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11/19/2012
Latest Articles:
You, Me, and the Affair Esther Goren, MA, MFT
What to Do if Your Spouse Won't Communicate
Amy Morin, LCSW
Why Does He
Push Me Away After a Good Weekend Together?
Dr. Barbara Cunningham, MFT
The 5 Levels of Attack
Barbi Pecenco, MA
Healing from the Trauma of Infidelity
Press Release
Change Your
Feelings Change Your Marriage
Richard Nicastro, Ph.D.
What Happened to My
Marriage? 3 Things to Consider
Lisa Brookes Kift, MFT
Marriage
Counseling & Guidance from YourMarriageCounselor.com
Press Release
The Impact of
Shame on Relationships
Barbi Pecenco, MA
10 Simple
Ways to Make Your Partner Feel Loved
Lisa Brookes Kift, MFT
Free Marriage Counseling
"Help Guide" Now Available
Press Release
Review of Marriage Fitness by Mort Fertel
Chris Hartwell, MSW
5 Tips to Get the Most Out of Marriage Counseling by
Lisa Kift, LMFT
Long lasting, successful marriages
can be hard work and it's normal for couples to encounter rough
waters at times. In fact, it's inevitable. Having witnessed all
types of couples with all sorts of attitudes, I've been able to
identify some things that people pondering marriage counseling
should consider prior to beginning the process. If you're
considering seeing a therapist, these points will help you and
your partner get the most out of your time, effort and money!
Choosing a Marriage Counselor: 8 Aspects to Consider by
Lisa Kift, LMFT
If your marriage is in trouble - or if you're simply looking for
more effective ways to communicate with your spouse - counseling can be a great option. So how does one go about
choosing a counselor?
Marriage Counseling Overview
by Theresa Anderson
Marriage counseling is a valuable
opportunity for couples who want to build a healthy and
long-lasting relationship. It can be a worthwhile investment for
the long-term, providing couples with the skills and strategies
they need to manage life together in a healthy way.
Getting Married? 6 Great Reasons to Get Premarital
Counseling by Lisa Kift, LMFT
Most couples spend more time planning their weddings than their
marriages! With divorce rates at an all time high, it seems that
couples are facing more challenges than ever in preserving their
relationship stability. Lisa goes on to explain good reasons for
premarital counseling and some of its benefits.
Key Steps to Success
in Counseling by Dr. Noah H. Kersey Ph.D. A well-written guide with some widely accepted principles that
help lead to success in the counseling process.
Has
Your Marriage Therapist Ever Been in Therapy? by Jay Slupesky, MA, LMFT.
Jay Slupesky writes about the benefits of having a marriage
therapist who has done their own work in therapy.
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Effectiveness of Couples
Counseling by Misty Will, MSW
Couple's counseling is based on the premise that individuals and
their problems are best handled within the context of the couple's
relationship. Married couples today feel increasingly isolated and
are expected to manage their lives and families without the
community supports that in the past were a primary resource in
raising children and meeting family needs. Couples in our present
culture are less bound by family traditions and are freer than
ever before to develop relationships unlike those of the families
that they were raised in.
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Premarital counseling can help to
set the foundation for a great relationship, and many therapists
have experience in this area. Browse our directory to find a
counselor in your area. For couples looking for premarital
guidance, but not yet ready to work with a live therapist, be sure
to have a look at
Lisa
Kift's Premarital Counseling Workbook.
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Understanding Gender and Culture within the Context of Spirituality:
Implications for Counselors by Sue Passalacqua and Joseph M. Cervantes Examines roles that gender, culture and spirituality play in
elements of therapeutic process. It presents an initial
literature review on gender, culture and spirituality as these
factors relate to shaping identities and defining one's
behavior. Discussions on how these three dimensions influence
the level of understanding and effective responsiveness that
competent, counseling professionals need to consider in a
culturally and spiritually diverse society are presented.
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Showing Empathy in Your Marriage A great way to work on your relationship with your spouse is to practice empathizing. Showing empathy can improve your communication as well as your emotional intimacy. It takes some practice at first to show empathy if it is not something you are used to, but the benefits can pay off.
An Arrangement of Marriages from Psychology Today
Presents David H. Olson's research on happy couples and
unhappy couples. Basic types of marriages; Characteristics of good
marriages; Characteristics of bad marriages; Stressed marriages
abound; Marital partners; Seven distinct profiles of families;
Complexity of marriage relationships; Weaknesses couples should
address.
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The Family & Marriage Counseling
Directory provides access to more than just local therapists in
your area. Online counseling can involve the use of a messaging
or a "chat" type interface, with or without a webcam,
and the therapists near the top of
our online counseling page
are available for this type of session.
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Relationship
Counseling : Safety First by Rabbi Shlomo Slatkin MS, LGPC Therapy traditionally focuses on solving problems and, in a
conflict, there is likely to be a winner and a loser. There are
couples who sigh at the thought of counseling as they doubt
there is any hope for resolving their differences. While some
may choose to terminate the relationship, we would much prefer a
couple to stay together. With a whopping national divorce rate,
new methods of approaching marital conflict are necessary.
Ten Characteristics of Successful Relationships by Lisa Kift, MFT Lisa Kift is a couples' therapist who identifies ten characteristics
of successful relationships. She finds that these qualities are
integral parts of a healthy relationship foundation and believes
that they increase the chances of weathering the storms that life
inevitably dishes out.
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The Importance of Establishing a Family Budget
How well do you manage your family's budget? All of those little amounts of money you spend will add up to a lot of money over the course of several years. Whether it's a few dollars a day on coffee, a few hundred dollars each month on dining out, or a few thousand each years on vacations, it will add up to a substantial amount of money before you reach retirement.
Ten Acts of Courage For Parents of
Children With Eating Disorders by Joanna Poppink, MFT
Creating a healthy family system surrounds the eating disorder
child with an environment that supports her recovery. All family
systems have strengths and weaknesses, and many dysfunctional
families do not give rise to a child with an eating disorder.
Nevertheless, while a dysfunctional family does not create an
eating disorder, a family that strives to be as honest and healthy
as possible can help a child with an eating disorder to heal.
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How to Handle
Infidelity in a Marriage by Dr. Brenda Shoshanna
Dr. Shoshanna discusses the difficult problem and steps couples can take to
recover from infidelity, emotional infidelity, and pornography addiction.
Saving Your Relationship: Healing from Infidelity by Lisa Kift, LMFT
For those who are not able to move past this transgression, it can represent the
death of the relationship. The breach of trust is simply too much for some to
bear which is completely understandable. However, for those who want to try to
move past this event and rebuild their relationship foundation - there is hope.
But it requires hard work and a commitment to the process.
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