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If you or your spouse are considering divorce but are not completely sure that’s the best path, you are in a tough spot. And Discernment Counseling is designed for you. It’s a chance to slowdown, take a breath, and look at your options for your marriage.
Discernment Counseling is a new way of helping couples where one person is “leaning out” of the relationship—and not sure that regular marriage counseling would help--and the other is "leaning in”—that is, interested in rebuilding the marriage.
The counselor will help you decide whether to try to restore your marriage to health, move toward divorce, or take a time out and decide later.
The goal is for you to gain clarity and confidence about a direction, based on a deeper understanding of your relationship and its possibilities for the future.
The goal is not to solve your marital problems but to see if they are solvable. You will each be treated with compassion and respect no matter how you are feeling about your marriage at the moment. No bad guys and good guys.
You will come in as a couple but the most important work occurs in the one-to-one conversations with the counselor. Why? Because you are starting out in different places.
The counselor respects your reasons for divorce while trying to open up the possibility of restoring the marriage to health.
The counselor emphasizes the importance of each of you seeing your own contributions to the problems and the possible solutions. This will be useful in future relationships even if this one ends.
Number of Sessions: A maximum of 5 counseling sessions. The first session is usually 2 hours and the subsequent are 1.5 or 2 hours.
Discernment Counseling is not suited for these situations:
When one spouse has already made a final decision to divorce
When one spouse is coercing the other to participate
When there is danger of domestic violence
This service is for both individuals motivated to work on their marriage. If one or both of you is not sure about the marriage and whether couples therapy can help, click here.
On the brink of divorce? This is not the best service for you. Click here to learn how I can help you and your marriage.
Ambivalent because you aren’t sure you want to be married? No problem. Click here to learn about a service designed specifically for you.
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Do you mention the fees for DC sessions (first session is 2 hours, subsequent sessions are 90 minutes). We realize not every therapist can manage this but ensure you mention DC pricing.
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We hold no opinion on this subject but some therapists do insurance for couples therapy and not Discernment Counseling. Regardless, it’ll be important to articulate this on your website to potential DC clients. You can again stress the short term nature of this service.Description text goes here
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