by Randi Fredricks, Ph.D. | Jun 29, 2025 | Communication, Counseling, Marriage, Relationships
Marriage is one of life’s most significant commitments, and yet many couples invest more time planning their wedding than preparing for their marriage. Premarital counseling performed by a Marriage and Family Therapist provides a proactive opportunity for engaged...
by Randi Fredricks, Ph.D. | May 31, 2025 | Anxiety, Counseling, Family Therapy, Marriage, Psychotherapy, PTSD
Psychotherapy, often referred to as talk therapy or counseling, is a collaborative treatment process grounded in dialogue between a trained mental health professional and a client. Its core purpose is to help individuals understand their feelings, confront emotional...
by Randi Fredricks, Ph.D. | Apr 16, 2020 | Anxiety, Communication, Marriage, Relationships |
A global, novel virus that keeps us contained in our homes—maybe for months—is already reorienting our relationship to government, to the outside world, even to each other. Most of us are accustomed to driving to our place of work, be it our own business or place of...
by Randi Fredricks, Ph.D. | Jul 11, 2018 | Communication, Marriage, Relationships |
As the word implies, stonewalling is building a figurative wall. It is an act of withdrawing from a conversation by refusing to engage or participate in whatever another person is discussing. Usually, that other person is asking something from the stonewaller. In...
by Randi Fredricks, Ph.D. | Dec 20, 2016 | Depression, Family Therapy, Marriage, Psychotherapy, Relationships |
A genogram, sometimes called a family map, is a pictorial display of a patient’s family relationships and medical history. It goes beyond a traditional family tree by allowing the user to visualize hereditary patterns and psychological factors that punctuate...
by Randi Fredricks, Ph.D. | Oct 16, 2016 | Anxiety, Depression, Marriage, Relationships |
Marriage counseling is a form of therapy that can help all types of couples in all different types of intimate relationships, whether they are heterosexual or homosexual, married or not. Unfortunately, most marriage counselors report that the majority of couples wait...
