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Marriage Counseling At Take Charge, Inc. Helps Blended Families Work Through Adjustments

Marriage counseling can help when blending two families together. It can result in a beautiful new family, filled with unique bonds and relationships, and it can also come with its share of struggles. Marriage is one of the most important relationships we will ever have, but it can also be one of the most complicated.
It won’t necessarily be easy, and there will definitely be bumps in the road, but if you put in the time and effort needed to bring everyone together, your blended family can be stronger and happier than you’d ever imagined.
 
What Defines a Blended Family?
By definition, a blended family consists of a couple residing with children they have had together and/or children one or both of them has from a previous relationship.
 
Important Considerations to Make
There are a number of things to consider when becoming a blended family. These may include understanding how the changes coming about will affect each member of the family individually as well as how the family, as a single unit rather than two separates, will change and grow and evolve into a new entity.
At Take Charge, Inc., Terri Dichiser uses Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy (EFT) to help couples work on their relationship with marriage counseling and transitioning to a blended family.
 
Marriage counseling can help blended families.
Changes to Routine and Ritual
As an example, each family, as a separate unit, will have their own rituals and routines. Rituals, also commonly referred to as traditions, are a set of behaviors that are often repeated and have significant meaning – they are a way of transferring family values, history, and culture from older generations to younger ones. Routines are the ways by which a family gets through their day-by-day lives – they are often essential to functionality of the family unit. Trying to create a blend of both families’ routines and rituals can be difficult – but it is possible.
 
How to Ease the Adjustment
There are a number of ways that can help both, you and your partner, as well as each of the children involved, get through the transition from living separately to becoming a single unit and go as smoothly as possible. Marriage counseling involving EFT shows that more than 90 percent of couples significantly improved. EFT is therapy for marriage counseling based on more than 20 years of clinical studies with proven results.  It is very important that the family identify realistic expectations and not address the desire that it will immediately be the Brady Brunch.
 
Find Activities That Unite
A great way for new blended families to bond is to find activities that everyone enjoys and do them together. By choosing activities that are enjoyed by everyone, you are ensuring that everyone feels included. Group activities are a fun way for everyone, especially the children, to get to know each other and bond with their new siblings/step-parent.
For more information about marriage counseling, call Take Charge, Inc. at (913) 239-8255. To schedule an appointment, click here.

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Marriage Counseling At Take Charge, Inc. Helps Couples Understand Emotions, How To Deal With Them

Marriage counseling can help couples understand their emotions and how they deal with them are the key to improving their relationship. At Take Charge, Inc. in Overland Park, Kansas, Terri Clinton Dichiser works with couples using Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), which has worked very well for couples.

Marriage is one of the most important relationships we will ever have, but it can also be one of the most complicated. EFT helps couples by changing their interactions during stressful times by addressing their emotional reactions. EFT leads to changes in emotional responses so that the marital bond is strengthened, and a more secure attachment is built.

Terri, a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor, is one of a handful of therapists in the Kansas City and surround areas who has completed different levels of EFT. She’s also a member of the International Centre for Excellence in Emotionally Focused Therapy.

By using EFT in marriage counseling, Terri is able to go to the present moment with couples and discuss what’s going on at that time. Instead of using the older “I feel” statements, one of the spouses will describe their emotions and how it feels in their body. Then Terri works with the couple about what it means to them and how it affects their body. Processing this together with your spouse in marriage counseling offers insight and changes how they relate to each other.

Marriage counseling at Take Charge, Inc. helps couples understand emotions and how to deal with them.Terri uses EFT to help you and your spouse move past the surface problems you face into the root issues that brought your relationship to this point. In these root issues, Terri guides you to recognize the destructive patterns of behavior and communication you and your spouse have created in your relationship. Couples recognize these patterns and behaviors are the enemy in the marriage, not each another. A spouse, knowing they will be heard and understood by their partner, will feel safe going to each other when problems arise.

