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Charlene
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Good secular pre-marital counseling

Charlene, on January 29, 2023 at 9:58 AM Posted in Family and Relationships 0 1

Does anyone know any good secular pre-marital counselors? We are going to ask our psychiatrists (see mine this week) if they know of any couples therapist that does it, but I would like some recommendations (we live in the west part of Michigan near Grand Rapids) that would be good. It can also be online, we are open to that too. I just think it would be nice to work on our communication skills more and stuff. One thing he always says is that I tend to try to fix his problems and get really stressed and upset if they are beyond my control and I can't fix them and I need to work on listening more and stop stressing myself out.

We also are looking for good marriage books that we can read together too so if you have any recommendations that would be great. My mom gave me The Rules for Marriage already (she is a big fan of The Rules in general), but some of the advice in there is... questionable haha.

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Latest activity by Thomas, on January 29, 2023 at 12:05 PM
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    The Gottman Institute is a very well respected, research-based couples counseling training ground. Gottman has a book called “The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work” that also has exercises for the couple to do. In addition to asking your psychiatrist, I would probably do a search on PsychologyToday/your insurance/Google for couples therapists (make sure they actually have experience specializing in couples work because it is very different from individual therapy). Any qualified couples therapist will be able to help you strengthen your communication skills, even if they don’t formally advertise pre-marital counseling, as that’s something more typical of the church (pastoral counseling is not subject to licensure laws for providing therapy).
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