Do you want a strong foundation for married life with your partner?
Are you exploring your gender, LGBTQIA+, and sexuality, and want a safe place to build good communication around these topics?
Do you and your partner have a series of traumas in your past or losses that are stealing joy from this time of romance and engagement?
Are you looking to blend families with your partner and build a new meaning of family together?
No matter what is going on in your premarital life, holistic premarital therapy in Greenwich, CT can give you the tools to feel confident in the foundation you are creating. From the foundation of commitment and trust, you can learn how to communicate what you are feeling and build emotional intimacy. Furthermore, holistic premarital counseling in Greenwich, CT helps distant couples develop a playful, strong, meaningful foundation for a long-term lasting marriage.
If you and your partner have lost a parent or sibling, or have been through trauma, this can make being happy about getting married more challenging.
To add, talking about having children can be scary. For one, your partner may have fears around how their own parent neglected them. They might fear that they are going to be, neglectful parent one day. Or, a person may feel that they won’t be a good enough parent. Also, if you have lost a parent or sibling, it makes wedding planning hard. For one, you know they will not be able to be at your wedding day, but it can be sad. Often, therapy helps with overcoming sad losses in life. Going about your every day life, you might be just fine not dealing with the death of your parents. However, on a wedding day, so many family traditions are part of the day. Overall, wedding planning can trigger loss and trauma symptoms.
Are you grieving the loss of your parent or sibling?
Are you needing support around building spiritual connection into your wedding day?
Your counselor can help you understand and find ways to grieve. Often, the loss of your parent or sibling is sad, but can be a healing part of your wedding. Also, you can talk about honoring them on your joyful wedding day. To add, your wedding day and your marriage mean means creating something very special for the two of you. Your wedding has nothing to do with others. Through holistic premarital counseling in Greenwich, Connecticut, you can learn how to overcome loss and trauma as a unit together. Grief and loss are heavy to carry alone. Any sadness around childhood trauma and loss can make feeling like a team in your relationship more difficult.
To begin, click the pink button below for a phone consultation for premarital counseling.
So, from premarital counseling in Greenwich, Connecticut, you can develop a toolbox of communication strategies for married life.
Any unresolved loss or trauma that is not being talked about can lead to anger, criticism, and resentment. Also, premarital counseling in Greenwich, CT can be the safe place to talk about loss. Overall, grief and loss take nurturing. You can talk about what it’s like to not have your deceased parent at your wedding day. Lastly, you can talk about how you want to remember them in spirit.
We help premarital couples talk about gender, sexuality, LGBTQIA+ and do so nurturing way
If you’re part of the LGBTQIA+ community, or are same-sex couple, you might want a strong foundation of tools. Maybe, you want to come out to your partner. Perhaps, you identify as non-binary or are gender questioning and don’t know how talk about it. You might feel afraid of what they’ll think or say. Perhaps, you want to tell your spouse that you are bisexual. Maybe, you are afraid of how this might impact your future and wedding day. Would your spouse call the wedding off if they know you are bisexual? What else comes up around gender and sexuality? Could they use your preferred pronouns more often? Do they love and accept you? Will your new mother-in-law reject you if she finds out you’re non-binary?
Fears are real! And, at the end of the day, all that truly matters is the two of you. Lastly, premarital counseling in Greenwich, CT helps couples see that they to be are the only people that matter.
Setting boundaries and being yourself
Some of our LGBTQIA+ counseling specialties include transgender couples, non-binary, gender questioning, gender nonconforming, and gender fluid clients. As well, we support couples in talking about their gender and sexuality with each other. There are many fears of rejection and internalize shame that comes up around LGBTQIA+. However, the are important conversations couples need to have before marriage begins.
Why is it important to have a safe place to have meaningful conversations to better your future marriage and relationship?
As well, if these conversations do not take place, couples end up on a very rocky and unstable foundation. Getting married means learning how to set boundaries with in-laws and putting aside the judgment of others. You and your spouse to be can learn how to create a foundation of strength. From premarital counseling in Greenwich, CT, you can build connection, and emotional intimacy for a healthy married life. Lastly, the team of marriage and family therapists at Wisdom Within Counseling love to help couples! In time, you and your fiancé can build a toolbox of connection tools. Lastly, calm communication tools help you create the marriage you’ve always desired.
