COUPLES COACHING
Couples Coaching helps couples grow in friendship and partnership for kingdom impact. Whether you are in hostile gridlock or you have just grown distant from each other, coaching will get you back on the same page and bring you together for flourishing and fruitfulness. Breakdown in marriage usually starts with a breakdown in communication and a missing each other in expectations. Coaching helps the couple to grow in understanding themselves and their stories individually, so that they can grow to better understand their partner, and then grow together to establish their unique partnership and role in the kingdom of God. Couples Coaching is a relational and collaborative process in which the coach listens and works with the couple to identify strategies and solutions for growth and change.
Couples Coaching differs from traditional psychotherapy in that coaching does not include assessment, diagnosis or treatment planning as defined by the American Psychiatric Association. This means that couples coaching is not to be thought of as a substitute for clinical mental health. Life coaching assumes the mental health of the client/couple.
Also different from traditional psychotherapy, a coach will work with a client or couple to set goals for the time together and the process is typically present and future orientated. Coaching is typically action-orientated, solutions-focused and encouraging of change.