If you or your partner are considering divorce but are not completely sure that is the best path, then your are in a tough spot. Discernment Counseling is designed for you. It’s a chance to slowdown, take a breath, and look at your options for your relationship.
Discernment Counseling is a way of helping couples where one person is “leaning out” of the relationship and not sure that regular couples therapy would help, while the other is “leaning in” and is interested in healing the marriage.
The Discernment Counseling process can help you decide whether to try to restore your marriage to health, move toward to divorce, or take a time out and decide later.
The goal is for you to gain clarity and confidence about a direction, based on a deeper understanding of your relationship and its possibilities for the future.
The goal is not to heal your relationship but to decide if you want to try to heal it. You will each be treated with compassion and respect no matter how you are feeling about your marriage at the moment.
You will come in as a couple but the most important work occurs in one-to-one conversations with the therapist because you are starting out in different places.
Throughout the process, we will emphasize the importance of each of you seeing your own contributions to the problems and the possible solutions. This will be useful in future relationships even if this one ends.
There is a maximum of 5 sessions. The first session is usually 2 hours and the subsequent sessions are 1.5 or 2 hours.
Discernment Counseling is not suited for these situations:
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