| Couples' counseling is about "our problem." The problem lies in the internal and external issues for both of you. Couples' work is about courage, awareness, skills and teamwork. The courage to follow through, the awareness to identify patterns, and the skills to connect through healthy communication- speaking and listening, with the combined purpose and goal of coming together as a team. These skills are often taken as known until something goes wrong. The cliché "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure" applies here. We will work with you to remedy learned habits that create distance between the two of you, and help you to learn new skills, based on the patterns of communication between you now that lead to episodes of anger and withdrawal and prevent togetherness. |