EFT research shows:
·         More than 70% of couples turned their relationship around; from distressed – no matter how distressed – to happy  and

·         More than 90% of couples “significantly improved.

EFT is based on 20 years of clinical studies with proven results for couples in crisis. EFT counseling is based on therapy with your spouse in the safe environment of Terri’s office to help you create a haven of safety and strength in your marriage – marriage based on a connection with your spouse that makes you stronger as an individual and in your marriage.

Terri ‘s passion is your relationship and believes in the effectiveness of EFT and the benefits it will offer your relationship. Terri recognizes that all relationships/marriages are as unique as the people who are in them.

For more information about marriage counseling, call Take Charge, Inc. at (913) 239-8255. To schedule an appointment, click here.

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Individual Counseling Uses Emotionally Focused Therapy To Help Address Emotions

Individual counseling at Take Charge, Inc. in Overland Park, Kansas, with Terri Clinton Dichiser provides a safe, comfortable environment that allows you to put your thoughts and feeling into words, without fear of criticism or judgment. She will guide you into a better understanding and possibly a different perspective on your life’s circumstances.

Terri, a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor, believes healing and understanding go together and most of life’s issue can be managed and maintained through a consistent, commitment to you. If an area in your life is having a negative impact on your ability to live a fulfilled life, Terri will help you bring that area under your control and turn it into a positive.

Terri uses Emotionally Focused Therapy, also known as EFT, which is now being used in individual counseling. It was once used solely for couples counseling. Terri is one of a handful of therapists in the Kansas City area who has completed various levels of EFT training. Terri is also a current member of the International Centre for Excellence in Emotionally Focused Therapy.

Individual counseling helps address emotions.

EFT helps individuals change their interactions by altering their emotional reactions during stressful occurrences.

Through individual counseling, people can learn to regulate emotions, learn how to connect with themselves and also connect to others. Terri will work with you on those emotions, so when facing a situation, you can learn to do it differently by changing it and reshaping it.

EFT is a short-term approach to therapy based on the attachment needs of each individual.  EFT uncovers and treats deep core issues rather than focusing on surface behaviors.  People can greatly benefit from EFT treatment with individual counseling.

Through individual counseling, you can learn how to bring your emotions to the front and center to be dealt with and to bring healing to your life. Terri has a unique way of helping you not only address individual issue but open the door to expand the scope of those individual issues to incorporate the significant relationships in your life. Some or all of these relationships can play a part, whether small or significant, on the stresses in your life and how you move beyond them to a place of well-being.

For more information about individual counseling and EFT, call Take Charge, Inc. at (913) 239-8255. To schedule an appointment, click here.

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Marriage Counseling at Take Charge, Inc., Helps Couples Regain Intimacy In Their Sex Lives

Marriage counseling in Overland Park and Johnson County, Kansas, with Terri Dichiser at Take Charge, Inc., can help couples regain intimacy and improve their sex lives. Sex is a bonding activity and when couples are emotionally open and responsive to each other, it’s key to building a loving bond.

Many long-term couples experience a decline in their sexuality after a while or feel that it’s just not exciting as it used to be. Others struggle to negotiate different levels of desire, where one partner is more interested than the other.

Here’s an important secret: You can have a hot, passionate relationship with your partner in a long-term marriage. Not only is it possible, it can get even better over time, as you learn to know each other more intimately and feel safe to explore the different sides of your sexuality.

Marriage counseling at Take Charge, Inc. helps couples regain intimacy.

Terri utilizes Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy (EFT) to help couples reconnect with one another. She uses therapy and marriage counseling to help couples recognize the patterns they have established in their relationship and offers tools and strategies to break those patterns to create a renewed sense of safety and security with your spouse

EFT research shows:
·         More than 70% of couples turned their relationship around; from distressed – no matter how distressed  and
·         More than 90% of couples “significantly improved.

