Is Saving Your Marriage

Worth One Counseling Session?

Studies Show Single Session Counseling Can Be Highly Effective and Rewarding

When your relationship is in deep trouble, you may need a concentrated effort that delves more deeply into issues, teaches communication and problem-solving skills, sends you home with a plan, and soothes the emotional pain.

Choose: 

          A Two-Hour Intensive

                Or An Even More Comprensive

          Half-Day Intensive

A Two-Hour Intensive

allows time with a skilled, caring therapist to work on your issues in a safe, supportive environment and to learn powerful communication skills.

Extended sessions help couples with a limited budget or that lack the time to come to weekly sessions. Sometimes a couple lives too far away to come weekly.

Follow-up sessions are always available.  Brief counseling is a growing field of marriage counseling that meets the needs of many couples.

A Half-Day Intensive

can be an extremely satisfying and empowering experience, especially for a couple in crisis when there has been the discovery of an affair or when one partner is threatening to leave.Repairing a relationship that is on the rocks deserves ample time to get to the heart of the matter.
Intensive counseling offers valuable tools for dealing with issues that seem unbearable and irresolvable. 
Together, the three of us collaborate to understand your needs and values, examine existing patterns, and set goals for the changes you desire.  There is time to work through deep feelings and rehearse new skills. The fee is $595 for four hours of counseling.
While many couples choose this approach because of the crisis they find themselves in, others just want to make a more significant investment of time in their marriage.  They choose a Half-Day Intensive to get a jump-start on the road to healing their relationship.
Issues such as infidelity, difficulty expressing needs, sexual problems, and loss of trust can cause a couple to slowly, insidiously drift apart. 
The process is deep and meaningful.  We will guide you though areas, which may have been too hot to handle by yourselves, help you to reconnect, and take your relationship to a healthier, more intimate level. 
After the session, you'll be practicing new communication skills and talking with each other in a deeper, more connected way about your hopes and dreams.

Why Are Our Half-Day Intensives Unique?

Our couples do not meet in a group with other couples.  This in-depth counseling experience is private and tailored specifically for you.

You'll Learn How To:

Rebuild Trust
Resolve conflicts in a collaborative way
Heal past hurts and wounds
Use powerful communication skills

We’ll help you peel through superficial issues that may be covering up underlying problems.  Then we will demonstrate new skills and have ample time to rehearse them.  Before wrapping up the session, you will be given homework to improve the relationship.  We will schedule a free 15-minute follow-up phone call two weeks after the session.

The Pain Of Infidelity

The truth is out, and the pain is excruciating.  He has made
love or been emotionally intimate with another woman.  You are crushed and enraged.  You blame him.  You blame the other woman.  Then you blame yourself.  You want to leave him, but you still love him.  How can you live with yourself if you stay?  You want to know the details, but you can’t bear to listen. His apologies seem woefully inadequate, especially after all the lies.

The discovery of infidelity often tears a marriage apart and leads to a cold relationship or an instant initiation of divorce.
We have helped many couples rebuild trust and commitment.  

It is possible to start again, but it takes a willingness to understand what went wrong and to learn new ways to relate. A half-day intensive can help you recover from the devastation and build a stronger, deeper relationship out of the rubble.

Why Do Some Couples Put Off Counseling
For So Many Years?

Sometimes couples are afraid the therapist will take sides or blame one of them.  I stay focused on supporting you in your specific relationship goals.  I honor each person’s separate reality while teaching skills to achieve a mutually satisfying relationship.

Can A Relationship That’s Had Years of Problems Be Changed In A Day?

Often a couple just needs to change the trajectory of the relationship.  A few crucial insights and learning new modes of communication can dramatically change the direction a marriage is headed.

I have helped thousands of couples save their relationships  and heal their families over more than twenty-five years in practice.

The chance to save your marriage is worth the drive to my office.

If you live anywhere from Northern Virginia to Upstate New York, you are less than a three-hour-drive away.   

Without counseling, people that move on to other relationships usually make the same mistakes all over again.  Fifty-five percent of first marriages fail, and sixty-five percent of second marriages fail.  How sad that couples that long for a warm and gratifying love relationship often needlessly end up alone and broken-hearted.

Good Counseling Can Help You Create The Relationship Of Your Dreams

Sara and Bill came to a session feeling angry, exasperated, and at their wits end.  They had been quarreling more frequently lately, and neither felt heard or appreciated.  They found themselves growing further and further apart. 
Sara and Bill learned to confront each other with a “softened start-up.”  John Gottman, an eminent research psychologist in the state of Washington, studied couples for many years.  He made an important observation.  If you begin with a “harsh start-up,’ you are likely to create distance, withdrawal, or escalation.  According to Gottman, this type of  interaction is a predictor of divorce.  As one discouraged man told me,  “I didn't marry to have a life-long enemy.”

Most people who arrive at my office with little hope leave energized, optimistic, and eager to try now skills.  They have a clearer understanding of what went wrong, how they contributed to the problem, and what they can do differently.

We Put You And Your Partner On A Crash Program To Learn Effective Communication Skills

     How to listen without being defensive
     How to argue without demeaning each other
     How to nourish each other and re-awaken love

Follow-Up

I am always there to help you continue the improvement of your relationship.

I offer scheduled counseling sessions at my office or by phone.

This is your opportunity to work through painful feelings and issues before it’s too late. 

Whether it’s to renew and awaken your fading love, repair a marriage that is ready to fall apart, or make a major relationship decision, we can help you gain insights into your personal situation while teaching you healthy communication skills to keep your disagreements focused and fair. 

Experience what many couples have found to be a satisfying, comfortable, private, cost-effective and time- efficient way to nourish and heal your marriage/relationship. Regain intimacy, trust and romance.

Take the first step towards a better relationship. Pick up the phone and make that important call. I'm here to help you.

Sincerely,

Jacqueline Summers, M.A.,

Relationship Counseling and Couples Counseling

888-242-1720

Marriage Counselors located in the Philadelphia Area including:

Havertown, Bryn Mawr PA, Paoli, Malvern, Newtown Square, Broomall, Conshohocken, Rosemont, Narberth, Upper Darby, Wynnewood. Couples Counseling also in Gladwyne, Bala Cynwyd, King of Prussia, Fort Washington, Blue Bell PA, the Main Line, Manayunk, Chester County, Delaware County, Bucks County and Montgomery County.