Couples Therapy

Couples counseling is a way to improve communication, enhance understanding and build positive skill sets to stay healthy and happy in the relationship.

Loving and committing to another person and choosing to share a life together are monumental decisions. It takes love, truth, respect, openness, humor and hard work to create and maintain a successful relationship. Marriages need to be tended to like gardens and nourished continually. Over time you will notice the natural ebb and flow in your relationship. The task is to appreciate and enjoy the good times and mindfully and diligently work through the challenges. When the difficulties endure for too long and you find yourselves disconnecting, it is time to seek help. When one person begins to feel dissatisfied, unhappy and unsure about the relationship, or communication stops, seek help. And when there is abusive behavior like emotional, physical or sexual abuse, an active addiction or an act of betrayal, seek help. There is hope if you choose to work with your problems.

People in relationship are either “moving towards connection or are distancing”. Couples counseling is a way to improve communication, enhance understanding and build positive skill sets to stay healthy and happy in the relationship. Marriage therapy is an excellent platform to receive expert support and guidance.

Family Therapy

Family therapy focuses on understanding the individuals and the interaction patterns within their family.

All families undergo stress and experience conflicts. Patterns of stress can wreak havoc on a family as a whole and dysfunctional communication and patterns in living can result. Sometimes an individual in the family may have a mental health or behavioral issue that affects everyone and is the reason for the family seeking therapy. Parents will be challenged by the behaviors of their children and teens and may become stymied on how to discipline.

Family therapy focuses on understanding the individuals and the interaction patterns within their family. The individual and family needs are identified within the context of the family as well as functional and dysfunctional patterns of relating. Family therapy increases awareness in and among family members, enhances connection, teaches healthier ways of interacting, and offers constructive guidance in solving problems.

Enrichment family therapy focuses on furthering healthier patterns of interacting and can help families establish “family goals” that embrace and respect all the individuals. The Family Mission Statement is a 6 weeks session series that helps families clarify and define their principles, values, morals, and the activities, routines and traditions they wish to live by.