Coaching services are different than therapy, in that coaching can be offered worldwide rather than just in Colorado and does not focus on diagnosing and treating mental disorders, but on supporting you in creating the life or relationship that you want for yourself. We offer relationship communication coaching, sexuality coaching, premarital coaching, and individual coaching online across the world. In these sessions, we do not act as therapists but as guides to help you get clear on your patterns and blocks and give you the tools and skills you need to have a more fulfilling relationship and lead a happier life.
Relationship Coaching
In relationship communication coaching, we take empirically validated forms of couples therapy (including Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy (EFT) Gottman Method Couples Therapy, and Sex Therapy) and boil them down to concrete tools and solutions to help you learn to communicate in effective and healthy ways. You will learn tools to communicate in ways that bring you closer rather than further apart. Relationship Coaching can help you:
- Learn to communicate in ways that research tells us increase happiness in relationships
- Develop tools to sustain emotional intimacy and closeness
- Gain insight into your deeper relationship needs as well as those of your partner
- Express yourself in a way that helps you get your needs met, and gain an understanding of how to respond to your partner’s needs in more effective ways
- Use conflict and personal differences as opportunities to grow your relationship rather than damage it
- Work through the effects of stressors on the relationship (e.g., life transitions, work or family stress)
- Improve trust in your relationship and heal from breaches of trust (what we call “attachment injuries”)
- Create daily and weekly rituals and routines that will help you sustain a strong bond over time and create shared meaning
- Learn things you never knew about your partner and ways to connect emotionally, even with the business of life
- Grow in your ability to express fondness, admiration, and appreciation toward your partner
- Work through sexual problems to enhance your sexual intimacy
With your new tools, you and your partner can grow in your love for years to come as your relationship gets better and better over time as you become an expert in empirically-validated communication techniques.
Premarital Coaching
Premarital coaching is similar to relationship coaching (as seen above), but we target our approach to help you have a lasting and happy marriage for the rest of your lives starting from before you two even have a ring on your fingers. Research shows that couples who work on their relationship before getting married have much lower divorce rates and enjoy higher marital satisfaction well into their marriages.
Our relationship coaches have advanced training in evidence-based premarital coaching methods, including Prepare/Enrich (to see 40 years of research validation on Prepare/Enrich, click here), which we use alongside other evidence-based methods used in relationship coaching. You will learn how to access and use the strengths of your relationship to create a beautiful marriage and how to have conversations that will enhance your bond for a lifetime of love to come. You will learn more about yourself and your partner and how to communicate in ways that research shows predict life-long marital happiness. Premarital coaching will give you the insight and lived experience you need to have a happy marriage.
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Individual Coaching
Coaching can help you learn and grow as a person to live a happier, more fulfilling life. You will work with a supportive professional to gain more self-awareness about your patterns and what is holding you back, get clear on your goals, and develop tools and solutions to your problems. While therapy involves work that often looks further into origins of problems and can treat mental disorders, coaching is all about discovering and implementing ways to make change in your life and achieve personal growth. Coaching can help individuals reach a wide variety of goals, including (but not limited to!):
- Examining what is keeping you stuck from making the changes you’d like to make in your life, setting goals, and learning tools for reaching them
- Understanding your values and how to live a values-based life to improve your life fulfillment
- Identifying and transforming patterns in your life that block you from forming satisfying relationships or leading your most rewarding life
- Building greater self-awareness and self-confidence
- Learning how to set and keep healthy boundaries to reduce burnout
- Learning effective communication tools to use in your relationships
- Developing skills for better managing stress
- Identifying your strengths and how to use them in your life, along with areas for growth and how to improve yourself
- Healing from divorce, breakups, or other losses and moving forward with a life you love
- Dating coaching to help you find and keep your life partner
Reach Out to Schedule a Free Consultation for Couples or Individual Coaching!
- heartofthematter@marriagecounselingfortcollins.com
- (970)335-9190
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Note about the difference between coaching and therapy: Coaching can help you live a happier and more fulfilling life or have a better relationship, but there are times when coaching is not enough. When there is an untreated (i.e., not currently being worked on with another mental health professional) serious mental health disorder, substance abuse problem, or risk of harm to self or others, a higher level of care may be needed. In this case, we will help you find a referral to a mental health professional in your area who can help.