Great Couples Counseling in Butner, NC. Therapy to heal relationships.

My practice is focused on couples and is 98% couples. Whether you seek help for a relationship in trouble, or to ensure the health and success of a relationship doing well, counseling can help. My style with couples is direct and interactive. Clients describe me as refreshingly straightforward. The goal is to build positive equity between you to help you weather the stresses and challenges that life tends to send our way.

At Lepage Associates, we believe many issues couples face can be resolved by addressing the issues on two levels. The first level is identifying the problem, brainstorming solutions, and trying out options that can work for both partners. The deeper level usually involves understanding what about the issue is important to each partner and communicating this understanding to each other. Your couple’s therapist at Lepage Associates can help you on both of these levels in order to reach goals like increasing your connection, improving communication, recovering from infidelity, increasing sexual satisfaction, and improving conflict resolution skills. We believe each partner has contributed to problem....

Our therapists are trained in the most effective methods of couples counseling that ensures you are getting the right help to improve your relationship and feel equipped to navigate the future together. As mental health professionals, we believe it is vital to choose a treatment approach based on each individuals unique situation and preferences and to develop a clear and coherent plan of action early on in the treatment process to ensure the best outcomes for the relationship. We strive to be as transparent and collaborative as possible. We want our couples to be in control of their own treatment

My approach to couples counseling involved educating couples on empirically identified factors that contribute to a healthy relationship. Couples identify their important emotional needs and what their partner does that causes unhappiness. They commit to meeting one another's emotional needs and to stop being the cause of one another's unhappiness. Couples are encouraged to spend several hours each week giving one another undivided attention to overcome causes of unhappiness and in meeting emotional needs. Structured assignments are given to facilitate this process with excellent results.

Couples counseling and sex therapy are specialty areas of mine. I work with people in various stages of relationships, tackling a variety of concerns and dynamics including relational and sexual issues, infidelity, desire changes, lack of excitement, changes in the relationship, and many others. Having an objective third party helps couples find more clarity in their direction forward. I work with each couple to better identify the problematic patterns or behaviors in their relationship as this can be difficult to navigate without an objective third party. I help improve overall emotional and sexual intimacy, and provide clients with strategies they can use throughout their relationship.

I work with couples in the context of eating disorder support and recovery, in order for spouses to be able to support their partners who are struggling with eating disorders and eating issues. I work hard to educate spouses that may have trouble understanding the illness. I also work with couples to improve communication and understanding as they navigate the recovery process.

I believe relationships are critical for our best functioning. Good relationships can help us to soar and poor relationships can tear us down. Sometimes things can become difficult in a relationship and both people feel stuck. It can helpful to participate in couples counseling to help both of you decide what you are missing and how you can have a positive and loving relationship. I will work with you to understand what are your relationship blocks and how you can move forward in a healthier, more satisfying fashion.

All couples at one point or another experience difficulties in their relationship. Whether married, about to get married, cohabitating, lesbian, gay, etc. all couples eventually face challenges in their relationship. Infatuation and admiration subside and being vulnerable with each other feels unsafe. However, this is also where real love in the relationship can be nurtured and kept alive. I work with couples struggling in their relationship on improving communication and working to understand each other's realistic wants and needs better while restoring emotional safety in the relationship.

Using a combination of Gottman Method Couples Therapy as well as Sue Johnson's Emotionally Focused Couples therapy, I will help you and your partner identify your problem areas and negative cycles that keep you stuck and support your relationship moving back into a pattern of ease and intimacy. We will support increased core emotion expression, identification of each individual's needs, breaking down old negative habits, and reconstructing new habits that will keep your connection strong for the long term. Let's discuss your needs today in a free consultation.