Services
Individuals - Couples - Virtual - Intensives
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Couples Services
With the right help, approach, and hard work, your marriage can be rewarding, rich, life giving, and societally beneficial. It can be vibrant and strong, as well as loving and encouraging. It can be incredibly satisfying, passionate, and intimate! The issues we address surround:
✓ Brokenness ✓ Communication
✓ Disconnectedness ✓ Financial ✓ Infidelity
✓ Intimacy ✓ Loneliness ✓ Parenting ✓ Trust
Individual Services
There's great news - your struggles are treatable! We'll teach you new coping mechanisms, how to lesson your symptoms, break free from what's holding you back, walk forward with new confidence, and enjoy life again! The issues we address surround:
✓ Anxiety ✓ Depression ✓ Life transitions
✓ Negative self image ✓ Parenting ✓ PTSD
✓ Stress ✓ Trauma
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Our approach to counseling.
“Life is difficult” – Let’s get that truth out there so we don’t have unrealistic expectations about this human experience we are all having. Life’s difficulties, its pain points, are often connected to relationships. Past or present, in the context of marriage and relationships, family, work, or culture – it’s our relationships that wound us, and it is primarily through relationships that we heal.
The core relationship we consider is that of your relationship with yourself – the self that developed and has been sustained through what you’ve come to believe about life. This self has been profoundly influenced and impacted by the myriad of relationships that you’ve had or are in currently. We look at all those relationships to discern whether you’ve come to believe a lie, a half-truth, or the dignified and core truth about yourself. The counseling relationship, to the degree a therapist has done the work him or herself, can provide a corrective relational experience and enable a move toward wholeness.
If you are a single parent – we want to come alongside you and support you with the same principles that we use in parent coaching with couples. Single parenthood and or co-parenting can be challenging. We seek to encourage and support you in navigating child-rearing in either situation.
We also focus on anxiety and depression in our practice – the other two key areas and the two most common mental health issues manifesting in society today. Anxiety and depression are normal to human existence, and much of the time “simply” an area of growth that needs to occur. We don’t look at anxiety or depression as an enemy, but as a source of vital information to be used and advance one’s life. We don’t pathologize you – we aim to strengthen and empower you.
We believe that truth is the ultimate value and something to be sought after with one’s fullness of being. Truth seeking is a cornerstone for Stronghouse Counseling and a way of engaging and facilitating the therapeutic process. As such, Stronghouse therapists are forthright in their thoughts, feelings, and opinions as it relates to the therapeutic relationship and as clinically appropriate and supportive to client well-being. We strongly encourage clients to participate in the truth-seeking process.
We are sympathetic to the difficulties of life.
Healthy relationships are foundational constructs for creating healthy individuals and thus healthy societies – we focus on creating strong relationships. Since marriage and committed relationships are essential toward this endeavor, we have marriage and couples counseling as 1 of 3 main areas of focus at Stronghouse Counseling.
In the context of couples counseling – we provide parenting support and acknowledge it as part and parcel to aiding in an individual’s development. Sometimes parenting is addressed in the context of couples counseling, and sometimes it is addressed in a separate format – most often through a parent coaching consultation. Much of counseling, and societal structures in general, are reactionary rather than preventative. We seek to be preventative at the relational, pre-marriage, and marriage level.
You have to be willing to put in the work. There is no shortcut. But if you are willing to do that, we can help you discover the ways to rekindle your original relationship excitement, sustain that excitement into your future, and live a more satisfying, intimate, and deeper relationship than you ever felt possible.
The approach we will use is eclectic, yet our core approach is Gottman Method Couples Therapy. The Gottman Method is truly evidenced based and is grounded in decades of research. We will filter your relationship through “The Sound Relationship House” assessment and counseling process – the assessment provides key relationship insights, and the process allows for learning how to resolve conflict, repair and build friendship and love, create or recreate shared meaning in life.
While we will draw upon other foundational counseling concepts, we use the Gottman Method in our own marriage and find it essential. We have found that Gottman “evidenced based” is not just a marketing catchphrase but it really works – if you do the work! We look forward to helping you create your best marriage, your best relationship, your best life! Join us on the marital and relationship journey – it’s worth it!