Great Couples Counseling in Northdale, FL. Therapy to heal relationships.

Couples counseling with me is a safe, inviting space to deepen your connection, resolve conflicts, and strengthen your bond. I bring a warm, modern approach that focuses on understanding each partner’s unique needs while fostering open communication and trust. Whether you’re navigating challenges or simply seeking to enrich your relationship, I’ll guide you with compassion and tailored strategies to rebuild harmony and intimacy. Together, we’ll create a roadmap for growth and connection that feels authentic and meaningful.

Do you have the same argument over and over again? Are you feeling alone, misunderstood, or disrespected in your marriage? I can help you work through these issues through couples counseling, and help you break the unhealthy patterns that aren’t working. Renewing trust, improving communication, and regaining the spark are all possible. Being married myself, I know that marriage is work, and that love is a choice. But even intelligent, loving couples sometimes need support. You deserve better than what’s happening now. If you’re willing to put in the work, I can help. Our mission is to help you escape the cages that hold you back and become the lion you were created to be.

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.

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.

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.

The frustration of feeling misunderstood by a partner can lead to intense emotions and disconnection. In our sessions, will work together to increase awareness of your needs and dig deep to understand where those needs come from. Through that deeper understanding of yourself and your partner, intimacy and connection feels more natural and safe. As your therapist, I will help you communicate in ways you each can hear and strive to provide a safe, non-judgemental space where couples can share honestly and openly.

I am a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) with years of training and experience helping couples to navigate the most painful and difficult chapter in their relationships. I will guide you with compassion, empathy, and a skill set that is born in working with couples across the country in their healing journeys. I have been featured in Forbes, the Knot, and other leading media outlets discussing relationships, intimacy, and communication. I’d love to connect with you and your partner about the unique circumstances that you are facing and how I might be able to help.

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.

We are passionate about and skilled with helping couples to repair and strengthen their relationship by utilizing techniques from evidence-based practices such as Emotionally-Focused Couples Therapy and the Gottman Method. These techniques help get to the heart of the matter to increase relationship satisfaction and heal emotional injuries that may have occurred throughout the relationship or as a result of previous trauma. Individual therapy for each partner is also recommended as best practice for helping each person to work through their personal traumas.

Karen utilizes a strengths based approach when working with couples. She is also a level one trained therapist in the Gottman Method of marriage counseling. Most couples entered a relationship because they appreciated and valued something in their partner. Over time, stresses and difficulties sometimes cloud a couple's vision of what drew them together. Karen's approach is to help couples rekindle their friendship and appreciation for each other, including their differences. She provides couples an opportunity to refine important relationships skills like healthy communication, problem solving, and conflict resolution skills.

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

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 conflict ususally results from each person not dealing with his/her own damaged emotions. I work with each person bringing healing to his/her soul (mind and emotions). Once a good degree of healing has taken place, the couple is better able to understand each other and communicate on a healthy level. Also, I offer temperament analysis which is called Creation Therapy. This enable me to share with you the unique creation genetically coded into you at the time of your conception. CT identifies your strengths and your weaknesses. CT identifies your needs and how to get them met. Couples by coming to understand each other's temperament are better able to relate. Contact me today!

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.

Build a strong, resilient, flourishing relationship. Conflicts are a natural part of being in a long-term , intimate relationship. Learning to turn destructive interactions into creative tension is critical for maintaining or discovering healthy bonds between each other. Couples counseling is an opportunity to identify and address the common pitfalls to destructive relationships and create patterns of healing and growth.

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