Relationship and Marriage Counseling therapists in Fountain Valley, California CA
Relationship and Marriage Counseling
Adrienne Clements
Counselor/Therapist, MA, LMFT
Do you feel distant and disconnected from your spouse or partner, sometimes wondering if you really know each other anymore? Are the two of you struggling to get along, resolve conflicts and communicate in a healthy, productive and positive way? Do you wonder if you even still like each other? Perhaps you aren’t fighting, but you aren’t really spending any meaningful time together either, and it increasingly feels like the love, passion and intimacy that was once the glue holding you together as a team has faded away. Maybe things between you are tense, and although you try to share your experiences or express your deepest thoughts and feelings, you worry that you partner doesn’t understand you or doesn’t care enough to really listen. Or, perhaps you find yourselves arguing about everything, from dirty dishes to finances to in-laws and parenting. Do you feel as though you’re just going through the motions or walking on eggshells when you’re around each other? Do you long to be able to rebuild the love and connection you once had that helped you both feel safe, understood and valued in the relationship? It is possible to restore happiness and satisfaction to your relationship. I know that you, your partner and your relationship are unique. I am trained in several couples approaches, and I am a Level 3 Gottman Method trained therapist.
The Gottman Method is a foundational piece of my approach, and I will adapt proven strategies tailored to fit your unique relationship as well as your individual personalities, needs and therapy goals. Generally, we begin by helping you explore your relationship on three levels:
Friendship, affection and connection
How you deal with conflict
Shared life goals and vision
In strengths-based sessions, rather than focusing on surface-level relationship or marriage problems, I will help you identify and resolve issues at their roots so that you can work toward deep, lasting healing. I will also help to cast light on your relationship strengths, collaborating with you to create strategies that bring them more fully into action.
11 Years Experience
Relationship and Marriage Counseling
Tanya Desloover
Marriage and Family Therapist, LMFT, CADCII
My background of 20 years spent as therapist and Clinical Director of a southern CA program, and in private practice, treating clients and families with substance use disorders, has informed my practice to help couples resolve their communication issues and differences. It takes courage to face your fears, and I offer a nonjudgmental, secure holding place to heal. We will work together to support your becoming empowered to courageously face your challenges.
19 Years Experience
Relationship and Marriage Counseling
Ms. Carol Jean Timmons
Marriage and Family Therapist, LMFT
The goal of Couple Counseling is for a third party to help the couple see what they cannot see in their interactions, hear from each other what they have not been able to hear, have empathy for feelings of which they were unaware, forgive what they were too angry to forgive, and appreciate what they have forgotten to be grateful for in their relationship. I believe that if two people want their relationship to work, it definitely can! If even one does not, it will not work.
32 Years Experience
Relationship and Marriage Counseling
Scheyden Herold
Marriage and Family Therapist, LMFT #137593, MS
I love to work with couples. I have always had a strong desire to work with them before I began practicing as a clinician. I love to see people happy and in love, and if I can assist in that process to help them rediscover each other, then that makes me happy. I am trained in Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), which is considered to be the best couples therapy modality out there according to the research. I utilize this modality the most in my work with couples, while also borrowing elements from Gottman's Method and the Prepare/Enrich modality. My goal is to give you the most comprehensive and effective treatment possible as a couple.
5 Years Experience
Relationship and Marriage Counseling
John Fry
Psychologist, Ph.D.
I use the approach used by John Gottman which has revolutionized marriage counseling in terms of positive results. He and his colleagues have followed over 3000 couples for well over 30 years and have discovered many helpful keys to strengthening a marriage.
47 Years Experience
Relationship and Marriage Counseling
Jeanette Abney
Marriage and Family Therapist, LMFT, SAP
I have over 20 years of experience with assisting individuals develop healthy relationships skills, improve communication skills, and with providing couples and marriage counseling as well as pre-marital counseling.
25 Years Experience
Relationship and Marriage Counseling
Micha Noble, MA
Pre-Licensed Professional, AMFT
With couples, we emphasize good communication skills as part of the foundation of any relationship and utilize our training and experience to help couples break negative cycles and see themselves as being on the same team, rather than as adversaries as they work through specific issues that are a challenge to having a healthy and fulfilling relationship.
3 Years Experience
Relationship and Marriage Counseling
Provia Psychology
Counselor/Therapist, LMFT, LCSW, AMFT, APCC
With couples, we emphasize good communication skills as part of the foundation of any relationship and utilize our training and experience to help couples break negative cycles and see themselves as being on the same team, rather than as adversaries as they work through specific issues that are a challenge to having a healthy and fulfilling relationship.
7 Years Experience
Relationship and Marriage Counseling
Nsight Psychology & Addiction
Therapist, CA State Licensed, LMFT, LCSW, MD, PsyD
At Nsight Psychology & Addiction, our team of licensed therapists will work with you to resolve the problems that exacerbate addiction. Underlying issues such as trauma, depression, anxiety, and eating disorders often continue to be a stumbling block until they are effectively resolved.
10 Years Experience
Relationship and Marriage Counseling
Emma Esper
Marriage and Family Therapist, LMFT, LPCC
I enjoy working with couples and tend to use the Gottman Method to inform my work. This includes working on communicating anger in a constructive manner, increasing friendship and intimacy, removing barriers that create feelings of "stuckness" in the relationship, and increasing empathy and understanding between partners. I have also found attachment work to be beneficial in my work with couples.
5 Years Experience