Who I see/What I do: (I Offer in-office & Teletherapy Sessions)
Are you thinking of launching into a serious dating relationship, engagement, marriage, remarriage or blending your family? Or, perhaps you want to launch your current relationship to another level? You are now in a good place to take time out and give yourselves the gift of healthy love. As people, we buy insurance for just about everything around us, yet we may forget to invest in the most important relationship of our lives… our marriage!
All relationships have blind spots and rough edges. Whether you are new in love, renewing love, or starting again in love, get ahead of relationship storms by creating a resiliency plan to confidently manage and respond to rough weather when it happens. Most couples wait until they are six years into marriage before they seek help. By this time, much damage may have already corrupted the loving bond in their relationship. The American Psychological Association reports that 50% of all marriages end in divorce. And this number continues to inflate in second and third marriages. With this said, research also shows that proper pre-marriage preparation decreases susceptibility to break-up and divorce by 31%. Give yourselves the gift that last for a relationship lifetime. Become a part of the growing statistic of successful marriages and come build your marriage before it starts!
Check-up and check-in on your relationship and launch it in the right direction with therapy-focused sessions.
Individuals and Couples Who Benefit
- Individuals who are seeking to understand themselves better and reach or discover their goals for healthier lifestyles and relationships
- Individuals recovering from impaired family backgrounds who want to heal and understand how to change the course of how they do relationships with themselves and others
- Individuals who are considering dating and or seriously dating & want to be intentional about their choices
- Engaged couples who are preparing for marriage
- Newly married couples
- Remarriage preparation couples
- Blended and newly married couples
- Couples who want to grow at any stage of commitment
- Couples in recovery who want to be intentional about creating a healthy interdependent relationship, grow together, understand and work to heal from wounds of their past
Some themes I navigate with Couples
- Personality traits and attachment styles
- Tolerating differences
- Habits and tendencies
- Money styles and planning
- Emotional coping abilities
- Conflict management styles
- Boundaries, expectations, and power division
- Motivators, values, dreams, and goals
- Love, needs, and desires
- Early experiences influence on relationship
- Ghosts from the past and Wounds from the present
- Social worlds and spiritual contexts
- Getting Parenting styles on the same page
- Developmental stages of relationships
- Developmental stages of recovering couples’ relationships
- Couple resource maps and recovery plans
Practice Areas
- Addiction recovery
- Anxiety
- Body image
- Codependency
- Depression
- Eating disorder recovery
- Emotional regulation
- Existential challenges / crises
- Family conflict
- Grief and loss
- Identity development
- Impulse control
- Infertility
- Life transitions
- Parenting
- Perfectionism
- Pregnancy and postpartum
- Pre-marriage, remarriage counseling, marriage enrichment counseling
- Recovering couples
- Religion and spirituality
- Self-esteem
- Social anxiety
- Stress
- Trauma recovery/PTSD
“Communication is to marriage, what breathing is to the body"
Gary Chapman, The 5 Love Languages
Couples Launch