In the fourth session the three of us will meet together again to go over the assessment results and to discuss our goals. In the next two sessions I will meet with each spouse individually to hear about your faith journey, your family of origin, previous relationships and all about your individual lives. This will enable me to see some of the interpersonal dynamics going on in your marriage.įinally, I will ask you to consider taking the Gottman Check-Up, an online relationship assessment, to help pinpoint the strengths and weaknesses in your marriage so we can concentrate on the areas of your marriage that most need change. Next, I will ask you to discuss a problem for 10 minutes while I am a fly on the wall. This is often the high point of the session as couples recall some of their most cherished memories. I will go on to ask you to tell me about how you met and what your first impressions of each other were. I will then ask you to describe what is happening in your marriage, why you are seeking therapy, and how you view your problems. I will begin each session in prayer for couples who feel comfortable praying. The first marriage counseling session is 90 minutes. Because marriage problems can be so exhausting and discouraging, I do my best to be encouraging and I infuse the abundant hope of the gospel in every session. When I meet with a couple for marriage counseling, I do my best to provide a loving, grace-filled, non-judgmental environment where you and your spouse will feel safe enough to share the fine china of your lives. You May Still Have Questions About Christian Marriage Counseling What are Marriage therapy sessions with you like? God is able to use the same resurrection power that raised Jesus to raise your marriage from the dead and make it more glorious than ever before. The truth is that with Gospel-centered marriage counseling your dead marriage can be restored.
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Once this solid foundation is in place, I will show you how to rebuild a stronger, more satisfying, and God honoring marriage.īut you may feel that there is no hope for your marriage and the hurt is too deep to restore the relationship and love you once had. We will then rebuild your heart’s foundation so that it is based on God’s truth, design, and purpose. I will also help you locate areas of your life that do not align with Scripture and show you new ways to trust and obey God. In counseling, I will help you identify the idols which have competed with God for your heart, and we will work together to remove them. When you love God and worship Him exclusively, you will find it easier to love your spouse. It is out of the heart that you worship, and what you worship profoundly shapes your interactions with your spouse. This new foundation begins in the heart, the seat of your deepest trusts and loves and from which your thoughts, words, actions and emotions flow. For marriages to be what God designed them to be, the rebuilding, restoring, and reconciling must be constructed on a new foundation. Though not bad, this approach is comparable to repairing parts of an old car only to find out that the frame has rusted out. I don’t just apply a solution-based approach, in which a problem is identified, and new skills are taught. In counseling I help couples learn biblically sound ways to communicate, resolve conflict, restore trust, forgive and restore intimacy. I believe that if rightly interpreted and correctly applied, Scripture offers God’s solution for how to overcome marital difficulties.
Rather, I apply Scripture in a sensitive, personal, wise and comprehensive way. But I do not give you a few Bible verses and say you’re good to go. It is my view that Scripture is sufficient to diagnose and treat marriage problems. I use a biblical counseling approach to marriage counseling.
Gospel-Centered Couples Therapy Can Restore Your Marriage If you have caught God’s vision for marriage and this is the kind of marriage you aspire to, I can help you cultivate a rich, fulfilling, Gospel-centered marriage that will stand the test of time. God’s intension for marriage is not just to make us happy and fulfilled but to make us holy and beautiful. It is in this loving, committed union that God progressively molds couples into the likeness of Jesus. Marriages are intended to be living testimonies to Jesus’ inseparable union with believers. Marriage is an earthly depiction of the relationship between Jesus and His church, the bride of Christ. God intended marriage to be a permanent, intimate relationship in which two people are irrevocably joined together as one. Many couples give up because they have never grasped that God’s plan for marriage is much bigger than their own personal fulfillment.
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