Isn’t It Worth One Counseling
Session To Save Your Marriage?
Studies Show Single Session Counseling Can Be Highly Effective and Rewarding.
When your relationship is in trouble, you may need a concentrated effort that delves deep into issues and stops the emotional bleeding that can cause irreparable damage.
Many of our patients get a great benefit from only one extended session of couples counseling. When you set a goal for our therapist to address your relationship issues in one session, we have the experience and the skills to help make that goal a reality.
Single session counseling can be very productive for couples because they tend to get right to the heart of their issues quickly.
Our counselor will help you peel through the superficial issues that are covering up your real underlying problems. Then the counselor will demonstrate new skills to address your problems. Before you wrap up the session our counselor will give you both some homework and will schedule a follow up phone call. The follow up call will allow you and our counselor to evaluate the success of the session and see if it was effective for changing the trajectory of your relationship.
These intensive sessions are good for couples who have a limited budget or who lack the time to come to weekly sessions. Brief counseling is a growing field of marriage counseling that meets the needs of many couples.
Our single session intensives are extended sessions that last 90 minutest. The fee is 200 dollars.
Can a relationship with years of problems be changed in only a day?
When you both wish your relationship could be saved, the chance of a successful outcome in an intensive 90 minute session is excellent. Even if only one of you is deeply committed to saving the relationship, chances are still good.
Often a couple just needs to change the trajectory of their relationship. Sometimes a few crucial insights and learning new modes of communication can dramatically change the direction a marriage is headed.
We have helped nearly 1000 couples save their marriages and heal their families over more than twenty years in practice.
We put you and your spouse on a crash program to learn effective communication skills. These are skills you were never taught:
- How to listen without being defensive.
- How to get your point across without demeaning your partner.
- How to protect yourself when your partner uses abusive or
demeaning language.
The chance to save your marriage is worth the drive to our offices.
If you live anywhere from Northern Virginia to Upstate New York, you are less than a three-hour-drive to our office. You may find that you no longer have the time to try out many therapists in your area who do not have the focus and experience that we have. One long day trip may to A Center For Marriage Counseling may be well worth the trip.
At critical periods in a relationship you do not get second chances, often by the time you are considering counseling you have already been through many trials, the marriage has had it’s second and third changes to heal. At this point you know you need a completely different way of communicating with your partner and it must stick for the long haul.
Most people follow similar patterns of behavior with all types of relationships. Often they get out of one bad relationship only to find out that the next relationship they establish has the same underlying problems.
If you listen to my interview on the side of this page you will hear me say “I don’t save marriages, I save people” If you come into therapy with one goal — that you must have our staff save your marriage – you are too focused on factors that lie outside of your own control. If you come into counseling with the understanding that by improving your own relationship skills you will be a better partner in any relationship no matter what happens with your current marriage – your chances of saving your marriage increase tremendously.
If you want to save your marriage and your spouse has given up hope and does not want to come with you, we urge you and your spouse to call us for a free consultation. We will fully explain how we work, what our methods are and what you can expect. I can tell you from years of experience that many people who come here devoid of all hope leave energized and full of enthusiasm because they at least have a clear understanding of what is wrong how they contributed to the problem.
Most of the time couples have no idea what is actually hurting their relationship. They make assumptions and react to surface issues.
Often underlying issues such as an overall inability of one spouse to vocalize his or her emotional needs can lead to a spiral of problems that erupt with deep feelings of resentment and frustration. Other times a spouse will carry bad habits learned from work or old relationships that poison the air in the relationship. Sarcasm, mild put downs, or even just an unfounded lack of trust can make a relationship intolerable after many years of tiny jabs and accusations.
“Stonewalling” is another dysfunctional tactic that infects a relationship. One partner will stonewall the other and shut them out completely from having any emotional impact on them because they feel frustrated. Stonewalling makes a bad situation worse. We show couples how to address stonewalling and find better ways to resolve issues.
We teach couples how to confront each other with a “sandwich”. Sandwiches are confrontations that simultaneously confront and support the person you are talking to. You need to confront your spouse with respect and kindness, but you also need to make sure that you are heard. This is a very difficult skill to learn, and we give you the fundamentals for developing this skill. We then follow-up with phone sessions to make sure you are both practicing your new skills.
When couples learn what is really causing problems in the relationship they can finally start working at the roots of issues instead of blaming everything on the petty issues that are just flash point for problems. Smart couples welcome the opportunity to learn and adapt to new information so that they can finally give their marriage that one last chance to succeed.
We do not offer compromises and mutual agreements. We offer an opportunity to identify and work out issues that have the potential to permanently change the entire emotional experience of you marriage. Love lost can be regained when you can re-experience the emotions that you both felt when your marriage began. These feelings are never lost. They are just hidden by more painful emotions that grew out of bad habits, ingrained thought processes and poor communication skills. When you eliminate the toxic cloud of painful emotions, old feelings can come up that you have not felt in years. Often times couples feel old feelings of love and romance shortly after their first day in our offices.
Take the first step towards a better relationship. Pick up the phone and make that important first call. We are here to help you.
Sincerely,
Jacqueline Summers,
M.S. & The Counselors at Philadelphia Area Couples Counseling Alliance
Relationship Counseling and Couples Counseling
888-242-1720
Marriage Counselors located in the Philadelphia Area including:
Havertown, Bryn Mawr PA, Paoli, Malvern, Newtown Suqare, 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.
