Many clients and peers ask how our Naya Clinics Divorce Therapists reconcile being marriage and couples’ counselors with being  divorce counselors as well. Peers and clients often wonder if that is not an admission on our part that marriage and couples counseling does not work. We categorically beg to differ.

 

In the same way we believe every individual is unique, we equally believe that every relationship is unique. In the same way we believe that there are no “off the shelf” therapies that we can use to help every individual we see, and that we do not have the right to impose what we think is a solution on an individual, we also do not believe that there is one size fits all solution for relationship problems between couples.

 

Some couples come to counseling wanting to stay together, and we will help them have the best relationship they can have as a couple. In the same way, some couples’ come into counseling wanting to separate, and we will help them have the best relationship with each other as they separate and beyond. Our job is not to tell people what they should do, our job is to help people explore what their feelings are about their options, and to be as prepared and positive about the choices they make as they can possibly be.

 

Furthermore, half of all first marriages end in divorce. It is therefore imperative in our minds to provide support to members of the community who might be stressed and suffering in long custody battles and complicated financial arrangements that leaves many depressed, anxious and out of balance.