Family therapy is all about the connections that family members have with the each other and the group as a whole. Simple relational therapy or marriage therapy cannot cover the complex dynamics of a family, especially a family that is working in crisis mode and needs assistance. Many people wonder why a group counseling session [...]
There are steps that can be taken to help any couple save or better their relationship. The important thing is to know that you are not alone in having problems in your partnership. They can be solved and you can find happiness together if you are willing to work for it. Steps to Save a [...]
Couples in crisis often turn to marriage counseling because they have no plan and their current relationship is flailing without a rudder. One of the ways to make the most out of your counseling session is to enter into counseling with a plan for your sessions. You can mentally map out what your expectations are [...]
Pursing one-day marriage counseling isn’t a way to avoid the commitment of a long term marriage counseling or therapy in general. For some couples, one-day marriage counseling gives them the opportunity to address an issue that they have been facing and see if they can learn the tools and ways to change the way they [...]
Group therapy is a powerful tool that large corporations are increasingly relying on to better their teams’ performance and quality of career happiness. Group therapy is usually made up of groups of 5 to 8 individuals who meet with their therapist once a week to enhance and better their relationships. Not marriage therapy, but relational [...]
Online counseling has been highly beneficial to a new generation of individuals who are pressed for time, pressed for resources, and for whom the online world is simply an extension of their physical world. When looking for an online counselor, there are many options available and many different educational backgrounds, however, counseling still requires licensure [...]
Though many people use the terms interchangeable, there are some differences between counseling types when talking about a specific situation or group. Marriage Counseling Relationship Counseling Couples Counseling Marriage Counseling is probably the most talked about because it also denotes a legal joining that, if dissolved, has legal consequences. It is difficult for a marriage [...]
Emotional abuse comes in many forms and has various lasting effects. For some, it is abuse that has built up over years, with a partner or spouse constantly and consistently wearing your down until your self worth hinges only upon their opinion. Other times, it is a dangerous and dominating partner that uses social power [...]
Severe Anxiety Disorder can be a crippling medical condition without the correct help in managing it. Anxiety disorder is serious and, just as with any other medical condition, should have professional help in treating it because it is not ‘just in your head.‘ It is very real and there is very real help for it. [...]
For family groups that have found themselves seeking out the help they require in family counseling, the fears and anxieties about failing can be terrifying. Parents understandably fear losing their children or, as one parent put it, “screwing them up for life.” Sandy: Sol and I had been in marriage counseling before. Honestly, we wanted [...]
Pre-marital counseling has provided millions of couples with the help and support that they needed to begin their marriage on the right track, and with the tools to help keep the marriage that way. Instead of thinking of pre-marital counseling as admitting there is a problem before you tie the knot, understand that it is [...]
Working with your spouse to grow and maintain a healthy relationship is one of the most important gifts you can give yourself and your loved ones. A healthy relationship is one that will enable you to withstand very difficult times in your life, and one that will also enable you to get the very most [...]
Negative thinking is a powerful deterrent to a happy marriage. Constant negative thinking takes its toll not only on the person having those thoughts but on the people around them in their daily lives who find themselves under the onslaught of negative thoughts. Negative thinking is also a major indicator of someone with anxiety disorder. [...]
If you have been wondering if it is time for marriage counseling then it probably is. Experiencing a rough patch in a marriage is common, but if your troubles have gone on long enough to make you wonder if professional help can assist you than it is most likely time to look for that assistance. [...]
The hard work and dedication involved in saving your marriage through marriage counseling is an often talked about subject, but less attention is paid to the humorous side of counseling, which is just as important an ingredient. As any couple will tell you, the ability to laugh together can transform a moment into something shared. [...]
When people enter into couples counseling, they often do so under the assumption that it will be a “warm and fuzzy” experience with a kindly old counselor who, like a relationship magician, will find that simple key to fix all their problems and they will live happily ever after. It’s not quite like that, though [...]
Terms of endearment are words or phrases used to address or describe a person or animal for which the speaker feels love or affection. Terms of endearment are used for a variety of reasons, such as parents addressing their children and lovers addressing each other. From movies to literature to everyday life, when someone calls [...]
For many clients who seek out individual therapy, it is only after having suffered for many years with the pain and often guilt and shame of enduring their particular disorder. Struggling to solve the problems alone, they find that eventually the problems begin to grow and affect other areas of their lives, no matter how [...]
It is no secret that most of us have gotten excited about a new plan to make ourselves better and start off with all the right tools, the right enthusiasm and the right mindset. Then something happens along the way. Whether we lose our focus, lose our drive or simply lose the desire for the [...]
Every time Hollywood produces a new movie or show based on the miraculous abilities of a vacation to help heal a rift in a marriage, couples in trouble start booking their resort stays. The problems in the relationship don’t heal, even with a weekend of spa treatments, but with the media touting the fun, sexy [...]
Couples therapy is often as much about understanding the body language of the couple as it is about what they are saying. The body is a powerful tool and, unless you‘ve had super-spy training, it does not lie. The slight pause, the narrowing of the eyelids, the lack of eye contact and the withdrawal from [...]
There are always “treatments” and “secrets” to a happy life being touted in self-help and mass-market medias. They key is to know ahead of time that there are no ultimate secrets or quick fixes to the complex issues that govern our lives. The Huffington Post recently published an article that was written in response to [...]
Marriage counselors don’t always have the gift of time. While many situations lend themselves to long-term counseling and the time and space to heal years of damage, in premarital counseling couples often have a “no-go” date set in mind before they walk away. When Darnell, an experienced marriage counselor, met Liane and Stuart, he knew [...]
For many couples, marriage counseling is sought out as a tool to help them reconnect and really see each other again. So many couples find themselves ignoring each other and moving on with their lives individually even though they are married to and living with their spouses. For some marriages, however, the problem isn’t in [...]
Relationships, especially a marriage, require a certain amount of trust and respect in order to function successfully long term. One of the elements in that respect and trust is the ability to value your partner’s thoughts and feelings and to give them support when they require it. What happens, however, when your spouse is at [...]
Lisa and Danyal each had their own expectation when they entered into marriage. It came as no surprise that each also had their own expectations when they entered into marriage counseling. After years of what they each referred to as a marriage of friendship that had lost all passion, they had hoped for a quick [...]
The change of seasons usually brings about a shift in mood for many couples in marriages with different viewpoints on the Holiday season. During the Spring and Summer, these couples are able to relax and enjoy each other and the relationship on their best terms, but as soon as the cooler weather hits, it brings [...]
Depression is a major factor in unhealthy and unhappy relationships. While many couples feel that the depression was caused by an unhappy marriage, through counseling and discussion it is often found that depression, as a mental health condition, began before the problems in the marriage and served to compound them, spiraling both issues downward. Depression [...]
Anxiety Disorder is a condition that is commonly discussed in medical and mental health offices alike because of the ways in which their symptoms and backgrounds intersect. Many people with Anxiety Disorder find themselves in medial offices because they are anxious over health issues, and many people in mental health offices find themselves in medial [...]
Older couples who have weathered the storms of multi-decade relationships are often asked for advice on “how they made it.” While no two couples are alike, and advice that will work for one couple may not work for another, there are some common themes among elderly couples who have been happily married for 30,40 sometimes [...]
