Great Couples Counseling in Live Oak, CA. Therapy to heal relationships.

When your relationship isn't happy, it affects every area of your life. (Research implicates even issues of one's health, career advancement, and annual income!) Therapy can be a way to build lifelong relationship skills and a fresh perspective that transfer into all settings (work, parenting, friendships and family life). It's well worth the investment!

There are countless models of healthy romantic relationships, from monogamous to polyamorous, and unique variations between partners. The scripts for dating and longterm relationships of our parents’ generations may not be applicable to your relationship, and there is no formal education in how to be a good partner or how to identify unhealthy relationships. But there is psychological research that shows that effective communication, emotional openness, intimacy, and other factors contribute to healthy relationships. Creating these conditions are skills that can be learned. I practice brief humanistic and emotion-focused therapy (EFT) to help my LGBTQ and hetero clients learn these skills.

Whether or not your married, whether or not you are thinking about marriage, if you are in a relationship with another person, you are bound to occasionally have some communication issues or misunderstandings. However, when these communication issues or misunderstandings prevent us from having a happy and healthy relationship, we need to seek help before deciding to separate or divorce. My couples counseling can help you identify the causes of relationship dissatisfaction and find ways to help you communicate and listen better.

What are the most common couples' issues? If you are thinking "communication, conflict, sex, money, child rearing" you are correct. However, most therapists will go after the symptom on each side of the couple fence thinking that the way to effective change is by getting each party to "work" on their respective "issue". Many times the parties don’t agree but comply. Imagine if you could align the unconscious brains of a couple and stop the "working on your issues" part that has become so popular in therapy settings? Contact kevin@kevinflemingphd.com to learn how! Or call 877-606-6161. DR. FLEMING'S NEW RELATIONSHIP/COUPLES INTENSIVES. www.kevinflemingphd.com/marriage-couples-retreats.php

Couples counseling is in many ways the same, but also different from marriage counseling. It's the same, because often the couple are living together as a married couple would do. It's different because as a couple, not married, there is a different dynamic. I've helped many couples navigate their way through their relationship, defining it, making decisions, creating plans, setting goals, having dreams for the future. I could go on, but if you're reading this, you have your own set of things you want to talk with me about. Call me and let's get started.