It can be a very difficult time for you when your primary relationship(s) are in trouble. You and your partner may have been struggling for years, or something has recently come up that seems impossible to get past. Whatever type band-aid you put on it does not seems to make a difference. When you are at your wits' end, you give us a call. Joyce and/or Bob quickly respond to your call and ask you both to come in for an appointment.

Thirty years of clinical and teaching experience has taught us to see you separately at first in order to get a feel for you and an understanding of your perceptions of the issues at hand. Once we have seen you and your partner alone, we arrange for a meeting with the two of you present. At this meeting we re-visit the issues, and create a plan for resolution and enrichment that works for both of you. There are times we will recommend individual counseling for one or both of you plus marital therapy and, depending on you situation, simply couple counseling. We will recommend certain things to do outside of the therapy hour that are designed to enhance and speed up the resolution process. We are not into helping either of you win. Our orientation is to have resolution.

Once the immediate issues have been resolved and you are able to constructively handle other problems that come up, we will end our sessions with you and ask you to come in for a follow-up visit in the following month.