Specialties
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How does one know when to start couples therapy? Just like having one cough does not warrant a trip to the doctor’s office, one argument does not mean the couple should seek out a therapist. However, if physical issues persist and become bothersome or worse, those are your bodies signs letting you know it is time to seek a physician. The same is true for when couples should seek couples therapy. There are emotional and marital signs that give us indicators of an issue that should be checked out.
Relationship Issues
Therapy should be seen as preventive care. We should look at therapy as a way to sharpen our communication skills and express our feelings, learn new ways to validate and love our partner, and gain helpful tools in fighting fairly. Just like neglecting our body can lead to serious health issues, neglecting our relationship can lead to bigger and deeper problems such as: communication issues, infidelity, fault finding, feeling insignificant or unloved in the relationship, etc.
Discernment Counseling
You may have reached a critical crossroads in your marriage: either you, your spouse, or both of you are thinking of getting a divorce. Even if you decide not to stay married, going through discernment counseling may help you ease the pain of splitting up and how to coparent peacefully.
Infertility/Secondary Infertility
1 in 8 women struggles with infertility. This therapy validates where you and/or your partner are with the infertility process, provides education about infertility/secondary infertility: IUI, IVF, ICSI.
Grief/Loss
Some losses are due to a death of a loved one while other losses are unmet expectations that happen in life like a job loss, a relationship ending or an ambiguous loss like infertility or a family cut off.
Religious Trauma
Working through pain from a church or other religious organization, being shunned, or having an identity crisis due to an affiliation with a certain religious group.
Parenting
From new parents to empty nesters, setting boundaries, communicating with different age groups from toddlers to adult children, and transitioning into empty nesting.
Spirituality
Regardless of your faith, your view of God can bring great healing and ways to cope in hard times. Questioning yourself, faith and beliefs can cause a plethora of confusion. Sometimes talking through your faith can help you discover insight into yourself and into your belief system.
Life Transitions
Going to college, graduating from college, losing a job, moving, divorce, death of a child, loved one or spouse, becoming empty nesters, medical issue diagnoses, becoming a caretaker to a parent.
Sexuality
Your sexuality plays a part in your wholeness. There can be many reasons why sexuality can affect both as an individual as well as in your relationship. If you struggle to see yourself as a sexual being or have negative narratives when it comes to sex, a trusted therapist can help you explore how you could see your sexuality in a more positive way.
Contact
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