Intensive Couples Therapy is a short-term, intensive intervention that creates an organized structure for understanding and working through a major crisis that seriously threatens the health of the relationship. Conducted for 8 hours a day over a 2-5 day period, it clarifies the origin of the crisis and the immediate steps that must be taken to protect the relationship. The process encourages a shift from “ending” the relationship to “recommitting” to it in new and different ways.
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Through Confidential Video Conferencing, your marriage and your relationship can have immediate access to reliable, effective research-based techniques that in the comfort of your own home, can change your relationship from avoidance to engagement, and from criticism and name calling to listening and expressing feelings. CLICK HERE for the Confidential Video Conferencing page.

The Group Seminar Program is one of many tools offered by Sherwood Couples Counseling. It is a series of structured, learning opportunities where you and your partner learn and master the skills to address rather than to avoid the conflicts in your relationship. Seminar Programs are 3-hour programs divided into 3 parts: Lecture Presentation; Experiential Exercise; and Question and Answer Summary Session. CLICK HERE to go to the Group Seminars page.

Couples who can talk about all aspects of the affair are able to gain valuable insights into themselves and their partners as they come to understand how unmet needs and unresolved injuries of the past created an emotional climate of disengagement that ultimately led to the affair. These couples understand that habitual avoidance of talking about the affair will either lead to divorce or commit them to a life of avoidance, denial and misery. CLICK HERE for the Infidelity page.

Parent/Child problems can be a burden to the marriage and relationship especially if parents are in conflict. Learn how a child’s problems are sometimes a reflection of parental conflict and how, through effective communication parents can set boundaries that are both appropriate for the child and consistent with their own personal and family values. CLICK HERE for the Parent/Child Problems page.

The Collaborative Approach to Divorce is a mutually respectful, cooperative and constructive way to terminate and dissolve a marriage. It is for couples who do not want to fight, who are willing to negotiate and make compromises and who wish to end their marriage in a dignified and respectful way. CLICK HERE to go to the Collaborative Divorce page.

Having gone through the exhausting and emotionally painful demands of divorce, parents with children then face the necessity of forming a new relationship, the Co-parenting Relationship. Forming healthy co-parenting relationships is difficult for most divorced parents, but it is much more difficult for children when they don’t. CLICK HERE for the Co-parenting page.

As an expert witness I am often asked to assess families in conflict and to report findings, observations, and psychologically grounded opinions to the Court with recommendations for containing and resolving parental conflict and for custody and visitation matters that are in the best interests of the child. CLICK HERE to go to the Court Custody Cases page.

Anxiety symptoms can disrupt and endanger your relationships and over time, can lead to major psychological and medical problems. If you think anxiety is taking over your life and is robbing you and your partner of the enjoyment and confidence that you deserve consider how individual and Couples Counseling can help. CLICK HERE for the Anxiety page.

Depression needs to be treated. If it is not it can have a negative impact on your relationship and deprive you and your partner of the joy and happiness you deserve. CLICK HERE for the Depression page.

Alcohol and drug addiction is a chronic disease that worsens over time and causes physical health to degenerate. If addiction is part of the conflict between you and your partner separate treatment will be necessary as a condition to Couples Counseling. CLICK HERE for the Alcohol and Drug Addiction page.

Uncontrolled and inappropriately expressed anger is a major problem in relationships and weakens the sense of trust and goodwill necessary for a healthy marriage. If these problems are part of your relational difficulties, it will be necessary to address anger and behavioral issues first in order to establish a sense of safety as a condition for Couples Counseling. CLICK HERE for more information on that page.

Traumatic experiences such as violent crimes, combat experiences, major motor vehicle accidents, mass shootings, natural disasters, physical abuse, sexual molestation and rape, often lead to PTSD, a severe and debilitating anxiety disorder that can be life-crippling. The presence of PTSD can have a major impact on the health of a relationship and often has to be treated before Couples Counseling can begin. CLICK HERE to go to the PTSD & Trauma Page.

This is a crippling and disabling psychiatric condition that comes from a persistent and negative pattern of thoughts, feelings and behaviors, which then lead to negative inner feelings and negative self-defeating behaviors. BPD can have a major negative effect on intimate relationships and may have to be treated clinically before Couples Counseling can begin. CLICK HERE for more information from the Borderline Personality Disorder page.

When we hide our grief we suffer silently and alone, often to protect others who do not fully understand the depth of our loss. Grief Counseling opens a very personal conversation, not just with the therapist but with those you have lost. It is a reconciliation of past losses with the hope for the future. CLICK HERE to go to the Grief Counseling page.

Prior to beginning Couples Counseling there may be other conditions such as depression or anxiety that need to be stabilized through counseling and medication.Where possible, Sherwood Couples Counseling will assist all clients in finding a licensed psychiatrist or other physician who can assist in prescribing the necessary medications to help stabilize those disorders and conditions. CLICK HERE to go to the Psychiatric Referrals page.

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