Month: November 2014

Couples Counseling in San Antonio Can Help Willing Pairs Make It Work


Some experienced therapists prefer angry, boisterous couples over quiet and subdued ones who act like they’d rather be somewhere else. Where there’s energy, there is passion, and where there is passion, there is emotion. Sometimes, for couples undergoing marriage counseling in San Antonio, TX, emotion holds the key to a resolution. For an energetic and loving couple to be reduced to cold, lifeless shells is a tragedy because it is difficult, if not impossible, to revive lifelessness.

It doesn’t take a counselor to point out these signs of life in your relationship. Whether within the sessions at Sherwood Couples Counseling or outside of them, these “signs of life” will manifest themselves if you are both willing to go beyond yourselves to make the relationship right again.
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Need Help with Your Marriage? Find a Counselor

Marriages are works in progress and there is a great potential for conflict within them. In fact, marriage counselors who practice and promote The Gottman Method highlight the fact that every relationship will have conflicts and stress the importance of the 6 Skills of Conflict Management. These six skills are the following and are easy to learn, with a little work: (more…)

Counseling in San Antonio: An Empty Nest is a Time for Rediscovery


When the kids finally leave home to pursue college or start their own family, couples in Texas find themselves in a situation usually referred to as “empty nest” syndrome. While some couples see this as an opportunity to do new and novel activities, others find themselves at odds—and sometimes divorced. Counseling in San Antonio could benefit the couples who are having a challenge in this new stage in their life. Times Herald’s Nicole Hayden writes how living in an empty nest gives couples a chance to spread their wings.

Empty nest syndrome changes the daily lives of couples and single parents. Some parents may divorce because they were only staying together for their children’s sakes, while others may take the opportunity to relight the spark.
http://sherwoodcouplescounseling.com/counseling-san-antonio-empty-nest-time-rediscovery/