From holistic premarital counseling in Greenwich, Connecticut, you can learn how to practice self-care.
From therapy, learn how to set healthy boundaries with extended family and be your authentic LGBTQIA+ self.
If you are part of the LGBTQIA+ community, you and your spouse deserve to feel safe. Unfortunately, bullying, hate and oppression are present in our culture and society. With that said, you deserve to have a loving marriage free from bullying and oppression. If your extended family members are putting you down, premarital therapy supports boundaries. Also, if you are criticizing your spouse behind their back, that can be devastating for a marriage. As well, if your in laws or parents are not on board with your gender identity, it can hurt. If parents are not affirming to your same-sex marriage, this can make marrying challenging.
How can therapy help support same-sex couples and LGBTQIA+ couples?
Even if your family may never be on board with your same-sex marriage, you can learn how to feel confident. From premarital therapy, you can build a foundation in your marriage and care for it. Holistic premarital counseling can help you build the relationship you have always wanted. At the same time, you can step away from dysfunction that was taught in childhood trauma.
What does it mean to build a good foundation for your married life?
In general, building a foundation for married life starts with understanding commitment and trust. Many times, premarital couples never talk about these important values and simply assume they share them. Instead, premarital therapy and premarital counseling allows you a safe space to talk. Slowly, you can talk about what trust means to you and the opposite of trust, betrayal. In Greenwich, CT premarital counseling, you can talk about what it means to be committed. What does commitment really mean? This is a great question and can take time to answer. In general, premarital counseling in Greenwich helps couples understand how it feels when commitment is broken. Skills of empathy support long lasting love in your marriage. As well, you and your partner can learn how to repair after a fight.
To begin, click the button below for holistic premarital counseling in Greenwich, CT for emotional intimacy and playfulness.
Do you find that you feel overwhelmed, sad, or hopeless after a big blowout or conflict?
Premarital conflicts can sometimes get heated because of intense emotions. Friends dance, feelings of jealousy, anxiety, grief, sadness, anger, or even frustration m may need to be released. By incorporating creative therapies, we help you release these intense emotions in healthy ways. For instance, through art therapy, music therapy, yoga therapy, and outdoor walking sessions, you can relieve these emotions. Even over video, mindfulness meditation, and breathing techniques are available. Your holistic premarital therapist in Greenwich, Connecticut can help you repair after a fight. Plus, these expressive arts therapies including yoga, meditation, mindfulness, and music help couples overcome trauma. As well, these offer grounding skills, centering skills, and lifelong coping strategies. Your holistic premarital therapist can help you feel confident and authentic in your body. From there, you can extend that self-love to your marriage.
To begin, click the button below for a phone consult for overcoming distance and loneliness and building communication strategies.
Why is learning to repair emotionally after a conflict in your relationship so important?
Many couples do not know how to successfully repair.
Often, after a fight, many couples simply do not speak. And, couples get stuck in a cycle of silence and emotional shut down. If fights become escalated or high conflict fights occur, this can be sad and hurtful. Maybe, your partner says things to you that are hurtful and rude when mad. Or, both of you are saying things to each other that are intentionally hurtful. As well, you and your spouse to be may know exactly how to hurt each other verbally. Maybe, one of you is trying to get the last word in after a fight.
Fighting does not feel good for anyone and premarital counseling and help you overcome conflict and healthy ways.
As well, relationship fighting does not have to feel awful or hopeless. Communication tools can be helpful in your relationship. So, working with a holistic premarital therapist can help you sort through your thoughts and feelings and slow down. You can talk about blowups and learn how to build emotional intimacy afterwards. In general, your relationship therapist can teaches you how to communicate what you felt. As well, you can how to apologize, how to validate your partner emotionally, and how to forgive. And, holistic premarital counseling help you both communicate. Often, yelling and the silent treatment don’t feel good to either of you. Your premarital therapist can pick up on the subtle relationship cues.
In general, your pre-marital counselor in Greenwich, Connecticut helps you put time and attention back onto your romance and your marriage.
Does it feel like you and your partner are living like roommates or like two ships passing in the night?
Premarital counseling in Greenwich, Connecticut supports a foundation for closeness, connection, and intimacy.
