Premarital, Marriage, Couples and Family Counseling at Dayspring
Are you striving for the ideal marriage and family life? Dayspring Center for Christian Counseling is dedicated to family-focused counseling, aiming to create joyful households. We offer comprehensive support throughout the married life journey. Premarital counseling typically involves six sessions to prepare couples for their new life together. Marriage counseling sessions may vary in length, depending on the couple’s progress before seeking counseling. Family counseling also involves around six sessions, with individual counseling sessions for family members if needed.
Counselors at Dayspring assist you in resolving pressing issues and preventing new conflicts from arising. The counseling process is tailored to meet the unique needs of each couple or family. Contrary to popular belief, a marriage is not solely about “me and you.” Various individuals and activities constantly influence our lives. Whether you’re preparing for marriage or already married, our Dayspring counselors can help you enhance your marriage and family life.
The dynamics of the household are crucial for a solid marriage and family life. Setting boundaries is a vital starting point. Everyone, from in-laws and uncles to sweet cousins, may offer unwanted advice. This could include parenting tips or financial advice, even if the person may have their own financial struggles.
These unsolicited pieces of advice can negatively impact relationships and behavior, ultimately affecting your marriage and family.
Our counselor will help you improve communication skills, enabling you to set boundaries while setting achievable goals. Dayspring counselor will teach you effective conflict resolution techniques, with the ultimate goal of fostering family unity. By strengthening your closeness, you’ll strengthen your marriage and family.
To create unity in the household, everyone involved must be willing to change. Often, one spouse believes the other needs to change, and it’s the counselor’s job to force them to comply. However, this approach is not effective. If your goal is lasting harmony in the home, be prepared to make changes yourself.
Your counselor is trained to be an “active listener,” so they can truly understand everyone’s perspective. Effective communication between family members requires learning how to listen actively. It can be challenging for some people to resist jumping in and making accusations. The other end of communication involves learning how to express your thoughts and feelings without hurting others or embarrassing yourself.
Arguments don’t build self-esteem; they actually damage it for everyone involved. This is where your counselor will utilize their training and therapeutic techniques to bring all participants to a similar level. We aim for each party to have equal importance while fulfilling their individual roles in the family.
Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) emphasizes strengthening the attachment and bond between partners. Therapists help couples identify and change patterns that lead to feelings of disconnection.
Conflicts are inevitable, but they can be resolved. Your counselor will identify small issues that could escalate into major differences and teach you how to resolve them. Problems that have already escalated will also be addressed by learning problem-solving techniques that resolve issues. Our counselors prefer the Gottman method (Gottman & Gottman, 2017) because it addresses areas of conflict and equips individuals with problem-solving skills to enhance friendship and intimacy.
Unhealthy or destructive behaviors are areas your counselor will focus on in your family members. They will then employ therapeutic techniques to assist each individual in changing their behaviors. Your Dayspring counselor may choose to use Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to help individuals or couples. CBT involves identifying and altering thought patterns that cause conflict, enabling resolution.
We began by discussing unity. Until everyone learns to forgive each other, true unity cannot be achieved. Fortunately, forgiveness is a learned skill that your counselor can teach you.
You may be wondering what to expect from Dayspring Center for Christian Counseling. Established in February 2002, we are a community mental health provider that started as a nonprofit group of local counselors. Our mission remains unchanged.
Unlike some popular online counseling companies that adopt an “industrialized” approach, Dayspring remains a local organization prioritizing the well-being of our clients over profit. While our reach has expanded from Marshall County to throughout Alabama, we continue to provide affordable, personalized counseling services that have a hometown feel.
