by Randi Fredricks, Ph.D. | Jun 29, 2025 | Communication, Counseling, Couples Therapy, Marriage Counseling, Premarital Counseling, 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 Treatment, Couples Therapy, Depression, Happiness, Premarital Counseling, Psychotherapy
Humanistic therapy represents a powerful movement within modern psychotherapy that prioritizes personal growth, self-actualization, and the therapeutic relationship. Rooted in existential and phenomenological philosophy, this approach places the individual’s...
by Randi Fredricks, Ph.D. | Sep 11, 2020 | Anxiety Treatment, Dementia, Premarital Counseling, Relationships |
The damage left behind by verbal and emotional abuse can be just as bad, and in some cases even worse, than physical verbal abuse. There’s always a danger that emotional damage caused by verbal abuse will contributes to physical health conditions, anxiety, PTSD,...
by Randi Fredricks, Ph.D. | Jul 11, 2018 | Communication, Marriage Counseling, Premarital Counseling, 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. | Oct 16, 2016 | Anxiety Treatment, Depression, Marriage Counseling, Premarital Counseling, 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...