EFT is  therapy based on 20 years of clinical studies with proven results for couples in marriage counseling. EFT counseling is based on therapy with your spouse in the safe environment of Terri’s office to help you create a haven of safety and strength in your marriage. Marriage based on a connection with your spouse that makes you stronger as an individual and in your marriage.

Many people think that talking about sex takes the mystery out of it. Some just feel uncomfortable with it — and our culture certainly isn’t very good at supporting healthy sexual awareness. But talking openly and honestly with marriage counseling at Take Charge, Inc., in Overland Park, Kansas, about your sexual needs, and desires with a receptive partner will boost passion while deepening intimacy.

Terri uses EFT during marriage counseling to help you and your spouse move past the surface problems you face into the root issues that brought your relationship to this point. In these root issues, Terri guides you to recognize the patterns of behavior and communication you and your spouse have created in your relationship. Couples recognize these patterns and behaviors are the enemy in the marriage, not each another.

For more information about marriage counseling at Take Charge, Inc., visit https://takechargeinc.net/marriage-counseling/ and call (913) 239-8255.

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Marriage Counseling – Couples Can Work Through Dangerous Dialogues

Marriage counseling with Terri Clinton Dichiser at Take Charge, Inc., can help you find your way out of the three common dialogues that couples get stuck in. You can find your way out, and Terri provides an atmosphere for couples to connect to one another again.

One of the most common dialogues couples can get stuck in is mutual blame-It is not Me, It’s You. It is an attack-attack pattern.  This is a dead-end pattern, and no one wins. Fights can progress to a who gets to blame who contest, mutual attacks and accusations. This is the type of dialogue that can trap couples in a no-solution emotional starvation and insecurity.

The second common dialogue is when one partner reaches out, even in a negative way, and the other steps back and the pattern repeats over and over again. Each partner needs an emotional connection to each other, but they also have a fear of rejection and abandonment. One person is demanding and protests the disconnection and the other person withdraws protesting the implied criticism.  This is an endless loop and becomes very familiar causing fatigue.

The third common dialogue is when couples freeze each other out-there is a deadly silence in the relationship. Humans are not wired for this type of emotional and physical isolation. The relationship will fail if couples continue to not communicate at all.

Marriage counseling at Take Charge, Inc. improves communication.

Terri uses EFT to help you and your spouse move past the surface problems you face into the root issues that brought your relationship to this point. In these root issues, Terri guides you to recognize the destructive patterns of behavior and communication you and your spouse have created in your relationship. Couples recognize these patterns and behaviors are the enemy in the marriage, not each another.

Terri ‘s passion is your relationship. Terri believes in the effectiveness of EFT and the benefits it will offer your partner relationship. Terri recognizes that all relationships/marriages are as unique as the people who are in them. Terri allows the EFT process to reveal the unique qualities of each partner and how these qualities work in the relationship.

Terri utilizes Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy (EFT) to help couples reconnect with one another. She uses therapy and marriage counseling to help couples recognize the patterns they have established in their relationship and offers tools and strategies to break those patterns to create a renewed sense of safety and security with your spouse.

EFT research shows:
·         More than 70% of couples turned their relationship around; from distressed – no matter how distressed – to happy
·         More than 90% of couples “significantly improved.”

EFT is counseling therapy based on 20 years of clinical studies with proven results for couples in crisis. EFT counseling is based on therapy with your spouse in the safe environment of Terri’s office to help you create a haven of safety and strength in your marriage.  Marriage based on a connection with your spouse that makes you stronger as an individual and in together in your marriage.

Couples can find their way out of these demon dialogues with marriage counseling. When each partner is willing to work on their marriage, they can succeed.

For more information about marriage counseling at Take Charge, Inc., call (913) 239-8255. To schedule an appointment, click here.

Terri Clinton Dichiser

A Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) in Kansas and Missouri, Terri Clinton Dichiser has provided exceptional service to clients since 1991.

Working with families and individuals facing challenging situations, Terri helps clients address concerns in new and constructive ways.

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