crisis resolution for couples
practical coaching to get. things. done.
when **it hits the fan
It’s hard enough to maintain balance in family life. Professional goals, home ownership, and obligations to extended family fill up so much time, there isn’t much room for hobbies or rest. And now, your family has experienced a destabilizing circumstance or event. Maybe there’s been an affair, a job loss, a move, or a child has presented you with a sudden behavioral issue. Now what?
guidance helps
There are plenty of strategies out there to maintain emotional intactness, work on relationships, and parent well. What you need is someone to outline those strategies for you in an easy-to-use way, and to hold you accountable for implementing them.
how we work
In our first 50-minute session, we’ll dive right in to the here and now. Historical information will come up as it needs to; our goal will be to move forward into a plan of action that can help you effect real change and feel better soon.
By the end of our first session, you’ll have some new strategies to try, and some homework. It usually takes 3 to 5 sessions to get you back on your feet and pointed in the right direction, and we can schedule those at whatever interval is best for you to have enough time to practice new approaches, but not so much time that you lose the thread of what you are moving towards.
In ongoing sessions, we maintain accountability for new behaviors, tweak strategies for better results, and remain solution-oriented. After the heat of the crisis has passed, you can come in for maintenance sessions once a month or every six weeks; or when you need to debrief an emerging concern. We’re available when you need to be reminded of the way forward on the path you’ve chosen.
solution-focused crisis coaching
You don’t need to be in therapy forever to figure stuff out. We’ll work together in three to five one-hour sessions to debrief the problem at hand, talk about ways to work on the problem, and summarize how that work has gone and plan for next steps.
You may be able to carry out the next steps on your own, or you may want periodic check-ins for tune-ups. In either case, we’ll have already established a relationship and we’ll know the dynamics of your relationship life. So, if/when it hits the fan again, months or years down the road, we can pick up where we left off to set you back on course.
“Relationship is an art. The dream that two people create is more difficult to master than one.”