Great Couples Counseling in Austell, GA. Therapy to heal relationships.

Summer is a Certified Imago Relationship Therapist (CIRT) and a member of Georgia Regional Imago Therapists (GRITS). Imago, which is the Latin word for image, is a highly effective method of couples' counseling. Summer is passionate about helping couples restore and improve their connection to one another, especially challenging in times of transition or crisis. A healthy marriage is what we envision when we get married, but too often we don't get the help we need when we are stuck in unhealthy patterns of relating. Or, just as often, unhealthy patterns of not relating. Summer encourages couples to reconnect in therapy, providing a safe, compassionate and challenging place to do this.

I help couples looking to create the relationship they desire. Together, we'll go through a process using Gottman principles to explore unhealthy patterns, communication styles, past traumas, and intimacy. Couples experience rough patches, my goal is to help couples come out on the other side of the rough patch stronger and more in sync than ever before.

"We mistakenly assume that if our partners love us they will react and behave in certain ways ~ the ways we react and behave when we love someone." - John Grey I've been married for 40 years and fully understand the pitfalls and detours of committed relationships. With advanced training in Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), I'm dedicated to helping couples find their way back to each other. I help you stop the dance of blame, distancing, and mutual hurt. We'll work on skill-building, adjusting expectations, learning new communication techniques, and healing deep wounds and betrayal.

Relationships can be beautiful but they take work from both parties. Trust, openness, respect, transparency and building healthy communication skills are very important. Sometimes we lose communication somewhere along the way and having a mediator to help both parties see the other persons point of view and hold each one accountable on next steps in the healing process can be very helpful to reconnect and bond your relationship again.

I enjoy helping couples stay married when at all possible. Relationships take self-awareness, compromise and a shared vision. To often people rush into marriage without really knowing each other and then discover along the way that they only have 80% of what they want instead of celebrating the 80% they focus on the 20% they don't have. Understanding each others differences and limitations will help you navigate a healthy marriage. Shame and guilt are very destructive. Learning how to forgive yourself and move forward by processing your past relationships can help you understand your present relationship. This can be very important in stopping the cycle of dysfunctional relationships.

You and your partner feel disconnected. The same fights and conflict seem to keep coming back, over and over. You want to feel closer to them, but its a struggle right now. Let me help. Through our work together, you'll begin to be able to identify the cycle of conflict that the two of you fall into. Once we identify the pattern, we can begin to develop more helpful ways of relating to each other. Connection and intimacy are possible in your relationship.

I enjoy helping couples who want to restore and renew their relationships. Living and growing through life together can be challenging, and life situations can strain even the best of relationships. I love to help couples strengthen and improve their intimacy, recover from disconnection, and restore emotional bonds. Eighty percent of couples struggle in their sexual relationship at some point. Many don’t get any help and their relationships suffer and deteriorate. Working out issues in intimacy can be the inroads to a deeper, richer, and more satisfying relationship. I try to create a relaxed environment where couples feel comfortable talking about that aspect of your relationship.

No safer place. No better time. God created us for relationship. The more intimate the relationship, the more work it takes to keep it healthy. I can help you work through the inevitable challenges that arise utilizing therapy techniques designed to strengthen communication and listening skills, which is often the root issue. I am a certified administrator of the well-respected Prepare-Enrich couples assessment tool, which can be used for couples who are seriously dating or have been married for a long while. Once communication is strengthened, the couple can better work through the issues they may have together.

Are you and your significant other at a place in your relationship where you are feeling stuck and unable to move forward? Come work through your differences in a place that assists in opening the lines of communication and coaches you through healthy ways of resolving conflict. With your dedication, flexibility, and hard work, your relationship can become what you've always hoped that it would be. Together we can work on the outward areas of your relationship and your friendship, as well as the intimate and private areas of your relationship allowing you to enjoy all aspects of a good and healthy relationship.

Underwood Counseling & Consultation, PLLC welcomes couples who desire to improve their partnership. Couples therapy can involve partnerships, pre-marital, marriage, relationship dissolution, divorce, or coparenting, to name a few. Our goal is to help couples navigate towards healthy role definitions, communication, collaborative problem solving, parenting alignment, intimacy, & expressions of vulnerability. We are trained in the use of Gottman therapy & IMAGO relationship therapy. We look forward to being a part of your journey.

Relationships take work, commitment, sacrifice, communication, and compromise. None of this is easy! And when you and your partner don't see eye to eye or have differing values, this becomes even more stressful and frustrating. I can help facilitate open communication between you and your partner to help you understand the root of your problems, how they are negatively affecting your relationship, and how to work through and resolve them. It's a process and takes time, but worth the effort if the relationship is important to you.

Many people secretly believe that their opinion is always "right." Then they enter into a relationship and this deep-seated belief is challenged by a partner or spouse who also secretly believes that his/her opinion is always right. This causes major problems. That's where therapy comes into play. I believe that the bedrock of couples counseling is clear and effective communication. For some odd reason, it seems as though communication is a lost art, leaving couples feeling frustrated and alone. People feel as though they're not being heard and their needs aren't being met. I help couples understand each other deeply and articulate their feelings to one another effectively.

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