All About What We Do: Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy at A Peaceful Life Counseling Services When couples come to their first Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy session, they may bring with them a range of emotions: Fear that therapy won’t help, pain and hurt from arguing and/or great disconnection and a concern that the therapist won’t…
Marriage counseling fears – it’s a real thing. The dilemma of the couples counseling stigma is all-too familiar to professionals who work with couples. We’ll sometimes hear: We feel like a failure that it’s come to this — that we need help with our marriage. We didn’t know where to go for help — We…
Attachment styles have moved into more discussions and writing about relationships over the past few years. And for good reason: Understanding your own and your partner’s style can forge a new bridge to a deeper awareness of your differences. Most importantly, this new awareness opens the door to greater compassion — and then closeness. There’s…
“How often should we come to couples counseling?” On every initial phone call with a couple interested in couples counseling, I get asked “How often should we come to couples counseling?” I recommend weekly sessions for the first 4-6 weeks, and then re-evaluate after that. That isn’t a requirement, but there are several good reasons…
Why Relationship Advice Doesn’t Work The danger behind being seduced by relationship advice, tips, and tricks. Don’t you just wish that someone would tell you how to fix relationship problems? How many billions of dollars a year are spent in the self-help section, promising the solution to our most complicated issues? Unfortunately, there are real…
What Couples Therapists Believe About Relationships (or at least they should) When your relationship isn’t going as it should be, it’s easy to rack your brain with all sorts of interpretations of what is going on, predictions about the future and what will happen, what needs to happen, etc. All of this can be very…
Now accepting new clients for daytime availability Tues-Thurs. I cannot work with Medicaid clients, and I do not work directly with insurance, but am happy to provide a superbill for out of network reimbursement.