Relationship Counseling: Strengthening Your Bonds
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Address impasses in relationships and family dynamics
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Heal from infidelity or loss of trust
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Receive professional support around parenting and caregiving
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Attend our custom communication workshop and develop new skills to successfully explore difficult emotional territory.
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Immerse yourself in our 4-hour Gottman couples intensive for couples in crisis or with limited time to commit to ongoing sessions.
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Attend to intergenerational wounds between adults and adult children
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Navigate divorce or separation with open communication and respect
When To Reach Out For Help
Research shows that relationship health is the single most important predictor of one’s happiness. Inversely, relationship stress has profound potential to disrupt one’s wellness, both emotionally and physically.
When our relationships suffer, so do we. If you are experiencing distress over a challenging relationship and you feel you are lacking the skills and tools to move forward, including a professional is a transformative way to move beyond where you’ve been able to get on your own.
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The therapist can be the missing link, adding perspective and opportunities to change the status quo dynamic, helping you move toward understanding, healing, and ultimately, happiness.
What to Expect from Couples & Relationship Counseling
Attending therapy for marriage, relationship, and family issues offers a safe space to explore and resolve conflicts, improve communication, and strengthen connections.
We help our clients understand underlying patterns, address misunderstandings, and develop healthier ways of relating to one another. Therapy can also support navigating complex transitions, such as divorce or separation, and foster greater empathy and trust.
Couples Counseling
One’s primary life partner is one of the most fundamental relationships in life. When conflicts, trust issues, challenges with mental health, and incompatible stress-management strategies impact our partnership, the distress can be profound.
We recommend that couples seek support sooner rather than later and find counseling to be an incredible way to gain strategies that can be utilized throughout a lifetime to create deeper connection and relationship satisfaction.
Family Counseling
Family dynamics can be complex, and well-established relational dynamics can feel impossible to change. Even with the best of intentions, families can find themselves in discord and hurtful patterns. All it takes is dedication and willingness to step into a new kind of relating, which a family therapist can help you create, to move beyond these old and hurtful patterns.
We help families learn specific strategies that allow each family member to explore new ways of interacting within the family system, leading to a healthier and happier system and healing from old wounds.
Relationship Counseling
We can assist all kinds of relationships heal, whether dyads, trios, friends, siblings, parents and children, or polyamorous relationships.
When communication skills find their limit, tempers flare, and old ruts feel too deep to dig out of on your own, reaching out for professional help is a transformative way to move towards collective healing and improved life satisfaction.
Unique Relationship Services
Communication Workshops
Jen Gessert offers 3-5 session communication workshops for dyads interested in gaining skills to promote new kinds of conversations. Learn about healthy communication guidelines, deep listening skills, how to identify needs vs feelings, hone the art of validation, and how to make successful requests, among other Nonviolent Communication skills. These workshops vary in length and number of sessions based on the goals of the dyad and are customized for your particular needs. (Billed at Jen’s regular session rate)
4-Hour Relationship Intensives
Amanda Kookesh offers 4-hour relationship intensives for couples who are looking for an immersive opportunity to attend to an ailing connection. This is a great option for couples in crisis, those who can’t commit to ongoing sessions, highly motivated couples who want to experience results quickly, and those who live outside of Anchorage who are willing to travel for a therapeutic experience. This is a highly effective way to receive the expert perspective of a professional who will both encourage you to reach new territory within the session and leave you with recommendations for next steps. (Billed at $920.)
Modalities We Use To Help You Strengthen Your Relationships
An evidence-based, structured approach that provides couples with specific, practical skills and strategies for building a stronger, more resilient relationship that can endure challenges and foster lasting intimacy and affection.
Gottman Method
Offers significant benefits for improving relationships, resolving conflicts, and increasing emotional intelligence in various settings, from personal to professional. The process helps individuals focus on clarifying needs, feelings and validating one another with empathy before moving towards making requests for change.
Nonviolent Communication (NVC)
Support We Offer
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Couples Counseling
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Family Counseling
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Divorce and Separation
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Parenting Support
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​Premarital Counseling
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Infidelity
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Loneliness & Isolation
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Communication Skills
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Conflict Resolution
Are You Ready to Start Couples, Family
or Relationship Counseling in Anchorage
& Across Alaska & Washington?
Get in touch today to schedule a free 15-minute consultation call. We are happy to assess your needs and help you choose which of our therapists would be the best fit for you and answer any lingering questions you may have. There are no silly questions; we are happy to demystify the counseling process, answer billing questions, address confidentiality concerns or discuss any other matters on your mind.