Find Out What to Expect at Couples Therapy Don’t know what to expect at couples therapy? If so, you are in the right place. I am in the middle of a 4-part blog series about what you need to know prior to your first couples therapy appointment. Feel free to check out my first …
Marital Therapy: 3 Common Misconceptions Are you getting ready to attend marital therapy? If so, this blog series is for you! If you haven’t already read the first article in this series on marital therapy, it is here. As a Marriage and Family Therapist, many couples come into my office with misconceptions and false expectations …
Tips for First Couples Therapy Session (From a Couples Therapist) Get excited! I’ve decided to do a blog series on helping you to prepare and give you tips for your first couples therapy session. I think it is important to equip incoming couples with information to help set realistic expectations. After all, when expectations …
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Couples Therapy: What To Do When Your Partner Would Rather Watch Paint Dry You desperately want to go to couples therapy. Your spouse doesn’t. What are you to do? To start, read my blog post series that addresses this very concern! You can find each article on the topic here, here, and here. I’m …
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What If My Partner (or Spouse) Refuses to Go to Counseling? This is the 3rd blog post in a series on how to handle it when your spouse or partner refuses to go to couples counseling. So, what do I say when I get the question: “What if my partner (or spouse) refuses to go …
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Reasons Not To Go To Couples Therapy (& Why They’re Flawed!) A couple of weeks ago, I started a 3-part series on what you might want to do when your partner gives you reasons not to go to couples therapy. Check out the original blog post that started this series. When you have your heart …
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Help! My Partner Refuses Couples Counseling From time to time, I hear variations on a theme regarding going to couples counseling: “My girlfriend refuses couples counseling” “My wife won’t go to marriage counseling!” “My husband won’t got to couples therapy” “We need couples therapy but my boyfriend won’t go.” If you are reading this …
51 of the Best 5 Love Languages Exercises to Try This Year You’ve undoubtedly heard of “The Five Love Languages” by Gary Chapman. You also likely know the book’s premise: There are five different and unique ways of expressing and receiving love. In case you can’t remember all five off the top of your head, …
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39 of the Best Pre-Marriage Counseling Questions In part one, I shared 43 pre-marriage counseling questions that you and your partner should ponder. As I stated in my first post, it’s well worth your time to contemplate these questions. If- on the off chance you aren’t convinced- let me offer more reasons why: You …
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43 Premarital Counseling Questions (From a Marriage Counselor) Here’s an interesting fact- the vast majority of engaged couples spend much more time preparing for their wedding day than they do preparing for their marriage. After all, when two people are so in love, what could possibly go wrong? We all know… A LOT! …
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