FIND EACH OTHER AGAIN
COUPLES COUNSELING
Are you feeling alone in your marriage? Have you wondered if you are a priority to your partner? Do you feel you can't share with your spouse? Counselors at Johns Creek and Alpharetta Counseling are trained to help you find connection again, to learn to communicate, to understand your partner, and in turn feel understood.
WHAT TO EXPECT: Couples Therapy includes coming together with a neutral party to discuss how to improve your relationship. The counselors at JCAC see your relationship as their client rather than each individual. We are not going to take sides, or tell one or the other how to change. Our role is to help you define your goals and dreams for your marriage, understand barriers, and collaboratively work through them to make connecting to each other easy again. Below you will see multiple styles of couple's therapy that we offer at Johns Creek and Alpharetta Counseling. Learn a little about each to see which one will fit you best.
Questions? Not sure how to get started? Call us at 404-834-2363, or schedule a time to for us to call you. We can determine who is the right fit for you, help give you resources, and schedule your first counseling session. We look forward to speaking with you!
EMOTIONALLY FOCUSED COUPLES THERAPY
FINDING CONNECTION AND INTIMACY AGAIN
EFT helps couples by assisting them to be open, attuned, and responsive to each other allowing them to reestablish their emotional connection. An essential element in healthy marriages is emotional responsiveness: trust in your ability to have emotional communication during high stress. Click on the video here to learn more from the creator of EFT, Sue Johnson.
Knowing that you can turn towards each other when it really matters. Having this is deeper than “I know they love me.” It is “I know in my bones they are there for me, they are my friend, they have my back, I know we are a team.” Couples Therapy helps couples learn how they are getting stuck (feeling alone or not important when you need your partner the most), assist to communicate the genuine need, and help the other partner hear it in a non-threatening way. Counselors at Johns Creek and Alpharetta Counseling are trained to provide EFT. We can help you overcome barriers to communication, connection, and intimacy. We can help it be simple again. That hole in your heart can feel full again.
Marriage Master Class
Work on your relationship together
EStart the conversation by watching this video series together. This can serve as a great way to prepare for couples counseling with JCAC or to work on your relationship before trying Couples Therapy. This video series is based in the EFT Couples Therapy Model, and has the same feel as the first four sessions of EFT Therapy.
Gottman Method Couple’s Therapy can help by assessing your strengths and areas of growth. This approach is a very insight oriented that can help you reach for connection and your partner understand your need, build fondness and admiration for each other, create shared goals, help to turn toward each other during stress, see each other in a positive perceptive (assume the best of each other rather than the worst), and building the marital friendship. Our counselors are trained to offer Gottman Method Couple’s Therapy and to help you during an argument, shape the conversation to constructive rather than destructive, and to foster open communication.
You both will take an assessment and discuss your results with your therapist. You will then discover your strengths as a couple and areas of growth. From there, you will use an interactive workbook to learn from each other. The workbook covers: communication, conflict resolution, partner style and habits, financial management, leisure activities, sexual expectations, family and friends, relationship roles, and spiritual beliefs. Prepare Enrich is great for those that are dating, engaged, married, and even blending families.
