Seattle Hypnotherapy, Coaching & Organizational Facilitation—Kelly Gerling PhD
http://kellygerling.com/seattle-personal-change-services/marriage-couple-family-counseling-therapy/index.shtmlSeattle Marriage Couple & Family Counseling Therapy
Got PAIN in your marriage? Want more LOVE again? EXPERIENCE Kelly’s breakthrough methods—learned directly from Virginia Satir—a family therapy founder
Married couples seek a marriage counselor, a family therapist, or other forms of help because they experience pains and difficulties in their relationships. These pains and difficulties can take many many forms from individuals growing in different directions, to issues and conflicts involving children, to communication problems that prevent problems from being solved and goals from being achieved. Partners WANT good communication, mutual affection, GOOD FEELINGS again—the same feelings that brought them together! Of course.
In my work I have been learned many effective methods for helping couples and families recover their good communication, mutual affection and good feelings again. And I've learned these methods over a long period of training and practice.
I worked with my first family in 1980 and enjoyed many years of association with Ramon Corrales and Larry Ro-Trock—two family therapists with great approaches to helping families.
In addition, my training with families included Carl Whitaker, Peggy Papp, Jay Haley, and I worked very closely with Virginia Satir. She was on my dissertation committee when I pursued my doctorate in clinical psychology. It was through that association that I studied conflict resolution with her. She was a master therapist and key founder of the field of family therapy. You can read more about her on her website at www.avanta.net. The essential goals of family and couple therapy Satir taught me were these two: in a healthy marriage or family, you need to be able to say what you experience, good or bad; and secondly, you need ask for what you want.
While such goals may appear to be simple—and they are—nevertheless, these goals are profound destinations for creating the open communication that allows couples and families to bring about the fulfillment of healthy values.
Like Virginia Satir, I like to start of my session positively by asking "What are your hopes for being here?" With that beginning, problems emerge, goals reveal themselves, and couples make progress towards solving problems and achieving goals.
If you would like to learn more about the process I use with couples and families, please feel free to contact me, and also to schedule your free initial phone consultation of up to an hour, so that you can find out, up close, in person, how I may help you.