Marital and Premarital Counseling
– What are your reasons for wanting to be with your partner?
– Does your partner understand your needs, wants or feelings?
– Is your partner empathetic about your needs and concerns?
– Are you fully aware of your partner’s childhood or family issues?
– Do you know what makes your partner angry, anxious, and sad?
– Do you communicate about feelings or do you stay quiet to avoid conflict?
– Do you expect your role in your marriage to be the same as that of your own parents?
– What issues did the relationship trigger within yourself?
– What issues are you unwilling to compromise on?
– Are you aware of each other’s financial status?
– Are your spending and saving habits the same?
– Do either of you have anxiety about money?
Marital Therapy
– Do you find yourselves fighting over the same issues over and over?
– Do you have communication about topics other than your children?
– Have either of you found yourself thinking or fantasizing about someone else?
– Do you feel that you would leave the relationship if you did not have children?
– Is your relationship less fulfilling than it used to be?
– Do you feel distant from your spouse?
– Do you have less affection for your spouse or partner than you used to?
– Can your spouse or partner understand your feelings and emotions without taking it personally?
Counseling Can Help
If you answered “yes” to at least two of these questions and things are not getting better, counseling can help. Many of my clients have reported that without counseling, they would have gotten divorced or stayed in their marriage and remained unhappy. During marital therapy, not only is communication addressed, but the therapy will teach and develop new skills to learn how to:
– Develop more understanding and empathy for your spouse or partner
– Learn to listen to your spouse or partner without feeling attacked
– Discover why certain issues keep recurring in the relationship
– Become mutually responsible for changing negative patterns
– Meet each other’s needs more effectively
– Increase and strengthen loving behavior
Feel free to visit my website to learn more about me. You are welcome to email me directly using this form, or call my office. I look forward to hearing from you and I’m here to help.
