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Couples Counseling

Couples often have ways of relating (or non-relating) to each other that inhibit them from experiencing their significant other relationship as loving and fulfilling as they would like. Dr. Franklin’s couples counseling process provides both spouses insight into how their family of origin issues can be reenacted in their current relationships, and how their unique couple dynamic can undermine their relationship. Couples learn effective relationship skills to facilitate communication, passion, intimacy, fulfillment and healing. Couples nearly always report significant improvements in their intellectual, emotional, sexual and spiritual connections.

Dr. Franklin has trained in and applies an amalgam of traditional and current relationship therapy techniques including: Dr. Terry Real’s Relationship Empowerment Techniques, Harvel Hendrix’ Imago Relationship Therapy, Drs. John & Julie Gottman’s Couples Therapy, and John Gray’s work on gender differences.