Couples
Most of our couples enter into couples’ therapy when they have reached a point where their relationships are badly weathered and in need of serious repair. At Akua Family Therapy we take the time to listen to your specific and unique relationship situations and needs. Our therapists are passionate about working with you to revitalize your marriage/relationship and get you back to a place where you value each other and are satisfied with each other.
Some of our specialty areas: Sex issues, Communication, Infidelity, Erotic Recovery, Conflict Repair, Premarital Counseling, Relationship Enrichment, Intimacy, Friendship, Emotional Connection.
If you are newly engaged or in the beginning stages of your relationship, now is a great time to engage in either pre-marital therapy and/or enrich your relationship with valuable tools, skills and insights that can set you up for many years of success and healthy management of conflicts.
When you have reached that point where you don’t see any hope for repair in your marriage or romantic relationship, we will do our best to support you towards the goals that you set for yourself. If we are not able to provide you with the services that you need, we will kindly and professionally refer you to other services that may be able to better assist you.
Aaron Collins, Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist,
Certified Facilitator of Prepare/Enrich (P/E).
Prepare-Enrich is an Evidence-Based premarital and marital assessment tool.
More than 4 million couples have strengthened their relationships through taking the P/E assessment and working with a Certified Facilitator.
What people are saying about Prepare-Enrich.
“It’s nice to have a safe space to have difficult conversation.”
“Prepare/Enrich has helped me to know who it is that I married… …and to not be afraid of differences and conflict.”
Are You and Your Partner OPEN TO CHANGE???
- Develop Strengths and Skills.
- Reinforce what is good.
- Improve communication.
- Practice assertiveness by using “I” statements.
- Focus on being a better listener, by listening to understand.
- Focus on hearing the other person.
- Acknowledge your own roles in the problem.
- Learn to forgive and heal.
Perhaps you are early in your relationship, recently engaged, in a blended family, or married for many years. Whatever stage of relationship you are in, if you are ready and open to change, we are confident that we can help you improve your relationship.
Got Children?
- Your children will thank you later for investing in your relationship by engaging in couples therapy.
- Children often endure deep emotional wounds when witnessing marital and relationship discord.
- For example, children and teens often develop adaptive problem behaviors (internal and external) that hinder their functioning in school, socially and in other areas of life.
If you are seeing these kinds of symptoms and behaviors in your keiki, please give them the support they need.
- Spend quality time with your children and teens.
- Don’t fight in front of them, or say negative things about your spouse to them. Children do not need to be put in a position of taking sides.
- Consider taking your child or teen for individual therapy to help them process their thoughts and feelings with a trained professional.
Parents are emotional role models. The kind of couple dynamic you model for your children greatly effects their overall development throughout childhood and into adulthood.
Please see the Family Therapy, and Children & Teens page for more information about how these forms of therapy can be beneficial to your children. Click on the SERVICES tab for more.
