In addition to finding individual healing and well-being, many of us desire healing within our personal relationships, especially a marriage. Marriage therapy can help you to uncover ways in which you can get to know yourself and your spouse more deeply, more compassionately, and with greater love.

When chronic or serious hurt has been present in the marriage, it is a wound to the bond with which God holds the two together. We often want quick fixes and find it hard to believe that suffering is a part of love. 

Marriage counseling is helpful in reducing suffering and helping you as a couple find ways to eliminate a large part of the suffering through: 

• The incorporation of new coping methods.
• Making changes in couple dynamics.
• Improved communication.
• Discovering different ways of loving one another.

In couples therapy, you will learn to discern ways of loving that you’ve either forgotten or never knew. You will be aided in gaining insight into both yourself and your spouse, empowering you to strengthen your bond and once again find joy and fulfillment in your relationship.

To accomplish this, our Catholic Christian marriage counseling includes individual sessions, couple sessions and possibly even family sessions – all according to your specific needs and circumstances.  

Every relationship has the stages of honeymoon and disillusionment, but those blessed relationships that agree to move to the working stage can achieve wholehearted acceptance and intimacy. That amazing sense of loving, belonging and trusting is the goodness which God created us to achieve. Though it is hard earned, the joy of the end result is its own reward.

“Marriage is your own project for the world.” ~ Saint Pope John Paul II

Do you find yourself wishing your family could just get along? When the issues go beyond Catholic Christian marriage counseling, family counseling is the better option. 

Families are an incredible gift from God so we understand how significant it is for one’s family to live and love in peace and harmony. It is beautiful to watch a family learn to love each other in new and improved ways and amazing to see how each family member affects the others so deeply- for better and worse. 

Family therapy can help your family strive for the greatest good, with the goal of providing a place of love and safety for each person so that all can thrive. Life is already hard, but life without the safe haven of your family can be debilitating. Relational healing allows for everyone to feel supported by the family unit.  

Our Catholic Christian therapy for families may include: 

• Sessions with the parents individually.
• Marriage therapy or couples therapy for the parents together.
• Sessions with the children as appropriate for their needs and healing. 
• Sessions with everyone together as a family.

It is our hope that your family will find a haven with us to help you through the healing journey.

“It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to love those close to us. It is easier to give a cup of rice to relieve hunger than to relieve the loneliness and pain of someone unloved in our own home. Bring love into your home for this is where our love for each other must start.”~ Saint Mother Teresa of Calcutta 

Are you having trouble figuring out how to parent effectively? Are you having trouble connecting with your child or children? 

We know how difficult parenting can be, so the counselors at Holy Family Counseling Center can help guide you by sharing skills and strategies that make a positive difference. 

Therapy helps parents and coparents strive for the greatest good, with the goal of providing a place of love and safety for each parent and for each child. Services from Holy Family Counseling Center can provide the experience of healing through sessions with the parents and the children as appropriate.

“He gives strength to the weary, He strengthens the powerless. Youths grow tired and weary, the young stumble and fall, but those who hope in Yahweh will regain their strength, they will sprout wings like eagles, though they run they will not grow weary, though they walk they will never tire.” ~ Isaiah 40:29-31.

Do you need help fully understanding or accepting your complex and changing identity, your emotions or coping with the pressures of social media, pornography, alcohol, or drugs? 

Everyone knows how difficult and significant the teenage years truly are. These years encompass trying to fit in with peers while at the same time trying to find one’s own unique individuality. This stage of life comes with great misunderstanding, hormonal changes, rebellion, arguments and general struggles. 

Just as a couple is part of a “society” or “systems” bigger than themselves, teens are even more at the mercy of the systems they are a part of. They are limited in improving their life circumstances without the help of parents. 

With this in mind, parents are an integral part of a teen’s healing path. If parents are unable or unwilling to participate, the teen can still be led on a path to achieve inner peace, but this is usually a longer and harder road. Therapy will help your family strive for the greatest good of all so that you can grow together. 

“Being in therapy is about finding hope and having someone to go with you through the hard times while offering a road map for the most success.” ~ Sandra H. McKay, BSN, M.Ed., LMFT

Could you use some help understanding your goals, aspirations and direction in life? Do you need help healing your hurts and developing a love of life? 

Holy Family Counseling Center offers counseling services for young adults of all faiths. The post-high school years are a vital time in life for adult identity formation. Our programs for young adults can help you or your loved one become more self-aware and learn to navigate the adult world. 

We all have a purpose that can shift and change as life goes on. Not understanding or knowing your purpose can be an unsettling experience. Our caring therapists are here to provide support, not pressure, as you begin to gain clarity about your future path. 

“To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.” ~ Bl. John Henry Cardinal Newman

The counselors at Holy Family Counseling Center share a Catholic worldview with the clergy. We are available to all clergy, seminarians, deacons, consecrated and other servants of the church who are seeking counsel.