Couples Therapy
Journey Counseling works with couples who struggle to communicate, who want to learn new skills to make their relationships flourish, and who want to find a way through a crisis. Couples therapy is a guided session to help you improve your communication with each other and to learn how to solve problems impairing your relationship.
Gail has in-depth training in couples therapy. She is a member of the Couple’s Institute under the direction of Dr. Ellyn Bader and Dr. Peter Pearson. Your sessions are customized to explore and support your change in how you relate to each other.
Marriage & Relationship Counseling
Regardless of how long you’ve been a couple, you can benefit from upgrades to your communication and negotiation skills. Don’t let complaints, old fights, and disillusionment kill off the spark of love and commitment. Fights are pleas for change, but the likelihood of getting what you want is nearly zero—unless you know how to do them productively. Let Journey Counseling coach you into more productive ways of relating.
Couples Intensive
This innovative approach gives you a “deep dive” into problem solving over a 1 or 2-day session. Your Couples Intensive starts the moment you commit, with pre-session assessments. These support the work we do together, maximize your investment, and focus the work on the skill development your relationship needs most.
The Couples Intensive option is customized to your schedule. Contact us today to find out more about this productive option to break through tough issues. Research shows the changes are profound and lasting.
Affair Repair
Infidelity is damaging to a relationship, but it is survivable. It works best if you and your partner participate together in working through the issues. In affair repair sessions, we will work through problems of the past, present, and future to reestablish trust after the deception.
Support for Addiction Recovery
For a couple adjusting to recovery or relapse, there are specialized tools designed to support you both in making adjustments to work through the changes that come with recovery.
Marriage Prep
Getting married is an exciting time. There are many projects demanding your attention from engagement parties to finding a dress and a tux to planning the ceremony to looking forward to gathering with friends and family on that most special of days! Those are the sweet rituals that make the process of joining your lives thrilling.
One caution is to not get so distracted with all the details that you forget to do for the most important project, emotionally joining as partners. Marriage Prep is a 3-hour customized session that gives you an overview of 12 vital topics to compare how you relate, to each other, to your families, to your dreams about the future, and how you deal with conflict and upset. Starting the process begins with a questionnaire you each complete and send back for review. Then we meet and talk about each of the 12-topics. When you finish the course, you have a certificate to give to your church or officiant. This is also a great way to work on marriage enrichment after the wedding when you could use some help working out how we talk and live together.
Divorce Coaching
If the work you do to try to save your marriage leads you to conclude that you’d rather be “unmarried”, then Journey Counseling can be your advocate, helping you to work through the emotional issues that make divorce difficult. This process is organized around a team who help you every step of the way. Collaborative Divorce attorneys work together to help you work toward a settlement that meets the interests of both parties. Partners getting divorced in the Collaborative process are more satisfied with their future relationship on the other side of marriage. When we need to work together to maintain a positive environment for the children involved in a divorce, you will have paved the way for a more workable relationship moving forward. Call Gail at Journey Counseling to hear more about the successes of divorce coaching in the Collaborative process or to set up an appointment.
Marriage & Relationship Counseling
Regardless of how long you’ve been a couple, you can benefit from upgrades to your communication and negotiation skills. Don’t let complaints, old fights, and disillusionment kill off the spark of love and commitment. Fights are pleas for change, but the likelihood of getting what you want is nearly zero—unless you know how to do them productively. Let Journey Counseling coach you into more productive ways of relating.
Couples Intensive
This innovative approach gives you a “deep dive” into problem solving over a 1 or 2-day session. Your Couples Intensive starts the moment you commit, with pre-session assessments. These support the work we do together, maximize your investment, and focus the work on the skill development your relationship needs most.
The Couples Intensive option is customized to your schedule. Contact us today to find out more about this productive option to break through tough issues. Research shows the changes are profound and lasting.
Affair Repair
Infidelity is damaging to a relationship, but it is survivable. It works best if you and your partner participate together in working through the issues. In affair repair sessions, we will work through problems of the past, present, and future to reestablish trust after the deception.
Support for Addiction Recovery
For a couple adjusting to recovery or relapse, there are specialized tools designed to support you both in making adjustments to work through the changes that come with recovery.
Marriage Prep
Getting married is an exciting time. There are many projects demanding your attention from engagement parties to finding a dress and a tux to planning the ceremony to looking forward to gathering with friends and family on that most special of days! Those are the sweet rituals that make the process of joining your lives thrilling.
One caution is to not get so distracted with all the details that you forget to do for the most important project, emotionally joining as partners. Marriage Prep is a 3-hour customized session that gives you an overview of 12 vital topics to compare how you relate, to each other, to your families, to your dreams about the future, and how you deal with conflict and upset. Starting the process begins with a questionnaire you each complete and send back for review. Then we meet and talk about each of the 12-topics. When you finish the course, you have a certificate to give to your church or officiant. This is also a great way to work on marriage enrichment after the wedding when you could use some help working out how we talk and live together.
Divorce Coaching
If the work you do to try to save your marriage leads you to conclude that you’d rather be “unmarried”, then Journey Counseling can be your advocate, helping you to work through the emotional issues that make divorce difficult. This process is organized around a team who help you every step of the way. Collaborative Divorce attorneys work together to help you work toward a settlement that meets the interests of both parties. Partners getting divorced in the Collaborative process are more satisfied with their future relationship on the other side of marriage. When we need to work together to maintain a positive environment for the children involved in a divorce, you will have paved the way for a more workable relationship moving forward. Call Gail at Journey Counseling to hear more about the successes of divorce coaching in the Collaborative process or to set up an appointment.