Great Couples Counseling in Jasmine Estates, FL. Therapy to heal relationships.

Balancing life’s multitude of stresses can be a significant challenge. It might involve dealing with the demands of a career, the unique complexities of raising children, the weight of managing finances, facing major loss or the emotional trials of facing retirement. Betrayal, realization of childhood trauma or experiencing the fading of the initial sparks of a your relationship can worsen things. These combined pressures can exert tremendous strain, on any relationship. This can create numerous emotions or impasses. I work alongside you to address current challenges and explore deeper issues. I equip you to navigate complexity and grow as a closer, stronger couple.

Couples therapy is one of my specialties. I utilize the evidence based therapy "Emotionally Focused Therapy" (EFT). The emphasis of this therapy is for a couple to learn how to manage conflict, be supportive of one another's dreams and goals, and to feel connected. The idea of connection is one which couples identify with and immediately endorse as a mutual goal. While I may point out individual areas for improvement, I am always on the side of the couple, not one individual over the other. I want to see the couple succeed. Having a partner in life is meant to be a joyful, rewarding journey.

Let me guess. One partner feels alone and like they don't matter and the other feels they are always being criticized and can't get anything right. The more one asks for the other to show up, the more the partner disappears physically and emotionally. You both bicker and fight and the idea of sitting and just hanging out seems elusive, if not impossible. Something like this? Often we crave connection but are blocked by the pain and the history that gets in the way. Small fights about little things become battles that highlight our struggle to have our basic relational needs met. I can help you get under the bickering to the parts crying out for connection- to an enriching relationship.

Dr.John Knight ,PhD, LMHC www.coastalcarecounseling.com APA Certified Relationship Specialist PhD emphasis in Family ,Marital and Domestic Relations Counseling Psychology Dr.Knight has helped many couples find relief from relationship difficulties including poor communication, anger issues, infidelity, intimacy, codependency and cross-cultural issues. His empathic style is warm, receptive, and direct, helping people reach their true relationship potential through a step-by-step approach for change. His goal as an APA Certified relationship therapist is to help people have sustaining and satisfying relationships.

What are the most common couples' issues? If you are thinking "communication, conflict, sex, money, child rearing" you are correct. However, most therapists will go after the symptom on each side of the couple fence thinking that the way to effective change is by getting each party to "work" on their respective "issue". Many times the parties don’t agree but comply. Imagine if you could align the unconscious brains of a couple and stop the "working on your issues" part that has become so popular in therapy settings? Contact kevin@kevinflemingphd.com to learn how! Or call 877-606-6161. DR. FLEMING'S NEW RELATIONSHIP/COUPLES INTENSIVES. www.kevinflemingphd.com/marriage-couples-retreats.php

Couples work is unique and interesting. What a lot of people don't understand it that of course you have different viewpoints - you are in different bodies, have different life experiences and are actually looking at different views! Many times the problem is simply communication: no matter how many times you tell your partner what you need, they just don't hear it. That is where I come in- helping people to get heard and also to hear clearly! In this way there can be a softening and a coming together, with both partners feeling loved and understood. You don't have to continue fighting, and counseling doesn't mean you failed. It is a gift you give your relationship to help nurture it.

Are you feeling lonely in your own marriage? Disrespected? Misunderstood? It doesn’t have to stay this way. Far too often, high-achieving men feel disrespected and lonely within their own marriages. As a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, I help men and their wives to rediscover the incredible value they bring to the marriage, and help them negotiate a hopeful path forward. I will help you identify destructive patterns in your marriage and provide healthier alternatives. I’ll help you improve communication, learn to fight fair, and increase understanding and connection. While it’s not easy work, there is hope. If given the chance, I would be honored to help you fight for your marriage.

In my work with couples, I view the relationship through the lens of attachment theory. The person we chose to be our partner, may become our "secure home base" as your relationship grows to be a healthy partnership to celebrate, depend on and lean on through the ups and downs of life. I view couples counseling as working with three entities: both partners and the relationship. The relationship you both share becomes my focus as we all collaborate together to bring forth the best relationship you can imagine. I look forward to working with you both. I use EMDR, Emotion Focused Therapy and Expressive Arts in my work with Couples.

Many couples and intimate partners, at some time in their relationship, may contemplate marriage. We utilize relationship and marital expectation assessment tools geared to help couples determine their compatibility. We also provide relationship coaching based on proven systematic and empirically based approaches. Family Systems Theory constitues a major part of my theraputic approach. As such, our clients benefit from a much-needed relationship and marriage assessments, thereby providing them with evidenced based and cutting edge psycho-educational counseling on interpersonal communication, conflict resolution, parenting, blended-families, gender-differences, sexuality, intimacy, fidelity a