Relationship Counseling

Relationship Counseling and Passive Aggressive Behavior After a long period of frustration, and confusion, you realized that the pain in your marriage is produced by passive-aggressive behaviors. That discovery alone cleaned your brain fog and gave you fast relief! You know what’s going on: It is not you; it is the relationship! Armed with this new insight, the next logical step is to get some help and search for a counselor. This decision brings a new wall of frustration with several points of solid resistance awaiting you: 1.- Your husband refuses to share the visit with a relationship ...

Would you like to build a stronger relationship? This relationship book for couples will help you get to know each other on a new level, with activities and games centered around having carefree fun. COUPLES THERAPY WORKBOOK is a series of guided questions and exercises to promote meaningful couple conversations and build ongoing, connected communication. It is presented weekly over the course of 7 weeks. However, it may be adjusted to fit any timeline and developed to be utilized by couples and clinicians working with couples in a marriage counseling setting. Evidence-Based Marriage ...

In We Do, Tatkin provides a groundbreaking guide for couples. You'll figure out whether you and your partner are right for each other in the long term, and if so, give your relationship a strong foundation so you can enjoy a secure and lasting love.

Nina Spadaro, Ed.D., Tiffany Rush-Wilson, Ph.D., and Rives Thornton, M.S. bring counseling skills to life in this multi-media e-book. The inclusion of innovative video demonstrations, acted out by the authors, provides an invaluable supplement to the engaging, highly readable text and is a bonus for students who learn best by observing. This seamless integration makes the book a user-friendly tool for both the beginning counseling student and the experienced professional alike. The authors outline microskills - verbal and nonverbal techniques that are counseling building blocks. They also ...

Now in its third edition, It's My Life Now is a guide for survivors who have left an abusive relationship. It addresses - in clear, non-threatening language - various issues associated with abuse and violence, including post-relationship emotions, psychological impact, dealing with children, personal safety, legal problems, and financial security. Each chapter dismantles common myths about being in and leaving an abusive relationship and contains activities for self-exploration that survivors can complete as they navigate a new life free from abuse.

Are you and your partner ready to take the plunge into a lifetime of love, joy, and unwavering commitment? Introducing "Couple's Workshop: DIY Pre-Marital Counseling & Strategies for a Successful Marriage. Setting the Stage for a Lifetime of Love," the ultimate guide to crafting a marriage that not only survives but thrives! Discover the secrets to a harmonious, fulfilling relationship that stands the test of time. This transformative book is your comprehensive roadmap to understanding each other deeply, building a strong foundation, and navigating the beautiful yet complex journey of ...

Christian Relationship Counseling Bible Study Guides - TWO BOOK SET BOOK ONE: Divorce – Remarriage and the Innocent Spouse: Counseling for Betrayed Believers What does the Bible really say about divorce and remarriage? Are you unclear how the Bible's directives about divorce and remarriage apply to contemporary conflicts? You might be looking for solid biblical counsel for family, friends, or small group. Maybe even for yourself. With its high view of the authority of Scripture and God's mystical, one-flesh union called marriage, this in-depth study respectfully examines hot-button topics...

A five-step guide for building better connections with family, friends, and lovers, The Relationship Cure offers a simple but profound program that will fundamentally transform the quality of all the relationships in your life.

The Ethics of Caring is a unique and widely recommended text that complements standard ethics texts by helping the student or professional find right relationship with a client. Written for practicing therapy and medical professionals, students, teachers, supervisors, and mentors, The Ethics of Caring model first promotes self-compassion, then gently guides self-reflection about unconscious countertransference that often occurs in the main areas of human life. The book illuminates many extraordinary types of human experiences to help professionals become aware in case clients bring these ...

In Love Is a Choice, best-selling doctors Robert Hemfelt, Frank Minirth, and Paul Meier walk you through their 10 proven stages to recovery from codependency that results from external circumstances. Humans are susceptible to codependency because of our sinful tendency to use defense mechanisms to fool ourselves. In codependent relationships, deceitful games are played, and important Christian principles are often taken out of context and abused.

