
Couples Counseling
Whether you are dating, engaged, or married your relationship may benefit from support as you seek to write a love story worth living.
Whether you are dating, engaged, or married your relationship may benefit from support as you seek to write a love story worth living.
My approach is grounded in careful attention to how your ability to recognize and regulate your emotional states are affecting the quality of your relationship. Empathy and lively discussion are used to bring into remembrance your strengths as a couple and support satisfaction with your partner.
Couples counseling at Bellingham Family Therapy is a judgment-free zone but it is not a value free zone. Invitations to responsibility for the effects of violence, flirting, addictions and co-dependency in intimate relationships have proven essential to many couples seeking to revive a relationship struggling for survival.
Are any of these common relationship struggles causing distress in your relationship?
- Negative communication?
- One partner has withdrawn emotionally or sexually?
- Wounds from past betrayal are getting in the way of present trust?
- One partner feels taken advantage of and overly responsible?
- Negative effects of pornography?
- Partners feel unvalued or unaccepted?
- Spiritual differences?
- Conflicts over parenting?
- Stress from ex-partners
- Stress from extended family interactions?