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What is Marriage Counseling? - Marriage counseling is a process of change. Clients and therapists work together to determine the marital problems, examine existing patterns, set goals for the changes the clients desire, and teach ways to reach those goals. Sometimes clients choose to work on one or two specific problems that they would like to solve, or sometimes they want to change the entire atmosphere of their marriage. Often there are long-standing issues that are causing current problems. The therapists are there to act as facilitators to reach the client's goals.
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Husband and Wife Team - We work together as a team in our couple to couple retreats. This style of marriage counseling is very effective for many reasons, among which is the balance of male-female energy, the value of two therapists' insights and knowledge, and the role modeling of a healthy, caring yet not always agreeing relationship.
Traditional marriage counseling separates the couple. Either they are seen one at a time by the same therapist or they seek out two different counselors. Working together in a couples retreat, we've found that many couples stay together, where in the traditional analytical process separation and divorce often occur. |
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Intensive Marriage Retreats
Marriage Quest features a three-day retreat of intensive marriage counseling, with the continual interaction of the four team members. During this intensive couples retreat, a process of open communication is started, something that is generally lacking in problem marriages. This is our preferred style of marriage counseling. It's effective and it works!
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Marriage and Family Therapy - While many therapists offer counseling, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists are different from other counselors in that they have specific training and certifications for working with couples on marriage problems… training in communication skills, intimacy and sexuality, and in marriage repair and recovery.
Trained and licensed MFT counselors work with three clients, the marriage relationship as well as each individual. Israel Helfand, PhD, LMFT, and his wife Cathie Helfand, MS have been working together as marriage therapists for more than twenty years.
The American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy (AAMFT) was founded in 1942 to maintain standards for the practice of marriage and family therapy. Its stringent education and supervised training standards have been adopted by most states and the federal government as the basis for licensure for MFTs. Israel Helfand, is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, has been a clinical member of the American Association of Marriage and Family Therapy since 1984, and has supervised therapists in training as well as been a college instructor. For more information on AAMFT go to www.aamft.org
All sorts of Couples - We have worked with married, divorced, cohabiting, premarital, and same sex couples, roommates, business partners, and more. We have helped traditional couples as well as those in alternative relationships. We have worked with couples in long-term relationships, and those who are "going steady." The problems may seem to be different, but the truth is there are more similarities than differences.
