Great Couples Counseling in Hemby Bridge, NC. Therapy to heal relationships.

Couples are frequently referred to me by current and former clients, colleagues, and other healthcare professionals including physicians from several disciplines. More often than not, couples self-refer for help because one or both are feeling stuck and in pain. Sometimes there is an accumulation of hurts that have piled up. You need to talk about it. There are many benefits to couples counseling: enhanced communication, learning how to resolve conflict, creating more trust, growing intimacy, identifying triggers that can cause upsets, learning how to deal with the inevitable challenges that even the very best of relationships experience, and learning how to love at deeper levels.

I enjoy helping couples find joy in their marriage, renew passion for one another and learn how to communicate effectively. When couples learn how to listen to each other effectively, intimacy is increased. I help couples work through communication issues as well as learn how to manage stress in their life. I also help couples look at some of the most common pitfalls in communication and how they can identify and correct these pitfalls. I offer a compassionate and caring approach that helps couples utilize strengths as well as help couples work as a team to overcome their challenges!

I love to see thriving couple relationships. You want to have a thriving relationship, but there has been something that has driven you apart, injured the relationship, or kept you from connecting the way you desire. I can provide practical skills for changing, and also help you grow in connecting and healing in safe and healthy ways. I help you discover the relational patterns that are creating problems for your relationship, and new patterns that help you thrive and heal. I journey with you in coming together in meaningful interaction and shape each other and make something beautiful.

My approach to couple's counseling focuses on identifying relationship patterns, unmet needs, and developing new and healthy ways of relating. Many couple's slowly grow apart over time and lose the feeling of closeness. Often this comes out as, 'we are two different people' or 'we can't communicate anymore'. Most couple's try to solve these problems on their own often for years. As the frustration grows, the relationship strains. There is hope as new healthy patterns can be created and most of this is done in session until couples are confident on their own. Usually this course of treatment takes 12 to 16 sessions.

In our first session we will take a look at what brings you to therapy and what you would like to see different. To further understand the dynamics of your relationship, you will take a relationship inventory that will assess the strengths and the areas of growth in your relationship. Based on your story and the results of the assessment, we will set the goals for your therapy that will guide us in the process of rebuilding and improving your relationship with your significant other. We will use exercises from Gottman Method to help you become friends again, increase fondness and admiration for each other, and learn healthy communication and conflict resolution skills.

Much can be left unsaid in a loving relationship. And, over the many months and years, this lack of communication on what can be important aspects of a relationship can cause problems and even break-up. No relationship is beyond repair. The desire to want to repair hurt feelings and ineffective communication is the biggest hurdle. Two loving adults who want their relationship to be successful can indeed be just that. Call me to schedule your appointment today.

I work with couples with pre-engagement and pre-marital counseling. I use personality assessment skills to evaluate compatible personality aspects and strengths for the couple to identify areas of strengths and possible challenges. Couples are able to learn skills and strategies that help them be better prepared to navigate through life's up's and down's.