Premarital Counseling
Premarital counseling and education are intended to help a couple enter marriage better prepared for the changes, challenges, and celebrations of married life.This process provides a couple with an overview of the strengths and weaknesses of their relationship in a sensitive, respectful, and encouraging manner. Premarital counseling topics include:
Pines Office Park
4829 East Beltline Ave. NE
Building 3, Suite 303
Grand Rapids, MI 49525
616.734.9417
- Intimate Relationship Conflicts
- Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
- Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
- Acitivity/Family Imbalance
- Adolescent/Parent Conflicts
- Disengagement/Loss of Family Cohesion
- Family-of-Origin Interference
- Intolerance/Defensiveness
- Physical/Verbal/Psychological Abuse
- Religious/Spiritual Conflicts
- Reuniting Estranged Family Members
- Midlife Transition Problems
- Transition to Parenthood Strains
- Depression Due to Relationship Problems
- Depression Independent of Relationship Problems
- Disillusionment with Relationship
- Religious/Spirituality Differences
- Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD)—Adult
Individual Counseling
Individual Counseling focuses on helping an individual to grow through challenges that are interfering with life satisfaction, work, or relationships. By considering how physical, psychological, social, and spiritual aspects of life are helping or hurting, personal growth can occur through the individual counseling process. Frequent reasons for individual counseling include:
Career Development
Career development counseling is the process of identifying characteristics of personality, interest, and values and associating those characteristics with career development possibilities. Career development services may be helpful to either an individual or to an organization interested in exploring human resource opportunities.
Organizational Consulting
Organizational Consulting involves the diagnosis of corporate functioning from an organizational development perspective by applying the principles of psychology to the problems of business.
Marriage and Family Therapy
Marriage counseling is intended to help a couple build on the strengths of their relationship and to help resolve differences and conflicts—ultimately leading to a sense of mutual forgiveness and hope. Common concerns are: