve present hurts and offenses promptly and effectively
Really and truly repair past huts and offenses so that they don’t become present hurts and offenses again and again?
Couples often struggle because they don’t know how to navigate conflict constructively. They didn’t have good role models for this in their families of origin.
Sometimes I hear clients say triumphantly, “My parents never fought!”
Other times I hear clients describe the horrific ways their parents destroyed one another with their abusive behaviors.
In both cases, when I ask if they ever saw their parents work through conflict constructively, they blink blankly at me.
…but instead to be able to effectively REPAIR relationship ruptures when they DO occur?
What if the goal ISN’T to avoid all relationship ruptures…
Couples tend to polarize in patterned ways, and they tend to have one or two themes that they argue about repeatedly.
When we can disrupt this polarizing and recognize the themes, we can change the way your relationship works!
The PREPARE/ENRICH program has been the #1 pre-marital and marriage assessment for over 40 years and continues to be one of the most researched assessment tools with over 1200 published articles supporting its validity and reliability.