{"id":10,"date":"2008-07-09T23:49:37","date_gmt":"2008-07-10T06:49:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/creativesciencelabs.com\/psychodcms\/?page_id=15"},"modified":"2014-01-20T13:50:41","modified_gmt":"2014-01-20T20:50:41","slug":"couples-and-marital-counseling","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/psychod.com\/?page_id=10","title":{"rendered":"Marital and Couples Counseling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When counseling a couple, the therapist is trained to employ various schools\u00a0of social and psychological perspective. My training included: gestalt\u00a0family therapy, systems therapy, and interpersonal therapy. I worked in\u00a0professional settings where these models of couples counseling were taught,\u00a0practiced, and supervised. A short bibliography of some of the experts in\u00a0these models is available at the link to the right.<\/p>\n<p>Many married and unmarried couples that have worked with me have referred\u00a0their friends and relatives. I observed that if we three can work together\u00a0well the couple could demonstrate, in the conduct of their daily lives, that\u00a0they were gaining specific skills that had a direct impact on the way they\u00a0conducted themselves when they were together.<\/p>\n<p>Examples of this included demonstrating increasing self- and\u00a0other-awareness, disrupting their own problem-causing behaviors repeatedly,\u00a0and practicing a way of speaking to their partner that was less provocative\u00a0and more effective in problem solving, negotiating, compromising, and\u00a0listening. An important example too was regarding emotional self-regulation,\u00a0doing this effectively and in ways that are safe and healthy. An overview of\u00a0the type of work I do with couples is available at the right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When counseling a couple, the therapist is trained to employ various schools\u00a0of social and psychological perspective. My training included: gestalt\u00a0family therapy, systems therapy, and interpersonal therapy. I worked in\u00a0professional settings where these models of couples counseling were taught,\u00a0practiced, and supervised. A short bibliography of some of the experts in\u00a0these models is available at the link [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88890,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":17,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-10","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychod.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychod.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychod.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychod.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/88890"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychod.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/psychod.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":734,"href":"https:\/\/psychod.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10\/revisions\/734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychod.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}