Relationship Counseling, Ann Mancuso, Ph.D., Individual Counseling

Relationship Counseling:

Every relationship goes through struggles,

.........Strong relationships get through them.

Relationship Counseling - "We were created for social connection. We are at our best when we have healthy relationships with people who genuinely care about us, respect us, and lift us up." --Robyn L. Gobin

Relationship counseling includes, marriage counseling, premarital counseling and parent-child counseling.

Relationship Counseling

Many people believe that you should only seek relationship counseling when separation or divorce are looming. But that is often too little, too late. Relationship Counseling should begin as soon as the problems get in the way of your daily life. Here are some generic signs that you might benefit from a consultation:

You have trouble expressing your feelings to one another
You have one or more unresolved issues
There is withdrawal, criticism, or contempt in your interactions
A stressful event has shaken your daily life
You have trouble making decisions together
You experienced infidelity, addiction or there is the potential for abuse
You want a stronger, more loving relationship

Remember that there are no wrong reasons to seek relationship counseling. Some couples start therapy as soon as they are married, even without obvious problems, to prevent serious problems from developing. Therapy can serve to enhance your communication skills and help to develop a stronger relationship.

Relationship Counseling - Marriage Counseling

Marital Conflicts

Marriage counseling can help couples in all types of intimate relationships — regardless of sexual orientation or marriage status.

Marriage counseling or couples therapy helps couples of all types recognize and resolve conflicts and improve their relationship. Couples seek marital counseling to improve a troubled relationship and to help with many specific issues including, communication problems, sexual difficulties, parenting conflicts and infidelity.

Marriage counseling can also help to rebuild and strengthen a relationship. Some couples seek marriage counseling to strengthen their partnership and gain a better understanding of one another.

“What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are, but how you deal with incompatibility”

–Leo Tolstoy

Relationship Counseling - Premarital Counseling

Premarital counseling can help couples to enter into a long-term commitment. It can help couples to identify and address potential areas of conflict in their relationship.

Premarital counseling focuses on helping couples develop a strong and healthy rRelationship before marriage and identify any potential problems that might lead to issues down the road. These issues could include, clarification of roles and responsibilities, finances and budgeting, communication and parenting.

Premarital counseling is a good way to establish realistic expectations and healthy communication that gets marriage off to a good start.

“Couples considering marriage must embrace its precepts; mutual respect and trust, and the need for compromise”

–Frank Tarsia

Relationship Counseling - Parent Child Counseling

All parents and their children experience conflict, which is healthy and normal. However, if the conflict you have with your child is causing a great deal of stress and other negative emotions, it may be time to consider professional help.

Parent Child counseling is effective in helping families to resolve conflict issues. Addressing conflicts early, can avoid long-term problematic patterns. Rather than being a challenge, a conflict can be viewed as an opportunity to figures out what is going on under the surface and develop new and healthier ways to communicate.

“At the end of the day, the most overwhelming key to a child’s success is the positive involvement of parents.”

–Jane D. Hull

"The extent to which two people in a relationship can bring up and resolve issues is a critical marker of the soundness of a relationship" --Henry Cloud