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

I very much enjoy working with couples, and see couples counseling as a very active, dynamic process. After quickly helping a couple to identify their particular problem areas, we begin to work together toward finding solutions, improving communication patterns, building intimacy, and learning what our partner needs to feel loved, I often encourage couples with "homework assignments", in order to reinforce new information learned within the session.

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.

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.

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.

Couples need guidance before entering into a marriage commitment.Counseling before marriage is becoming a necessary approach for a sucessful marriage.Answering questions of approaching a new life together is very important.Stressing the obligations of the man and woman from a biblical perspective is essential to a sucessful fulfilled marriage.Christian Counseling can give this direction for your marriage.

Relationship issues can take a toll on us individually. In couples therapy I focus on the partners and their dynamics and the couple as individuals. I believe in order to have a harmonious long lasting relationship we each must work on being healthy and whole ourselves in order to be able to offer this into our lives as a unit. Together I can help you find tools and skills to help you and your partner lead a happy and healthy life.

Couples Therapy with me is a journey from feeling alienated to emotional engagement. It can help you be less defensive and more open. It can help you to see the dance of your communication pattern and change the steps. It can help you stop blaming and to see how you both make it hard for the other to be caring. You can learn to stop focusing on each other’s flaws and discover your own fears and longings. You can move from isolation to connectedness by learning how to speak from your heart.

I provide couples therapy, whether married or not. I focus on getting the couple to understand and resolve conflicts and improve the quality of their relationship. I provide couples the tools to communicate more effectively, negotiate differences, problem solve and find more satisfaction in the relationship. The length of counseling depends on the issues present and the goals the couple wants to achieve.

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.

Are you struggling in your relationship with communication, conflict resolution, sexual problems, infidelity, intimacy problems, or a potential separation or divorce? Do you fear your marriage is over, but want to make it work? I'd love to hear your story and help. I'm a special type of counselor because I specialize in working with couples. I help couples experience more peace, more connection, and greater passion in their relationship. My education, research, and experience have all been centered on couple relationships. I’ve successfully helped hundreds of couples headed toward divorce fall in love again. Visit my website today to schedule an appointment. I'd love to hear your story.

Couples present into therapy together for a variety of reasons; loss of intimate connection, moving through some sort of family transition, desire to communicate more effectively, pre-marital and pre-engaged couples, marriage enrichment, marriage in crisis, recovering from infidelity, adapting to the empty nest, conflict resolution, exploring forgiveness & reconciliation, investigating intimacy issues (Emotional, Spiritual & Physical), pursuing oneness, recovering adventure, overcoming anger & reactivity, demystifying power struggles, growing spiritually, and becoming a healing influence in one another's life.

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.

We write about it, sing and dream about it: relationships. However, with a 60% divorce rate and an even higher emotional divorce statistic tells us the real story: marriages are in trouble. Many couples live in a dungeon of isolation and hurt that can be incredibly painful yet so often the advice given is: "stick it out". While we strongly affirm the importance of the marriage commitment, we also affirm that there can be more, much more. There are answers and there is healing for broken relationships: Grace-oriented, Biblical counseling is the answer.