With the divorce rate in Michigan and in the rest of the USA running at 50% or more of all marriages, it is no surprise that so many successful couples have turned to marriage counseling. It is a sensible alternative which keeps alive your significant investment in your partner.
Do you feel that you can’t bear the conflict of your relationship anymore?
Are you tired of fighting about the same things over and over again?
Do you fantasize about being with another type of person?
Do you feel your partner doesn’t understand you?
Do you want more from your relationship—not just the status quo of getting by?
Marriage counseling is an investment you can make in your relationship which will pay dividends over a long life together. Seeking counseling sets a shining example for your children, and actually helps them with future relationships.
Marriage counseling is for couples who...
Want to enrich a good relationship
Are just beginning a relationship
Are in a difficult relationship and want to resolve longstanding conflicts
Are in serious distress and are willing to work to see if the relationship can still work
Marriage counseling helps couples...
Re-establish the excitement and connection of partners' early time dating together
Identify factors that originally lead to your partner selection
Develop a safe way to encourage the safe expression of true feelings
Identify pathways for partners to heal old wounds and grow
Develop new communication skills which break destructive cycles of conflict
Establish a deeper level of trust with your partner by increasing safety
Transform a relationship into a lasting source of love and companionship
With over 20 years practicing marriage counseling in Michigan, Sally has the experience needed to help couples through troubled times, and allow their relationship to heal. She often blends several psychological theories and techniques of marriage counseling which has proven successful in Sally’s work with couples.
Don’t wait for a marital crisis to cause serious problems. Contact Sally so that she can learn more about your situation and tell you how she could help. For more information or else to schedule an appointment please call (248) 645-5960 or send an email to sally@sallypalaian.com.
Based on Dr. Harville Hendrix's popular book, Getting the Love You Want, this marriage counseling technique combines intensive self-awareness work with behavior techniques that couples can use outside of counseling sessions to create more safety and security with each other.
Sally is a Certified Imago Relationship Therapist and she uses this technique with her Michigan clients to establish a safe and neutral place where couples can quickly begin real healing.
Imago therapy is based on the premise that our childhood experiences form an unconscious image or Imago. Our unconscious images play a powerful role in the formation of our identity and choice in partner selection. These unconscious forces that attract us to our partner are also the source of conflicts and power struggles that develop in any committed relationship.
Imago therapy provides a pathway for learning how to heal rather than hurt by becoming conscious of the childhood wounds which so greatly influence our patterns of perception and behavior.
Imago therapy also helps in the development of important skills for the resolutions of ineffectual behaviors and self-defeating defensive strategies.
Imago relationship therapy is also for singles as well as couples who want to...
Understand Past Relationships
Prepare for healthy relating
Break destructive patterns
Put old hurts to rest
Create the groundwork for a satisfying and fulfilling relationship
You and your partner will learn how to break patterns of habitual conflict using the Imago Dialogue. This involves exercises taught to you by Sally that you can take and use at home which will make it easier for you to discuss important issues with your partner.
Issues that always ignite arguments that solve nothing. Don't wait for a marital crisis to cause serious problems. Contact Sally so that she can learn more about your situation and tell you how she could help. For more information or else to schedule an appointment please call (248) 645-5960 or send an email to sally@sallypalaian.com