Trust through transparency in Relationships: How Couples Therapy Can Help

In personal relationships, trust is the glue that holds everything together. It is what allows individuals to be vulnerable, knowing that they won't be betrayed or taken advantage of. Without trust, relationships stagnate; individuals detach which causes distance; communication breaks down; and bonds weaken. Trust is the confidence we place in [...]

By |2024-06-29T11:22:29-05:00June 19th, 2024|Couples, Marriage Therapy, Relationship Counseling, Trust and Transparency|Comments Off on Trust through transparency in Relationships: How Couples Therapy Can Help

Finding Balance: Closeness and Separateness

  “Love one another, but make not a bond of love:  Let it rather be a moving sea between souls.” Kahlil Gibran                                                                   [...]

By |2020-10-30T18:30:21-05:00December 31st, 2019|Marriage Therapy, Relationship Counseling|Comments Off on Finding Balance: Closeness and Separateness

The Trauma of Betrayal

  Infidelity fractures the very foundation of a marriage. The discovery of a partner’s betrayal and infidelity is devastating because it shatters basic assumptions about the security we expect in committed relationships.The disorienting after effects of this trauma of betrayal resemble the psychic disorientation and confusion that we see in victims of earthquakes or other [...]

By |2020-10-30T18:30:21-05:00June 19th, 2019|Communication in Relationships, Marriage Therapy, Relationship Counseling|Comments Off on The Trauma of Betrayal

Unlocking Intimacy-Assumptions in Relationships

    “Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in.” ― Isaac Asimov   When we assume something about a situation, we are working with only a portion of the puzzle pieces to the situation. The gaps in the puzzle get filled in [...]

By |2020-10-30T18:30:21-05:00January 16th, 2019|Communication in Relationships, Marriage Therapy, Relationship Counseling|Comments Off on Unlocking Intimacy-Assumptions in Relationships

MARRIAGE FRIENDLY THERAPY

    What is Marriage Friendly therapy and how does it differ from other couples therapy?   Marriage Friendly therapists share the values of supporting the marriage and the couple’s original commitment to marriage.The Marriage Friendly therapist views preserving the marriage as the ideal goal, differing from the approach of some therapists hold a “neutral” [...]

By |2020-10-30T18:30:22-05:00October 9th, 2015|Marriage Therapy|Comments Off on MARRIAGE FRIENDLY THERAPY
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