Marriage Family Counseling - Keeping Marriages Strong & Families Together

Good marriages are foundational to happy and healthy families. Keeping marriages strong and working through challenges successfully can help a family thrive. Marriages are constantly faced with challenges today. Whether it is communication problems, infidelity, parenting, substance abuse, or loss of a family member, marriage family counseling has many benefits. Not only does marriage family counseling help in working through problems, it enhances relationships and opens up lines of communication. One of the most common complaints of couples is that they do not feel heard or understood by their partners. A marriage family therapist can help couples and family members communicate in such a way that they can understand, accept, and respect one another’s perspective. They can begin to feel safe in sharing their feelings and thoughts. They can draw closer than they imagined possible.

Marriage family counseling also reduces the chance of problems becoming worse, and relationships drifting, becoming damaged, or marriages ending in divorce. Research has found that professional counseling improves relationships and the physical and mental health of all family members is significantly improved.

Marriage family counseling has many benefits to those who want to build strong, healthy, and happy marriages. Great relationships do not just happen. There is investment involved, that is, investment of time, effort, and sacrifice. Some of the most successful marriages and closest, happiest families are those that have undergone some of the most difficult times and committed to work on them together.

Getting help to improve or save a marriage is one of the wisest, most loving things a couple can do for their own well-being, for their children and families, and for their future. No marriage or family need suffer from the pressures of unresolved problems that lead to even bigger problems. Help is available and it can make a difference for life!

Copyright © 2009 New Day Counseling Services
written by Krystal Kuehn, MA, LPC, LLP, NCC

Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads which sew people together through the years. ~Simone Signoret

Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success. ~Henry Ford

Divorce Counseling: Getting Through Divorce with Hope

No one gets married thinking they will get divorced some day. Most people have goals and dreams of being together forever, raising a family, and sharing life for better or for worse. They plan on being a team, growing together, and supporting one another. But somewhere along the line, they hit bumps in the road. They come up against walls, floods, and storms. Their marriage is put to the test. They are challenged to work together on successfully making it through problems and restoring their relationship. But this doesn’t always happen. Sometimes one partner abandons the relationship and will not return. Or, there is abuse that destroys all love and respect. Whatever the reason, divorce happens.

Divorce is not an easy option. Rather, it is a very difficult and painful one. Sometimes it seems to be the best option or the healthiest one. Divorce changes lives forever. Its pain is deep and its loss is great. To get through it is a grieving process. There are emotions of anger, guilt, worry, and denial that are normal and part of the healing process. Accepting these feelings and talking to someone who cares and understands can help in making a healthy adjustment. It takes time to adjust to the many changes that you will face. You may have to adjust to changes in your housing, family finances, holidays and celebrations, and family traditions to name just a few.

Although divorce marks the end of a marriage, it is the beginning of a new life for you. The consequences and challenges can be faced with courage, hope, and peace. Divorce counseling can help you through the healing process. Divorce counseling can provide the support and guidance you need to make a healthy adjustment during this difficult time. You can enter this new phase of life with confidence. It does not have to destroy you. You can be free of guilt, fear, and shame. You can dream new dreams. You can embrace life and truly live and love again. You can be whole and happy. You can learn and become better. You can rise up in strength and see your best days ahead of you.

Copyright © 2009 All Rights Reserved. NewDayCounseling.org
Providing Divorce Counseling services in the Metro Detroit Area; Troy, Michigan