Couples Therapy
You're looking for better communication and connection in your relationship...
…because this relationship wasn't supposed to feel like having a roommate or just circling around the same conflicts again and again. No matter what you try, you end up in the same patterns. You are both frustrated being stuck in a loop, and it affects your children, work, and health. You're missing out on having partnership in your relationship, you thought it would be different.
We understand how helpless you may feel, uncertain about where to go from here. We want to join you and your partner where you are and share in your journey to creating a new and different relationship together. Our therapists will assist you to unlock old patterns and help you discover new ways of communicating and connecting.
Couples therapy begins with the first few sessions as an opportunity to get to know you and your partner as both individuals and as a couple.
This period of assessment and evaluation allows the therapist to learn from you, because your story is unique. We will learn about your history and current patterns of interactions. What is your perception of what is happening?
Once we have a better idea of your areas of concern, your therapist will create a treatment plan to help you learn new skills of communicating and connecting.
Our therapists pursue training in a variety of approaches to working with couples in relationships, including Gottman Couples Method, Restoration Therapy, and Emotion Focused Therapy.
Using their training and expertise, your therapist will guide you through learning, practicing, and mastering new relationship skills.
Ask your therapist during consultation about their specific approach to working with couples.
Marriage Strong Workshop
A strong marriage can help you realize your life goals, bringing a depth and richness to your marriage as well as enhancing your effectiveness as leaders in the world. Couples who share a desire to change the world for Christ often find themselves in leadership roles. The high demands of leadership, however, can cause stress, frustration, and conflicts in relationships.
Marriage Strong is designed specifically to help couples in leadership build solid, life-giving relationships, both within their marriage and with the people they lead and serve.
This small group, 9-week-course experience is a unique opportunity for leadership couples to better their marriage, no matter the season of life or level of joy or commitment.
Contact us today if you are interested in having an ERCC therapist lead this small group workshop at your church.
Discover the truth about your marriage and how the past affects your relationships.
Identify your conflict patterns and turn destructive coping into positive interaction with your spouse and other significant relationships.
Learn how to establish healthy boundaries to guard against feelings of inadequacy, isolation, burn out, and unrealistic expectations that often exist in leadership roles.
Embrace personality differences and diverse spiritual gifts and learn how to encourage each other in spiritual and emotional growth.
Decide as a couple how you want your marriage to benefit by being in leadership positions.
Prepare & Enrich
Prepare & Enrich is a customized couple assessment that identifies a couple’s strength and growth areas. It is one of the most widely used programs for premarital counseling and premarital education. It is also used for marriage counseling, marriage enrichment, and dating couples considering engagement.
There are several goals of the Prepare & Enrich program. In order to achieve these goals, specific exercises are designed to help couples improve their relationship skills.
This program helps couples:
Explore strength and growth areas
Strengthen communication skills
Identify and manage major stressors
Resolve conflict using the Ten Step Model
Develop a more balanced relationship
Explore family of origin issues
Discuss financial planning and budgeting
Establish personal, couple and family goals
Understand and appreciate personality differences
