Great Couples Counseling in West Roxbury, MA. Therapy to heal relationships.

While much of the counseling world usually focuses on helping individuals, Couples and Family Counseling focuses on helping the relationships of families and couples, and the individuals within those relationships. Also known as couple’s counseling or relationship counseling, it can assist you in various ways, including your: – Communication – Sense of belonging – Intimacy and sex – Cooperation

Your relationship has the potential to become a place where you can bring more joy and happiness into your life. Couples therapy is the most challenging of therapies due to the emotional intensity of the couple’s dynamics. When both members of a couple are committed to repairing the relationship, working with a skilled clinician is highly rewarding and successful. Couples entering counseling who have a mixed agenda where splitting up is a possibility, need help to discern and determine their goals. I see couples together as well as individually, and work with them to determine what would need to change for them achieve increased affection and the closeness they had when they first met.

'Men are from Mars & Women are from Venus' is a fantastic metaphor that will help you to understand yourself and your partner better. Because I am personally trained by Dr. John Gray and have helped thousands of couples improve communication and relationships, I feel confidant that I can help you have best relationship imaginable; Respecting and loving as you did in the first six months of your time together.

Doing couple therapy is to open direct communication and avoid assuming between the couple. I used many techniques to get couple openly trust to say anything without been judged and be afraid to say things to each other. I use reflection toward their first time they met so I send them on date . I also give couple some assignments such as "do appreciate from partner; and do not appreciate from partner"

I work with couples (both straight and gay) in many effective ways to improve communication, to fight effectively, to heal and make up after a quarrel, to understand each other better, to be faithful and trustworthy, to be there for each other when times get tough, to include children into the mix, and, if necessary to separate in a civil manner with fewer wounds to carry into the next relationship.

I see couples of all different variations and types, both alternative and mainstream. The same basic skills are critical to teach. Communication, positive appreciation of one another, compassionate listening, and finding ways to experience joy with one another. I help them be able to experience vulnerability with one another in a safe manner so that they can become closer and strengthen connection.

Couples deserve to succeed. Conflicts in a marriage are rarely about the issues, but instead how couples talk about the issues. In marriage counseling sessions I work actively with couples to teach new skills. Right from the start couples receive a manual that I have written that summarizes the research on how successful couples communicate. Together we change how you communicate in sessions, receiving lots of feedback and guidance. If your previous conversations escalated or even stopped occurring, new ways of communicating will restore friendship and rebuild emotional connection.

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

Couple counseling can help couples who are considering cohabitation, pre-marital discussion of expectations, relationship difficulities, communication issues, and sepation/divorce recovery. We believe where there is effort there is hope. Unfortunately, many relationships fail prematurely due to the lack of skills helpful in maintaining intimacy and closeness. We help couples discover their expectations, beliefs and values. We offer couples the practical tools to communicate in constructive ways, to problem solve to mutual satisfaction, and to remain intimate on all levels.