Couples and Marriage Counseling
Therapy For Relationships At Any Stage Of Life
Most people enter relationships thinking they will be safe. It doesn’t take long to realize relationships are the scariest place to be. We choose partners who are uniquely capable of touching the wound no one else is able to touch. The problem isn’t our partner, the problem is our wound. Being in a relationship can be life giving or life draining, it all depends on how you do it.
Does Couples Counseling and Marriage Counseling Work?…. Sometimes.
Counseling will succeed or fail based on who You try to change. If you are focused on changing your partner it will fail. If you are focused on changing yourself it has a good chance of giving you a new relationship.
Getting off to a strong start:
Most relationship counseling and therapy fails because there isn’t a focus or defined goal. Most therapists don’t have a roadmap. If you ask most therapists what model they use they will say something like “I meet clients where they are at.” This is therapy speak for “I have no idea where a client needs to go.” At Family Integration Counseling we work from the Developmental Model created by Dr. Ellyn Bader and Dr. Peter Pearson at the start of the marriage therapy movement. Nearly 50 years of experience inform the interventions, philosophy and structure of the Developmental Model of Couples Counseling. It’s a roadmap that helps identify the dysfunctional parts of the relationship and helps lead you to a place of standing on your own two feet enough to be a truly intimate with each other.
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