Premarital Counseling

Premarital Counseling

Premarital counseling helps couples prepare for marriage. It can give individuals reassurance in their relationship and identify weaknesses that may become problematic during marriage. It intends to give partners a realistic insight into what their marriage may look like and address certain topics and issues to maintain a strong relationship. Counseling can equip them with the tools to resolve conflict throughout the marriage and lay out expectations that satisfy both partners.

The intended outcome for premarital counseling is to prepare two individuals in a relationship for marriage. They may be dating or engaged, but can see marriage in their future. It helps partners learn how to better communicate, set realistic expectations, and discuss finances prior to entering into the covenant of marriage. It may also help partners identify their role in the marriage and share their beliefs and values.

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Marriage Counseling

Marriage Counseling

Marriage counseling is a type of psychotherapy intended to help couples identify and resolve conflicts. Journeys Counseling helps individuals or couples rebuild and strengthen their relationship to keep marriages intact by using attachment theory, Emotionally Focused Therapy, and other proven marital theories.

Marriage counseling is provided by counselors which include Trainees, Associates, and Licensed MFTs. These individuals intend to help patients with varying needs and goals for therapy.

Marriage counseling can involve both partners or one person on their own. The treatment plan depends on the specific situation. Our therapist will decide which approach is best upon evaluation.

Journeys Counseling strives to provide quality marriage counseling to the community and produce positive outcomes for clients. While some couples hope to better understand each other and improve their relationship, other times couples seek counseling to repair a damaged relationship. From very serious challenges such as external affairs or addictions, to ongoing differences including money management, marital counseling may help couples work on and resolve issues that arise.

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Relationship Counseling

Relationship Counseling

Relationship counseling is a type of psychotherapy that helps couples and relationships of all types identify and resolve conflicts to improve their relationships. Since all relationships face their own stressors and challenges, this counseling serves to strengthen the quality of a relationship. Although it typically refers to a romantic partnership, it also pertains to non-romantic relationships.

This type of counseling gives partners a safe place to explore their behavior patterns as individuals and together as a couple. It grants them the opportunity to become more aware of their actions and decisions to promote a healthy partnership.

Relationship counseling can help individuals in a relationship that struggle with handling conflict, finding common ground, or have ongoing issues that need to be worked through. A counselor can teach their clients about healthy disagreements and address problems that may put the relationship at risk.

Depending on the issues needing to be addressed, counselors will help clients find ways to work through and resolve conflict and develop skills for developing bonds of trust. Issues can include individual psychological issues, parent-child challenges, and relationship anxiety which impacts their relationship. By facing their problems together as a team, the people in the relationship can learn ways to handle conflict, develop intimacy, build trust, and resolve issues.

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Individual Counseling

Individual Counseling

Individual counseling is a one-on-one session with a counselor that aims to help individuals receive support and grow during difficult times in their life. A trained professional may provide the client with a comfortable environment for them to examine their feelings, behaviors, and beliefs. This counseling focuses on the client, and both counselor and client set goals for therapy. Overall, this type of therapy aims to help clients grow and move toward more psychologically healthy lives.

Individual sessions typically range from 45 to 50 minutes. Some individuals may find their problems resolved with short-term therapy, while others may need more time before they see improvement.

Often, people lack support systems that help them deal with personal problems and other issues. Individual counseling seeks to assist the client with their current and anticipated problems. Counselors provide them with a supportive and safe environment that allows the individual to work through issues such as past traumas and difficulties, depression, anxiety, grief, career counseling, and more. Through talking, writing and other assignments individuals may find relief and witness personal change in their life.

For instance, a client going through a major loss may not know ways to cope with grief. A counselor can listen, identify other resources, aid in developing grieving processes and help identify ways to move forward with life. In addition to the loss of a loved one, grief can encompass other types of loss including a move, a job loss, a child leaving for college or the end of a relationship.

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Family Counseling

Family Counseling

Family therapy is a form of psychotherapy that aims to resolve conflict by improving the interactions between family members. It usually takes the approach that patterns in the family must change for conflict to resolve.

The word “family” is typically defined as anyone who offers a long-term role in one’s life which could mean someone outside of blood relations. This therapy seeks to have all family members present, but doesn’t require it.

Clients may be dealing with mental health diagnosis in the family, addiction, conflict between members, divorce, unexpected loss, trauma, parent conflict, and more. This therapy can help one develop healthy boundaries, reduce family conflict, build empathy, and improve communication between family members.

Counselors can take different approaches based on their clients’ needs. They may help families redefine roles and responsibilities. The counselor can help parents develop good parenting skills and teach that each person in the family needs to have a voice and be heard. This requires boundaries, active listening, and a skillful therapist to create a safe environment for all family members.

Counselors may look at the behaviors and actions of family members to identify what happens on an unconscious level. They may approach their clients with questions as to why an issue occurs and seek to provide different insight to family members.

Family counseling aims to help resolve family issues and improve relationships between members. Through various approaches, it helps clients’ face their issues head-on while developing a better understanding of the people involved.

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