Perhaps, you want to improve the healthy touch, give-and-take, and sensual energy in your romance. Asking for more sex and pleasure can sometimes feel intimidating. For one, you have sexual needs and you are looking to talk about them with your partner in a safe space.
If you want a better sex life, you and your partner can learn how to bring playfulness, curiosity, and mystery into your bedroom.
Overall, your holistic premarital therapist in Greenwich, CT can come up with ideas to build playfulness. And, playfulness can be around sex such as role-play, and sensate touch homework. For many couples, they fall into the stuck roles of caretaking for one another. Yes, caretaking is something we all need. However many struggling premarital couples lose touch with romance, playfulness, and their sex life. After having responsibility, sex can feel hard to do. Our team of premarital therapists can help you create a strong foundation. This way nothing interferes with your sex life, intimacy, romance and loving partnership.
Are you blending your family and wanting support around premarital counseling for a second marriage?
When families are blending, this offers a unique set of challenges for both parents and children. Perhaps, you are on a journey and separated from your child’s other parent. Now, you are considering making a brand new family through remarriage. For one, it may have been an emotional, long journey separating, divorcing, and ending your first marriage. After all that, love is here again. Now, you have found love again and are ready to marry, but it means blending your families.
What happens to blending families in the premarital counseling process?
Blending the family that you’ve created in a second marriage can be a beautiful expression of love. However, there can be conflict. So, premarital counseling when you are blending your family can be helpful. It can give parents positive tools to help children cope with adjusting to a new sibling. Also, blending families can add a layer of intense emotions. For some, anger around dealing with exes is present. So, holistic premarital counseling in Greenwich, CT can help you manage and deal with emotions in healthy ways around blending your family.
My partner does not listen to me and I really want to feel heard.
Or, if you feel like your partner doesn’t listen to you, Wisdom Within Counseling can help. Overall, your premarital therapist in Greenwich, Connecticut can help your partner learn how to emotionally validate your feelings and emotions. This is a fun process in couples therapy!
Overall, the skill of emotional validation is some thing that many people do not learn in childhood.
If anything, children learn how to stuff their emotions aside. Children learn that showing emotions is not safe. Maybe, as a little boy, you had alcoholic parents that neglected you. Or, you wanted to wear pink and a strict parent told you that that was unacceptable. Basically, parents shared that you should not express yourself in that way.
How did childhood traumas and memories play a role in to emotional validation in your marriage?
In your adulthood, this memory may not seem relevant. Rather, in premarital therapy, we like to talk about these experiences of being emotionally invalidated. Being emotionally invalidated in childhood can make it very difficult to connect and empathize with a romantic partner in adulthood. To add, the team of family and marital therapists and Wisdom Within counseling specialize in complex trauma. Now, this includes PTSD, and helping adults over calm childhood trauma. Emotional intimacy and building empathy skills are very important to be a good listener. Lastly, the team at Wisdom Within Counseling help you develop and grow a strong, playful foundation for married life.
To begin, click the button below to start in premarital counseling in Greenwich, CT for confidence and closeness.
For one, if your relationship is filled with criticism, defensiveness, or a silent treatment, this is a recipe for divorce.
Overall, premarital counseling in Greenwich, Connecticut allows you to build a holistic coping toolbox to better communicate. Therefore, from better communication, you can build better listening skills and more emotional intimacy. Often times, for a better sex life, emotional intimacy needs to be increased. The feeling of being able to confide in your partner is special. And, when you can not trust your partner, it feels scary and confusing. We want you to have meaningful conversations together. Simply put, meaningful communication is a wonderful gift. Wisdom Within Counseling teaches you how to do so. However, many distant, conflictual couples lose the ability to build meaningful conversations and intimate discussions. Going to premarital counseling in Greenwich, CT gives you the safe space to dive into what your relationship is lacking. Then, you can address areas to nurture, and goals for a successful, future marriage.
What are core values that every successful marriage has?
In every marriage that is long lasting, there is a sense of playfulness and humor. Plus, playfulness and humor are resources for a couples to be able to have fun anytime. In life, playfulness and humor help you live in the present moment. With many responsibilities ranging from child care, parenting, to building a career, premarital couples are pushed apart by today’s culture.
Also, it can be hard to be playful and laugh when mad or anxious.
