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Couples Therapy Sustaining a healthy and joyful relationship can be a daunting task at times. Outside pressures, trying to pay the bills, and work-related demands all may compete with family needs and expectations. Partners’ different ideas about marriage or baggage from the past can interfere with closeness. Open communication is at times more difficult than expected, especially when there is stress and tension in the relationship. Couples therapists at the Center devote significant time understanding interpersonal relationships of both traditional and non-traditional couples: the challenges they face and how relationships grow and change over time. We view therapy as a collaborative process where the couple helps define their difficulties as well as the goals they hope to achieve. We recognize and take into consideration the possible effects on the couple of their experiences and ideas about race, class, ethnicity, culture, spirituality, and gender. We also recognize that relationships can come to an end. We work with divorcing and separating couples to maintain workable relationships and constructive parenting through the process and beyond. SERVICES AND PROGRAMS Couples Therapy: Conjoint therapy is for couples at any stage of their relationship who are encountering difficulties which are compromising their effectiveness as partners. Sex Therapy: The goal of sex therapy is for couples to achieve gratifying intimacy and healthy sexual functioning across the life span. Mediation: Mediation offers a constructive alternative to the adversarial process when married or unmarried couples separate and need to develop agreements for parenting, property, and support. In mediation, an impartial third party assists the participants to negotiate a consensual and informed agreement. Mediators also work with couples to develop prenuptial agreements and to work out ongoing, post judgement parenting concerns. Affiliated Professionals: Brian Ashin, LMSW Fernando Colón, Ph.D. Kate Drinkwater, LMSW Douglas Ensor, Ph.D. Paul Estenson, Ph.D. Carrie Hatcher-Kay, Ph.D. Lori Lichtman, Psy.D. Ellen Barahal Taylor, Ph.D. Mary F. Whiteside, Ph.D. Ann Arbor Center for the Family 2395 Oak Valley Drive, Suite 100 Ann Arbor, Michigan 48104 (734) 995-5181 Map to Ann Arbor Center for the Family Send Email to Ann Arbor Center for the Family Site Design by Chris Wozniak Pages created and maintained using Arachnophilia Powered by Simple Solutions