Marriage therapy provides a safe and confidential environment for couples to explore their issues and work towards resolving them. It involves a trained therapist who helps identify negative patterns of communication and behavior and guides couples toward building healthier relationships.

Yes, Dr. Reagan is a Nationally Certified Counselor and strives to provide high-quality care to clients and adhere to the ethical standards of the American Counselors Association. All client interactions and kept at the highest level of confidentiality.

We provide therapy services for individuals, couples, and families. Our services include individual, couples, and family therapy.

Every relationship has ups and downs, and it’s difficult and sometimes almost impossible to know the difference between a temporary rough patch or a more serious situation that will not change on its own. We can allow our relationship to reach a point of apparent futility and we still tell ourselves: (“Things will get better” or “We’re just under a lot of stress right now” or “This week has been better”).

The problem is that you are still the same people, with the same problems, and we have no real clue how to stop the stress and chaos.

It is not uncommon to hear this question from couples seeking help. Specifically, they wonder whether couples therapy will work for them. Evidenced based therapy can be a game changer and couples can easily learn to reconnect, communicate and to find ways to stop the conflict and restore love.

Only a few approaches to marriage counseling and couples therapy are “evidence-based,” meaning that the theory and techniques used have been shown by research to help couples make lasting positive changes to their relationships.

You need a counselor and coach that has a strong understanding of effective, evidence-based strategies for couple’s therapy

When therapy feels, unfocused with no defined plan, it can feel like a waste of time and couples who seek help from someone that doesn’t use an evidenced base approach can leave the sessions feeling their relationship is a lost cause. This is simply not true!

Each couple within every relationship has its own unique issues, but ideally, good marriage counseling is strategic and focused on helping a couple achieve their relationship goals. After the initial assessment we have a plan and begin to define specific goals for that couple. Time is spent learning to better communicate, which can turn sessions into opportunities to walk through recent problems and find new skills to reduce conflict. My goal is to aid the couple in putting love first and to help them regain the connectiveness they once shared.

Most couples find that they have a much better handle on their issues and they have developed goals, plans and skills to keep their relationship on track in as few as 6 to 10 sessions. This is such a small investment that can lead to a jackpot. Ask yourself, what is a long loving healthy relationship worth?

Fantastic relationships don’t just happen, but just like tending a garden, we can do the right things and the reward will be delicious.

Every couple has conflict, but great relationships are built by those that can see growth opportunities when there is disagreement. No two people are the same, and if they were, then one of them is unnecessary.

The happiest, healthiest, most successful couples are the ones who embrace the invitation to learn and to grow together.

Getting off track in your relationship is not entirely your fault. Chances are that you were never taught how to create and maintain a great relationships Luckily, there are proven evidence based ways to get you back on track.

I hear, I love you, but I am not in Love with you.

How can you begin to understand this statement? Emotions and feeling are a universal language. This person is torn between two conflicting emotions, but this is not love. They have lost the passion of the relationship. They care but there is no longer that sense of excitement.

Remember when your relationship started? You did everything to make the other person feel special and to show them you really cared. It was wonderful to hear, “I love you”, but love is not words, it is action and the feelings you get from those actions.

We take care to do the right things to protect our health, good food, exercise, and monitoring our lifestyles, and we should treat love the same, we must continue to care for the relationship if we want it to be strong. What are you doing to exercise you love? The good news is, that there are simple proven ways to improve your relationship and bring back the love.

To say I love you, but I am not in love with you, should be restated to, I care for you, but I’m not excited by you. Not to worry, this can be repaired.

Have you ever wondered; did I marry the right person? Like every other aspect of life, things tend to move through phases. When you fell in love, you couldn’t wait to hear from your love, and you longed to touch them and this happened without work or effort.

Falling in love is easy.

But after a few years in a relationship, the excitement fades. It happens in EVERY relationship. You begin to forget to take or make phone calls. The desire for physical touch become less welcome or looked for, and those cute things that you found so adorable, now get on your nerves.

You soon start to ask, “Did I marry the right person?” People blame their spouse for their unhappiness and look outside their marriage for fulfillment.

Extramarital fulfillment comes in all shapes and sizes. Infidelity is the most obvious. But sometimes people turn to work, church, a hobby, a friendship, excessive TV, or abusive substances.

The problem with your relationship is NOT outside your marriage. It lies within it.

Of course, you can fall in love with someone else. It is easy, in no time you’d feel better. But guess what, you will be in the same situation a few years later. THE KEY TO SUCCEEDING IN MARRIAGE IS NOT FINDING THE RIGHT PERSON; IT’S LEARNING TO LOVE THE PERSON YOU FOUND.

You can’t “find” LASTING love. You have to “make” it day in and day out. That’s why we have the expression “the labor of love.” Because it takes time, effort, and energy. And most importantly, it takes learning the simple skills of relationship happiness. You have to know WHAT TO DO TO make your marriage work.

Love is NOT a mystery. There are specific things you can do (with or without your spouse) to succeed with your marriage.

Just as there are physical laws of the universe (such as gravity), there are also laws for relationships. Just as the right diet and exercise program makes you physically stronger, certain habits in your relationship WILL make your marriage stronger. It’s a direct cause and effect. If you know and apply the laws, the results are predictable – you can “make” love.