How Do You Choose Your Marriage Counselor?
You want to save your marriage from turning sour and soulless, and so you are looking to seek help from a marriage counselor. But how do you choose one? Do you go to the one your friend recommends or to the one whose fees seem reasonable? Well, you will find plenty of marriage advice – some free and some making a hole in your wallet. However, you have got to make sure you are getting the right advice. How? By visiting a good counselor/therapist.
Lisa Kift, the Marriage and Family Therapist, in her article, lists eight great tips to ensure a marriage counselor is good. Here are the aspects, she suggests, you should look at.
- Therapist Credentials / Degrees
- Fees
- Location
- Referrals
- Spiritual / Religious Concerns
- Therapist Modality
- Comfort Level
Finally, Lisa suggests you “trust your instincts” when it comes to choosing a marriage counselor. Believe it or not, it works. Actually, this advice works well even when you are trying to make your marriage work or your family stick together. Many times, we know exactly what is right and what is not. And yet, we ignore our conscience to go by what our ego tells us. At times, one just needs to pause and look at a situation from a distance. That gives one a new perspective and the vision to handle things in a different way. The result of such vision is almost always positive.
Now, coming back to the subject of choosing a marriage counselor, keep in mind the fact that such counseling is important to you. Don’t approach any counselor just for the heck of it.
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