Women’s Counseling — Relationship Counseling
Address Relationship Concerns With Greater Confidence, Affect Positive Change and Move Forward in Your Life

Are you experiencing conflicts, hurt feelings, commitment difficulties or general disconnectedness in your relationship with a spouse, partner or family member? Do you have trouble communicating with your partner? Do you feel like you’re headed toward divorce?
Negative Effects of a Stressed Relationship May Include:
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Relationship counseling will provide you with a listening ear so you can talk about what isn’t working. Talking is the first step. Being really heard is the second. Discovering new ways to analyze and consider your relationship is the beginning of therapy. You will learn how to stop walking on eggs with your partner; how to communicate more clearly; how to ask for what you want and to get it. We’ll help you gain new insight into your thoughts, perceptions and expectations. We’ll also offer possible alternative interpretations to help you to determine where your power and your responsibility lie within the relationship. We’ll empower you to make positive changes.
You’ll learn to effectively explore differences with your partner and then to exercise your options of acceptance or change. Through therapeutic interventions and skill building, you will be empowered to make your own decisions regarding what you perceive to be best for you.
Our Relationship Counseling Provides You with Many Advantages:
- Supportive Listening — We’ll provide you with a safe and confidential place to discuss issues you may not be comfortable talking about with your family or friends. You’ll have the opportunity to talk about your anger and sadness, your thoughts, beliefs, fears and concerns. You’ll receive the support you need to make positive changes within the most important and intimate relationships in your life.
- A Fresh and Objective Perspective — You’ll receive our professional, trained perspective and observations about your relationship together with possible alternative interpretations that may help you better understand why you’re experiencing stress or discord.
- Greater Self Knowledge and More Confidence — Through our services, you will acquire a stronger position to take the steps that you determine to be those that will be the best for you. We will guide you in exploring your deepest values and beliefs, in assessing your inner strengths and identifying new sources of additional support. You will learn to appreciate your personal power to accept or to create change and develop confidence in your ability to make wise decisions about the relationship.
- How to Deal More Effectively With Conflict — Through counseling, you will gain greater insight into your communication style and patterns of behavior within your relationships. You will learn more effective ways to listen and to be heard; how to be assertive without being aggressive. You will learn to respectfully stand up for yourself and to be comfortable doing it. You’ll learn how to ask for what you really want. You’ll learn to be respectful and kind and to know that it is your perfect right to expect the same within a healthy relationship.
- How to Improve Connection and Intimacy — Poor communication is a major cause of disconnection and loss of intimacy. Through our services, you’ll learn new ways to foster real closeness; to address the hardness, anger and barriers that may have developed over time. You’ll stop feeling like you’re walking on eggs within your relationship. You’ll know that it’s ok to want to be happy and you’ll gain the confidence to take positive steps toward a more satisfying relationship.
- How to Have a Mature and Mutually Respectful Relationship — You’ll gain new tools that will enable you to really look at the things that have led to the current state of affairs in your relationship. With this insight, you’ll learn skills, techniques and proven methods that can help lead to improvement. You’ll come to know what you can do… and what you can’t do. You’ll learn to communicate more effectively and thereby gain a better understanding of your partner’s real wants and needs and his or her level of commitment to the relationship. This will lead you, again, to an understanding of your personal power and responsibility within the relationship. With this understanding you will better know how to move forward with confidence.
- Safe, Secure and Private Meetings — We offer a safe and confidential place for you to openly discuss the most intimate and private areas of your life knowing that what you share will be treated with the respect and importance it deserves.


