Couples Therapy in Walnut Creek
Shannon Rogers provides couples counseling in Walnut Creek. She is a Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist and works with people from all backgrounds. She is committed to helping you resolve your relationship challenges so you can be happier and more fulfilled in your relationship.
Couples Therapy in Walnut Creek
Being in relationship isn’t always a walk in the park. It seems that as much as our relationships can bring us security, joy, and love they can bring confusion, frustration, and fear in equal measure. Even in the most loving relationships there are times when we feel distant from, annoyed by, distrustful of, or angry with our partners. People often come to couples therapy feeling stuck in a tangled web with little hope of being freed from it. In therapy, with time, attention, and effort:
Change can happen
New insights can be had
New skills can be learned
You can become disentangled
Couples counseling can help:
No one is born a relationship expert. I help couples understand themselves and look at current relationship struggles in new ways. With new awareness comes the capacity to make conscious choices versus reacting in unconscious ways. My approach is to both dig beneath the surface to try and understand what is driving the current problem and at the same time help you develop new skills for navigating the sometimes rocky terrain of relating. Therapy can help you:
get unstuck
have new insights
communicate better
make lasting change
address ambivalence
rebuild or develop trust
regulate your emotions
understand partner better
understand yourself better
improve coping strategies
set appropriate boundaries
learn new relationship skills
open up to love and to being loved
become more honest with yourself and your partner
bring awareness to underlying conflicts, issues, assumptions, or expectations
express difficult feelings such as jealousy, anger, or insecurity constructively
support each other through life transitions such as becoming parents, marriage, and aging
If you'd like to hear more about my approach please be in touch. I offer a free 20 minute phone consultation.
