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How to Navigate the Holidays With a New Partner
The holiday season, a time of joy and togetherness, can also be a period of unexpected stress. Especially when you're sharing it with a new partner. You're introducing this person to your...
10 Best Date Spots in Palm Beach Gardens
It is no secret that regular date nights are essential to maintaining passion and connection in relationships. Too often couples fall into repetitious routines and lose touch with the spontaneity...
The Importance of Dating: 5 Date Night Ideas in Wellington, FL
The Importance of Dating Psychologist and relationship expert John Gottman’s theory, research, and work with couples emphasize the crucial role dating plays in the maintenance and growth of...
How to Rebuild Trust in a Relationship After It’s Been Broken: Tips From a Couples Therapist in Wellington, FL
Trust is a fundamental and foundational component of any healthy and successful relationship. In order to trust someone, you must be willing to be vulnerable to getting hurt. The payoff is a deep...
5 Ways You Can Improve The Communication In Your Relationship With Couples Therapy
Why Relationships May Have Poor Communication There are several reasons why people may find themselves in relationships with poor communication patterns. Sometimes in couples therapy, we find one or...
When Should We Start Couples Therapy? Advice From a Couples Therapist
There are many different beliefs about the function of marriage counseling. Unfortunately, many of those beliefs are flawed. Too often, couples come to therapy thinking that the therapist sitting...
Benefits of Online Marriage Counseling
Marriage is a union between two people. But it is also a relationship that involves the coming together of two different stories and narratives. Everyone’s background, culture, personality, and...
Six Hours to a Better Relationship: Tips From a Marriage Counselor
As marriage counselors, we keep quoting Dr. Gottman on our social media posts that "small things often" matter the most. While this may get repetitive and boring, it is so very true. Why? Because...
How to Set Boundaries in Step-Families
Blended families are complicated. Learning how to develop and foster healthy boundaries in a blended family is a necessary growth edge. Something that every family will be faced with negotiating....
What To Expect In Marriage Counseling In Wellington, FL
Contacting Us To Schedule A Session Many clients when calling into our office ask us what the marriage counseling process is like. After you speak to our office manager, Becky, who will get your...
Conflict Happens-How To Keep Your Relationship Healthy After Conflict
Conflict Happens- How to Keep Your Relationship Healthy After Conflict By: Crystal Gonzalez, LMHC, The Marriage Couch LLC I get it, we all do it, and we all get to the point where we say things we...
Discernment Therapy
Did you know there is evidence that seeing a marriage therapist is a predictor of divorce? Your probably asking yourself why a marriage therapist would say this! I’d like to share a few facts about...