Pete and Geri Scazzero developed The Emotionally Healthy (EH) Relationships Course over a 21-year period to directly address core biblical principles to guide you and others into an experience of discipleship that will deeply change your life. In the EH Relationships Course, everyone will learn eight practical relationship skills to develop mature, loving relationships with others.

We all spend a lot of energy trying to get people to listen to us, and despite our best efforts, we often fail. But what if the secret to influencing others was to demonstrate acceptance? Enter validation—communication where one accepts and sees the validity in another person’s experience. Research on validation shows that it has profound effects, from improving relationships and de-escalating conflicts to increasing one’s influence and self-compassion.

Welcome to the relationship revolution! Making Marriage Simple is the accessible, essential road map to building a strong marriage in the modern world. Best-selling authors Harville Hendrix and Helen LaKelly Hunt distill into 10 essential truths what they've learned about how to create a successful and satisfying relationship - both from their decades of "R&D" in the marriage lab of their workshops, and from their own relationship journey.

This popular, science-based guide offers powerful solutions for couples frustrated by continual attempts to make each other change. True acceptance may seem difficult to accomplish, but the clear-cut steps and thought-provoking exercises in this audiobook can make it a reality. You'll learn why you keep having the same fights again and again; how to keep small incompatibilities from causing big problems; what communication strategies really work to resolve conflicts; and how to problem-solve and make positive changes - together.

Leslie Vernick, counselor and social worker, has witnessed the devastating effects of emotional abuse. Many, including many in the church, have not addressed this form of destruction in families and relationships because it is difficult to talk about. With godly guidance and practical experience, Vernick offers an empathetic approach to recognizing an emotionally destructive relationship and addresses the symptoms and the damage with biblical tools.

"Wish I had read this earlier in marriage!" -J.G. Smid Apart from the decision to follow Jesus, there is no greater decision a person makes than the choice to marry someone. For some people, marriage is a joyful experience - filled with delight. For others, married life is a daily struggle - filled with disappointments and disagreements. The Gospel of Jesus Christ is filled with good news for your marriage. As we meditate more and more on the nature of Christ's Gospel and its application to our daily lives, we begin to see that He has called us to apply His Gospel to every area of our lives...

Uncover the Secrets to a Flourishing Relationship! Are You and Your Partner Stuck in a Relational Rut? Do you find yourself repeatedly arguing about the same things—money, intimacy, or whose turn it is to do the dishes? Do you feel like you’re in an endless cycle of misunderstandings, only to make up and repeat it all over again? Enter a New Paradigm with Our 11-Week Workbook Take a deep breath and prepare to be amazed because our Couples Therapy Workbook is designed to transform your relationship from rocky to rock-solid. How? You can combine cutting-edge psychological theories with ...

Developed by Harville Hendrix and Helen LaKelly Hunt in the 1980s, imago relationship therapy helps couples - and everyone in significant relationships - shift from conflict to connection by transforming the quality of their interactions. Joining theory and practice with elegance, and filled with examples, exercises, and dialogues, this is a book no couple's therapist can afford to be without.

Find Your Kindred Heart Love is beautiful and natural. But that doesn't mean it's easy. If you seek a lasting relationship with the one you love, you're going to need more than wishful thinking. Many people don't realize that relationships take work. Nobody is perfect, and no one couple is perfect either. Sometimes, life's daily struggles get in the way. Sometimes, we forget what really matters... Whether seeking relationship help, love advice, or your one true love, we can all stand to improve. Relationships that last are relationships that allow love to flourish. They are relationships ...

Questioning thousands of parents and educators, Dr. Wayne Dyer learned firsthand what people really want for their children. They don't particularly want their kids to go to fancy schools, acquire riches, or live "the good life". They do want them to have personal integrity and high self-esteem, and to grow up with love and peace in their hearts. Children raised the Wayne Dyer way feel useful and needed. They are inner- rather than outer-directed. They live a stress-free life naturally, without resorting to drugs.