I help couples achieve their goals . . .

I focus on teaming with high functioning clients who wish to enhance their lives and relationships. With motivation and assistance I believe you can achieve your fullest potential and create the life and relationships you truly want. Together, we work towards building a relationship where both partners are on the same page, connected, happy and growing individually and as a couple.

Once we begin, you can expect to receive direct answers to your questions. You’ll learn new tools and skills for communicating, resolving conflict and dealing with difficult situations. These new approaches will help you think, feel, and respond more effectively with one other.
After a few sessions, you will find it easier to discuss difficult issues and explore new options within the safe, supportive environment that I provide. With your help, I can help your partner to understand what is in your mind and your heart. As a result, you both can feel loved and accepted in new and meaningful ways.

The couples I work with appreciate my concern for their well-being, active approach and candor. I am respectful of differences and provide an atmosphere where clients feel comfortable enough to share their difficulties, and supported enough to make the necessary changes for success. My goal is to help each couple rapidly resolve problems and improve their relationship.

I help couples to . . .
- Rebuild warmth, love and passion
- Learn to meet one another’s needs without giving up their own
- Communicate in such a way that they both feel understood and accepted, even while disagreeing
- Rebuild trust and let go of past hurts
- Resolve problems and

- Manage the impact of work and other outside stressors on the relationship

- Prepare for marriage
- Enjoy a satisfying sex life
- Deal with money, parenting issues, household management and in-laws more effectively

The Reason I Became a Helping Professional

My first twenty years after college I was single, and now have been married nearly 25 years. In my late thirties I spent two years in therapy overcoming the personal issues that kept me single. Within three years of completing that process I ended my career in Computers, found the woman I am now married to and started on the path to becoming a Marriage Counselor. Wherever we have personally suffered often turns out to be where we can be most helpful to others. I would not have the successful life and relationships I have today without the help of several caring and competent professionals over the years.

My first career of twenty years was in business with almost equal time spent in aerospace, publishing and computers. These experiences allow me to understand many of the problems faced in a normal career. My last corporate position was president of a computer software development firm. My second twenty years has included becoming a therapist, being married and raising a niece, who is now raising her own family, and my own two sons who are now in High School and College. These experiences allow me to understand at a personal level some of the same problems you face in your relationships.

Client Profile:

My clients are usually quite successful in other areas of their lives, and want to experience the same success in their relationships. They appreciate a therapist who will actively work with them to establish their goals for the work we do together. This means finding the tools, skills and accurate self perceptions needed to become all you seek to be and to sustain the successful relationship you want.

My clients are interested in taking a mutual journey of self-discovery with their partner. Itâ??s a journey to not only solve the problems they now face, but to also prepare them for the future problems they will encounter in life â?? and to grow closer together in the process.

Specialized Training:

I have training in EMDR, an effective treatment for trauma and PTSD which often plague a betrayed partner (intrusive thoughts about the betrayal, dreams, unwanted thoughts that that play over and over, can't stop being suspicious or getting angry, etc.)

For More Information:
- Please see my web site at www.Great-Marriages-Now.com
- Call now for a FREE CONSULTATION, 877 707-1561

Insurance

Although, I do not accept insurance, I do provide a receipt for you to submit to your insurance company or Medical Savings Account for reimbursement. Please note that my choice to avoid working with insurance companies is to ensure that your information and right to privacy is protected. Once you use your insurance, your information is open for them to review. Your private, intimate details are no longer private.

Office Hours and Setting Appointments

I offer convenient day and evening appointments from noon to 10:00 PM at night Monday through Thursdays in Pasadena, CA.

It is easiest to reach me directly by phone at 877 707-1561. I generally am able to return calls within a few hours however will always get back to you within 24 hours. You can also reach me via email at andrewwhaling@hotmail.com