Great Couples Counseling in Oak Park, MI. Therapy to heal relationships.

Do you feel misunderstood at times? Are you looking to find ways to make your marriage more meaningful? Do you want to take your relationship from good to great? I am a psychotherapist who understands that life can feel like a daily struggle. No one should have to endure these feelings alone. As a certified Prepare/Enrich Facilitator and Professional Counselor, I compassionately listen and support couples reconnect and emotionally move forward to bring a healthy balance back into their lives. Couples will gain skills for a rewarding partnership, discover the importance of effective communication and explore resolving conflict using healthy communication.

Couple relationships can get into trouble within the first few minutes--or the first few chat messages. And troubles can arise after years of relational success. If you feel your relationship is going into negative directions, intervention can make a difference. My Identity Renegotiation approach seeks to locate and disable negative messages; find sources of support for a healthy relationship; develop an updated and more realistic image of who you can be in your relationship; and polish off the rough spots so you can move forward smoothly.

I utilize my experience as a family mediator and therapist to work collaboratively with couples to assist them in meeting their goals they wish to accomplish as a result of therapy. Typical issues that come up include communication, evaluating the relationship for marriage, evaluating the relationship for divorce, or any other issue that you as a couple are struggling with. Therapy/counseling of this nature is often 3 - 6 months of sessions every other week.

How do you and your spouse interact. Have you created unspoken rules that regulate how you interact yet cause pain. I address the dysfunctional rules of the relationship and help you improve communication skills. Let me help you learn how to change the rules and develop healthy skills one step at a time. Most couples wait until it is too late to save the relationship. Don't wait, call for an appointment today.

As a licensed clinical psychologist and addictions specialist, I work with couples, who are struggling with drugs, alcohol, rage, violence, and behavioral issues. I walk with couples through a partner or child's addiction and provide targeted therapy and information. I help couples, who have "tried everything," and turn to me for help with high-risk/high-conflict behavior. I have the crisis intervention skills to provide immediate help. I restore hope in relationships that are being torn apart by by many types of addiction and anger.

Couples Counseling can be specific or broad in nature. Counseling may help a couple work through a specific issue or conflict, or it may help the couple to improve communication, change patterns and work through long standing issues. Our therapists work with couples at all stages - whether in a new relationship and attempting to work out conflicts that are preventing them for progressing, or in a long term relationship and wishing to increase emotional depth and intimacy.

Couples therapy is always more difficult than individual because I am having to listen carefully to two people. I think it is highly important for both parties to be heard, understood and validated. I usually address their differences, as well as mutual commonalities. Couples are usually in difficulty when their needs are not being met. Communication, lack of intimacy and issue of forgiveness continue to be the major issues. I have devised a program entitled "The Ingredients of An Ideal Relationship" that I use with couples. It has been highly effective in helping couples identify their issues and work towards resolution.

You are not alone. Many couples struggle with maintaining a loving, supportive union. It takes courage to admit that long term relationships are not easy, and even more to actually act on that admission. The path to growth is never easy, but it is so very rewarding! Seeking couples counseling doesn’t automatically signify the end of your marriage or relationship. Rather, it can be a new beginning. So, if you and your partner are ready to move forward, we are ready to be your guide. Now is the time. Give us a call today.

There is hope! Oftentimes in life we just need support - someone to listen, provide compassion, a guiding light - to help you find peace within. I believe in the power of relationships and that together we can grow towards a more fulfilling and joyful life. When we become overwhelmed or uncertain about the paths we choose to travel, it can be helpful to orient ourselves and take inventory of the resources and tools available. Despite each person's need to walk their own distinct path, it can be beneficial to obtain wisdom and guidance from supportive allies. I would like to help you increase your quality of life and realize your true potential.

"Is this relationship worth saving?" is a question many people find themselves asking. My approach to couples who are not married is similar to the approach used with married couples but different. Often being a couple is more complicated, there are often less understood rules adding confusion to the relationship. One method that I use is to clarify the rules of the relationship. Fear is often a reason that couples stay together. Unless this fear is addressed the relationship is jeopardy.

By combining Imago Relationship Therapy with other psychological theories and techniques, I help couples learn to navigate difficulties, break patterns of conflict, and communicate better, making it easier for the relationship to heal. Marriage counseling is an investment in your relationship that pays dividends over a lifetime together. Don't wait too long, hoping it will go away. You deserve to feel loving hopefulness again!

Relationships are a vital part of our lives, but when our relationships cause stress and pain for us, we often need a third-party to help us navigate the path to a rewarding relationship. I will help you find the areas that cause problems, determine the underlying issues, and choose behaviors that will help your relationship rather than damage it. I will work with you on expectations, communication, behavior, and connecting. Learning to love and respect each other will take your relationship to a much more satisfying level.

All couples struggle. Sooner or later, you will struggle between yourselves and certainly together. It has been said that by the time a couple comes to therapy, they have waited 8 years longer than they should have. That's a long time, spent wishing things would just get better and/or pretending the struggle isn't there. As life brings changes within you, between you, and around you, it can be very beneficial to talk with a therapist who can help you with insight, coping, and communication skills. A therapist may be able to help you talk about sensitive subjects, such as sex, money, the kids, the affair, the compulsion, the addiction, the health crisis, the mental illness, the divorce...