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One-Day Marriage Counseling

Many people email or call Marriage Counselors only to tell them that, while counseling is desperately needed, their spouse refuses to attend sessions. In these cases, most spouses will instead agree to an intensive one day session rather than making a commitment to counseling or therapy. For couples in this position, a one day intensive marriage counseling session can be viewed as a compromise by both parties involved.

Many of our patients get a great benefit from only one extended session of couples counseling. Single session counseling can be very productive. When the goal of your counseling is to resolve your problems in only one session you tend to get right to the heart of issues quickly.

One day intensive marriage counseling sessions often serve as a lifeline for couples in trouble, and as a last resort for people in a relationship with another who does not want to make a counseling commitment.

Here is how a one day intensive marriage counseling session would work:

[The] counselor will help you peel through the superficial issues that are covering up your real underlying problems. Then the counselor will help you learn new skills to help you overcome your relationship problems. Most relationship problems stem from a couples not having the basic skills they need to get what they want from their partners without hurting them with anger, sarcasm or stonewalling tactics. [The] therapist can help you learn basic communication skills that will help you resolve your problems during your session and when you get back home and face the difficult problems that affect every relationship.

In case you think that the session may leave you with no closure afterward, there is a follow up.

Before you wrap up the session [The] counselor will give you both some homework and will schedule a follow up phone call. The follow up call will allow you and our counselor to evaluate the success of the session and see if it was effective for changing the trajectory of your relationship.

Many find that their previously counseling-shy partner is more apt to want to continue therapy after a one-day intensive marriage counseling session.

This article was written by Staff Writer, and posted on Saturday, June 6th, 2009 at 9:28 am. It is filed under Marriage Counselors. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.