Marriage Counseling Experts
Having a great relationship is similar to many other valuable things in life…you must be purposeful about cultivating it, taking care of it, and always working to make it better.
Couples with the happiest, most loving, relationship are those who take care of their marriage and seek out professional support to continuously make their relationship great!
At Front Range Counseling, we specialize in helping couples create a more connected, secure, and romantic relationship.
Compassionate & Effective Marriage Counseling
Our marriage counseling approach is caring, compassionate and effective. We use evidence-based strategies that have been proven by research to help marriage relationships develop and create a stronger bond. Whether we’re working with you in Marriage Counseling or Couples Therapy to heal from betrayal, Relationship guidance to make your good marriage so much better, or Premarital Counseling to prepare your relationship for a long term marriage. Our goal is the same, to help you have a loving, satisfying, happy, romantic and healthy relationship.
Couples often come to us with questions like:
- “Do I even want to work on this relationship after what has happened?!”
- “We keep having the same argument over and over again!”
- “I don’t feel like my partner gets me.”
- “I don’t feel connected any more with my partner…I feel like we are roommates.”
- “I love my partner but I am no longer in love.“
- “I just found out that my partner has been having an affair. What now?”
Is It Too Late for Us?
Some of you who are considering couples counseling are wondering if it’s too late for therapy. You have experienced too much pain, betrayal or ‘second chances’ and feel there is no hope for getting back ‘what you once had’. We encourage you to consider couples counseling anyway. Often, when couples reach this point where they feel they have nothing left to lose, they are more open and honest with themselves and their partner. This creates a powerful opportunity for true beliefs, feelings and experiences of each partner to emerge. This honesty is what is needed to allow the process of healing to begin. The Gottman Marriage Institute research shows its never to late to work on your marriage!
Relationship Counseling That Helps:
- Learning more effective ways to communicate so that you feel seen and heard.
- Creating safety so you can get a handle on life when it feels out of control.
- Learning how to grow greater intimacy and passion in your relationship.
- Disrupting the old patterns of communication so that something new can emerge.
- Leveling up your love connection.
- Learn To Have Fun & Enjoy One Another Again
When Should You Seek Marriage Counseling?
- Your relationship is experiencing distress or conflict
- When there is a lack affection, passion, romance and/or good sex
- When there is infidelity and the need for affair recovery
- To deal with the effects of infertility on their marriage
- When you’ve reached a point of considering divorce or separation
- Preparing for marriage with premarital counseling
Seize The Moment
Marriage counseling helps couples get to know one another more deeper, effectively solve problems, improve communicate and restore your trust in each other. We believe that marriages that have been through the war together and survive, often come out with a stronger bond, deeper connection than couples who never seem to face relationship challenges.
In other words, you and your partner have the opportunity to be honest with each other in a safe environment and to improve your relationship. Pain motivates all of us to make changes more than pleasure. Your couples counselor will encourage you seize this moment and make the investment to improve your relationship. It might be impossible to believe it in the moment but you may look back on this difficult time as the best thing that ever happened in your marriage. So please seize this moment… and start your journey to change your marriage for the better.
Ready To Get Started with Marriage Counseling?
We welcome you to give us a call to schedule a consultation with an expert, caring marriage counselor from Front Range Counseling.
Relationship Articles By Our Marriage Counselors
Ten Positive Marital Changes
Whether you want to keep your marriage healthy or you have been feeling down and depressed about your relationship, change some of your daily habits and you’ll be more likely to experience marital bliss. Here are ten positive marriage changes that will improve your relationship for the long term.
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Identifying Negative Relationship Cycles
When Kevin Leapley works with couples, he starts off by helping both partners understand the damaging dance that they get into, what moves each into their part of the negative dance, and how each partner’s moves trigger to escalate the cycle further.
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Partners Emotional Responsiveness
Responsiveness requires partners to tune into the other partner’s emotions and showing how his/her emotions affect or impact. When one partner experiences fear or doubt, the other partner shows how an immediate response of comfort and care for what the partner needs in that moment.
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Remember Why You Fell In Love
Does it seem like your anger is uncontrollable? Has your angry behaviors caused problems in your relationship? Are you noticing that your children stay distance in fear of you? Has your anger interfered in your job or have you been warned about controlling your anger? Have you been arrested for domestic violence? We can help!
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Relationship Counseling Modalities
Our Couples Counselors have been trained in several different relationship counseling modalities. The three approaches that our marriage counselors utilize are all research based models found to be extremely effective in helping couples renew their love and attachment to each other and heal from emotional injuries.
Unfortunately, most of us were never taught or modeled how to maintain a marriage, communicate effectively or work through relationship differences peacefully. Parents can actually teach and model harmful or destructive ways of dealing with conflict.
Fortunately, with the help of a highly trained marriage counselor dedicated to strengthening your relationship, you can restore and renew your marriage, protect your relationship and enjoy greater friendship and romance.
All relationships go through phases during it’s life cycle, and it’s common and “only human” to experience a few rough patches. The strength of a relationship is reflected in how each person deals with the rough patches and moves through them. It is possible to change the dynamics of any relationship if you’re willing to work on it. Please call Front Range Counseling to schedule an appointment for marriage counseling, relationship therapy, family counseling or adolescent therapy.
Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy (EFT):
Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) for couples is based on Dr. Susan Johnson’s research and clinical work with couples. EFT offers a way for couples to learn how to communicate in ways that bring partners closer together by helping them understand their negative patterns of conflict. The main goal of Emotionally focused therapy is to create a secure bond between partners and to reorganize and expand critical emotional responses. It helps to improve communication between partners, which is more beneficial to the relationship. EFT is a practical therapy that has been used successfully in relationships and marriages for many years, due to the fact that it creates a spirit of respect and harmony.
Our EFT counselor will help you and your partner slow down the conversation so that you each can actually hear what the other partner is saying. EFT addresses the key problem identified in John Gottman’s research which is how partners turn away from each other rather than towards each other. It is also imperative that no one feels like the “bad guy” or on the hot seat. If one partner gets turned off to couples’ therapy, he or she will not return. EFT provides a way to help both partners feel safe to open up and talk about some difficult topics.
In EFT relationship therapy, the goal is to heal emotional injuries that may have been created within the relationship. Couples learn to engage, reach, and respond to each other in a new corrective emotional experience. A marriage that feels safe and secure in knowing their partner “has their back” and will be their emotionally when needed changes the negative dance to a loving and trusting connection.
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The Gottman Method for Couples Therapy:
This relationship counseling method was developed by John and Julie Gottman. They have completed over 40 years of clinical study and practice researching marriages in their marriage research institute. Their research with distressed couples determined what aspects tend to break up a relationships, but more importantly what will make the relationship healthy and and more satisfying. In the Gottman couples method, partners learn how to effectively resolve conflict and turn towards each other for deeper connection and intimacy.
Key aspects of Gottman’s research found that couples need to develop more respect and affection for each other, work to accept each other’s differences rather than constantly trying to change their partner. In the research, couples showing each other kindness and generosity strongly predicts a long lasting relationship.
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Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Couples
Romantic relationships are a huge challenge for many of us, as evidenced by our high divorce rates. But what is it that causes so much pain and discord in many relationships? Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Couples identifies ten most common relationship schemas—which helps married partners walk through their pain and learn solutions that reflect the needs and values of each partner.
Rather than working to stop relationship triggers or to reduce pain, the couple will learn hot observe and name what triggers their rigid coping patterns when activated. And by learning new skills when they are triggered, couples will be able to replace avoidant and coping behaviors with values-based action for the betterment of the relationship.