Couples these days need to make an extra effort to stay connected and close to one another. So, learning how to be playful and use humor on an every day basis can build emotional connection. Premarital counseling in Greenwich, Connecticut allows you to use drama therapy, yoga therapy or art therapy. Plus, premarital counseling in Greenwich, Connecticut allows you to use drama therapy, yoga therapy and holistic therapies. So, you may pick from creative expressive art, walking, and art therapy for playfulness into premarital therapy sessions.
And, in premarital counseling sessions, you can learn how to use playfulness and bring out a playful side of yourself.
It might be like working a new muscle. Being playful and silly together as a couples might feel like an adjustment after being responsible or serious. For many premarital couples, the use of playfulness and laughter are essential. It is very healing for you and your spouse to smile together and build positive emotional moments. Being playful together and being silly are some of the greatest strengths successful, long-term couples have. So, if you and your partner struggle with laughter, smiles, joy, and playfulness, contact us at Wisdom Within Counseling. So, we can help you bring that playfulness right in a premarital therapy session. Playfulness and humor will be important tools for a strong foundation for married life.
What is unique and different about the type of therapy at Wisdom Within Counseling?
At Wisdom Within Counseling, the theme of marriage and family therapist offer a variety of creative, expressive arts. For premarital couples, sitting and talking on the couch can be very healing. As well, our team of marriage and family therapist offer premarital counseling over video and telehealth. You can meet with her therapist via a good Internet connection on a laptop or phone. A lot of people choose to work with a therapist over video because they do not have a specialist locally.
Who are we?
At Wisdom Within Counseling, we are a team of marriage and family therapy specialist. We combine creative expressive arts to offer options for communication and confidence. As well, we specialize in looking at you as a whole person, mind, body, and spirit. Additionally, we talk about your family history and childhood. We see you with a holistic perspective. From therapy, you can gain awareness of your holistic inner wisdom from within yourself. Additionally, you can better yourself and your romance by tapping into your creative sides.
In expressive arts in counseling, you may find that you release a memory, feel freedom, or access a different part of yourself.
Simply put, painting with acrylics, doing watercolor, and using clay offer a release beyond words. And, using your body to dance in a session can help you express yourself and build a strong foundation for your marriage. You might want to bang on one of our African drums. Or, you may play the guitar and express anger or anxiety through songs. To add, Wisdom Within Counseling embraces all forms of creative emotional expression in couples counseling. Also, Wisdom Within Counseling finds that these creative, holistic, expressive therapies are very beneficial for reconnecting couples.
Why do holistic premarital counseling in Greenwich, CT?
Many couples have been looking for the right fit therapist for a while. Or, you may have had a bad past experience in traditional therapy and are looking for something a bit more alternative or holistic.
Whether you want to meet over video on Telehealth or in person, our team of marriage and family therapists would love to help you better your premarital relationship. As well, we would love to help you build a foundation of important relationship skills to communicate together. Also, you can gain tools to listen and to set boundaries with extended family as necessary. Maybe, you want to talk about your LGBTQIA+ identity, coming out as transgender, or that you are questioning your sexuality with your spouse to be. We specialize in transgender affirming care, queer Firmin care, and LGBTQ affirming care. Maybe, you want to talk about your LGBTQ identity in counseling. Or, you want to talk about coming out as transgender, or that you are questioning your sexuality. Overall, we specialize in transgender affirming care, queer affirming care, and LGBTQ affirming care.
What should I expect in holistic premarital counseling in Greenwich, Connecticut?
In holistic premarital counseling in Greenwich, Connecticut, you and your spouse can talk about what it means to create the relationship you desire. Why is important to talk? Often, couples are just going through the motions. For one, you might go to work, and truly think everything is just fine. But, your spouse might be having a very lonely experience of being in the relationship. And, you might not even know it all. Plus, premarital counseling can give you the safe space to talk about anything that is going on in your life. For instance, a grandparent who is sick and passing away is a stressor. You may be stressed out about wedding planning and need help with some of the organizational aspects.
No matter what is going on, you and your romantic partner can have a safe place to create an authentic, loving marriage foundation.
You can talk about what things from your childhood you want to re-create. Also, you can talk about what things you don’t want to bring into your marriage. Plus, premarital counseling is a beautiful experience of building a meaningful, loving relationship, all starting with the foundation.
