Couples and Relationship Counseling

Introduction: I am an solo counselor and therapist who specializes in helping married couples, cohabiting couples, and family groups manage and/or resolve relationship issues. Marriage and Couples Counseling All Couples and Marriages require work and are bound to face challenges of all types. Simple, everyday stressors like a lack of sleep or a cold can strain an intimate relationship. But major sources of stress like: money problems, addictions, health concerns, family life cycle events, and intimacy issues, may threaten the stability of the relationship. As long as each partner is willing to address the issues at hand and participate in developing solutions, most relationship problems are manageable. However, when challenges are left unaddressed, tension mounts, poor habits develop, and the health and longevity of the relationship is in jeopardy. The more common sources of marital and relationship problems include: money, child rearing, stress, busy schedules, poor communications, intimacy issues, and bad habits. When such problems start to overwhelm your marriage, a counselor can be highly useful to find the perspective that motivates cooperation and problem solving. As your counselor, I can work with issues around mental illness and psychological distress within the context of your family. I can provide counseling services in several additional areas including premarital counseling, relationship counseling and separation and divorce counseling. I can work with issues surrounding addiction, finances, health challenges, old relationship habits, communication problems, family life cycle events and the stressors that undermine the stability and security of a relationship. Fortunately, most relationship problems can be resolved, made better or at least made manageable in the short run. Even if only one partner is consciously trying to change their behavior, such change can bring a shift in the dynamic of the relationship, which can bring positive results. Brief Solution Focused Counseling: Sometimes I counsel couples or partners using brief or solution focused couples therapy. This style of therapy mostly focuses on the 'here and now' and helps the couple work to develop new coping strategies that help each member behave more adaptively in the face of fears, anxieties, and avoidance behaviors. Marriage counseling or marital therapy can refer to either/or some combination of Couples and Solution Focused Therapy.