Marriage Counseling
Private Relationship Counseling
in Person, Online or by Telephone
For more than 30 years we have grown together as a married couple while also working with hundreds of couples who came to us for marriage counseling. Our professional work includes published articles, teleseminars, weekend workshops, radio programs, and our recently published book, Mining for Gold in Your Relationship.
We have worked successfully with couples who, just like you, were tired of having the same frustrating circular arguments over and over again. We will teach you the same proven 5-step Mining for Gold process so you can finally feel understood, appreciated, and closer together in deeper and more intimate ways that make marriage fun again.
* The Mining for Gold approach explains how the differences which lead to frustrations are actually a natural part of what originally attracted you to each other. Using insights from brain studies and major psychological research, we can help you look at the story of your relationship in a fresh new way.
* Mining for Gold aims to establish or reestablish a healthy, safe, mutually beneficial dialogue. Learn a simple, respectful and effective way to talk with your partner about the things that really matter without blame, shame, or criticism.
* Begin right away to experience a stronger connection that comes through attentive hearing and being deeply heard in an emotionally safe environment. Then surprising answers to age-old conflicts will automatically emerge.
We know what it takes to have an enduring, satisfying relationship – and that it requires more than just memories of the romantic feelings that first attracted us to one another. The idea that love alone sustains marriage, without personal and interpersonal work, is a myth. But it is also a misconception that it has to be all work and no play. The investment of time, energy, or money that goes into enhancing a relationship is like an effort to uncover gold. The rewards are rare and priceless and reap benefits for life.
Over time most relationships move from the romantic stage into a stagnant or stifled phase. Then recurring patterns and modes of behavior become gradually entrenched. The beautiful shared energy of fulfilling, loving exchanges becomes gradually replaced by habitually frustrating kinds of emotionally-charged and reactive behavior. Hurtful words and feelings are exchanged. Hearts become guarded. Attitudes become defensive. Deeply felt pain gets redirected toward one another.
* Learn to predict and diffuse conflict before it develops, and proactively implement positive strategies that are comfortable, natural, and intuitive.
* Replace painful conflict and annoying behaviors with a satisfying feeling of shared warmth, enhanced chemistry, and exciting and passionate connection.
* Celebrate relationships, family, and children. Experience the quality of committed love and connectivity you have always dreamed of and yearned to call your own.
Children become bewildered bystanders and innocent casualties, as marriages and families dissolve into stress and discord. Unless the damage can be repaired, a lifetime of loving effort can be lost, and the chances quickly diminish for children to have their own opportunity to grow into happy adults who enjoy their own intimate connections in loving partnerships they so much deserve.
* Don’t stay stuck and miserable another day, heading toward another unhappy year or to a painful separation or divorce. Invest in yourself and your family and grow past frustrations to uncover the hidden treasure within the undeveloped, or underdeveloped potential of each partner.
* Understand the “cause and effect” of relationship dynamics while exploring the impact of frustrating behavior on our partner. Embrace the vulnerable parts of yourselves. Co-create precious memories that generate good feelings about the past, present, and future.
* Repair any damage caused by feelings of ruptured connectivity. Articulate those uncovered messages to nurture and support a mutually satisfying relationship. Discover a sustainable system for mutual nurturing, affirmation, respect, support, healing, and growth.
When painful feelings are triggered, interpretations or misinterpretations follow. The couple goes round and round, mired in the conflict of an ongoing power struggle with no satisfying resolution. All of this energy takes the couple off track and puts painful distance between their current experience and the way they felt when they first met.
* Choose 90 minute sessions or 3-hour, 6-hour, or 9-hour intensive sessions.
* Get your relationship on the fast track to fulfillment, satisfaction, and passion.
* All of it starts with a complimentary phone consultation at no cost to you.
Click the link below now to download (or fill out) our simple questionnaire that enables us to prepare for your free 20-minute phone consultation. Within less than half an hour you can begin to realize your vision of relationship potential that is energized by the natural attraction dormant and waiting to blossom with love, promise, passion, and possibility.