The Center for Personal Growth & Creativity utilizes an eclectic model of marital and couples counseling that draws on a variety of theoretical and clinical approaches. An important goal is to successfully identify distorted core beliefs and examine how those beliefs generate unrealistic expectations of our partners that are a set-up for disappointment and anger. We also believe in the importance of teaching essential interpersonal skills such as “active” listening, effective communicating, and conflict resolution. Focus is on letting go of the need to be right in favor of developing empathy for how your partner may be experiencing events differently from you.
Traditional couples therapy is augmented for couples coping with sex addiction, adultery, or other breaches of trust. Issues such as dealing with the impact of discovery, processing the experience of betrayal, managing panic and rage responses, and making informed decisions about amount of disclosure are all addressed in understanding and sensitive ways. (See sex addiction treatment.)