Marriage counseling that Heals in Lake Shore, MD. Restore Your Relationship.

Are you dissatisfied with your marriage? Do you feel like your relationship has become dull and routine? I can help you to rediscover the things that first attracted you to your spouse and deal with the things that drive you crazy about him or her. Call me today.

Couples, Families and Relationships Meet with a caring clinician to guide you through the difficult and common pitfalls that so many couple struggle with. Learn how to avoid negative communication patterns, learn your couples language, learn healthy ways to communicate

After the spontaneous enchantment of “falling in love”, you and your mate go through predictable stages that require adjustment or result in stress. Find growing harmony and happiness by learning to negotiate for what you most deeply need and want.

Some of our most delicate and important relationships involve our identity as a couple or a family. Like a waterbed where one person's movement can greatly effect all the others present, I believe that this holds true in couple and family dynamics. I'm here to help you.

Nothing is more painful or draining than difficulties in our family relationships. As you learn to understand yourself and your loved one better, interactive therapy can help you work together to reduce defensiveness and create the closeness you have always wanted.

A healthy marriage takes work. Therapy will reach the heart of the issues and begin the process of restoration. Let's get started.

Carol utilizes the most most effective therapeutic approach to help couples better understand their negative patterns of interaction that have been hijacking their relationship for years. After understanding those patterns we work to deepen the connection further.

I offer a supportive, safe environment for couples and families to repair as well as strengthen their bond.

I've found the best approach is the communications model. This approach begins with the assumption that problems begin when couples stop communicating. Poor communications can take the form of distorted messages or simply the lack of any message at all.

I work in a deep, collaborative, and active way to help couples begin to see how each member contributes to the conflict. Once we see, we can systemtically help each member do things differently to achieve greater clarity about the relationship.

Every marriage or intimate romantic partnership has its own dynamic style. A couple can better understand and manage their "dance" with the help of a professional counselor, healing dialogues, and a calm, thoughtful awareness of temperament types, and love languages.

Couples have times when they don't function well, the relationship begins to have self-reinforcing, maladaptive patterns thus "negative interaction cycles". I use the Imago Therapy approach to help couples make the necessary changes to create positive interactions.