Marriage Counseling

People contact me for various reasons.  Some because they simply want to learn some new, productive ways of communicating to keep their relationship strong and some because they have reached a crisis point.  Some specific reasons and areas of my expertise include:

• Stuck in a repetitive argument cycle

• Lack of intimacy or wanting to improve intimacy

• Constant fighting and disagreeing due to differences

• Feeling distant or unconnected from your partner

• Infidelity 

• Financial infidelity

• Difficulty with parents and in-laws

• Difficulty with parenting issues

• Unemployment of a partner

• One partner feeling as though there is an unequal share of responsibilities

• Wanting someone in the partnership to change

• One partner has been diagnosed with ADD

• The question of, to divorce or stay married

What You’ll Learn Working With Glennon

When you work with me, you will learn a different lens through which to look at your current situation.  We will look at the current patterns of functioning and determine what is working and what isn’t working.  We will determine each persons typical response to stress and pain within the relationship and we will bring in to focus how these current responses may be hindering your growth together.  You will learn how to take yourself off of autopilot and begin to respond in more effective ways which will decrease the stress in the partnership and increase the feelings of closeness and connectedness.

Like any system in operation, marriage requires maintenance and attention.  Our fast-paced lives often help to create patterns of relating to each other that, over time, become more harmful than helpful.  Figuring out these patterns and creating a more thoughtful way of communicating and relating to each other, even for those in crisis, can strengthen any marriage.

Using a family systems approach, premarital and marriage counseling offer couples an opportunity to: