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Kristen R Qualls
About
Effective couples counseling is essential in helping couples heal from communication issues, conflict, parenting struggles, intimacy and desire issues, disconnection, infidelity/affairs, and trust violations. In the first session, I'll ask you what your concerns are, immediately start mapping out the problems, and then start giving feedback. Everyone deserves to understand, in plain language, what is wrong, what is causing the problem, and how to fix it. I give out actionable items to work on between sessions so you know exactly what to work on to improve your relationship.
I teach communication skills using methods from trusted leaders in the field such as John Gottman, Sue Johnson, and Murray Bowen. I have honed my methods and can quickly translate the research in the field so it is easy to understand and you can successfully use it. I can see the problems clearly in the very first session, and help you start seeing them as well.
I am skilled and gentle with managing infidelity, affairs, and trust violations. I help balance the guilt, shame, abandonment, and underlying pain of the person who stepped out of the relationship with accountability and healing, while helping the person who feels betrayed have a voice in their pain, grieve, heal, and restore trust. I will help you see what is underneath the affair and driving the disconnection in the first place. We work using a three step method: stop the affair, heal from the affair, prevent it from happening again.
I help parents who are drowning in the chaos of working, raising a family, and sacrificing one basic need after another just to get it all done in a day. We will work on understanding your needs, how to regain balance while prioritizing what is most important to you, and effectively implement behavioral changes that will help alleviate the stress, organize the chaos, and give you the time you need for yourselves, each other, and with your children.
I help blended families understand the inherent challenges in blending a family after a divorce. We will talk about the do's and don'ts, how to create boundaries and connections, find balance, and set accurate expectations for your situation. There is a lot that goes into blending a family. It's not easy but it can be so much easier with the proper help and guidance.
I am biased towards respect. I believe in helping people decide for themselves what the best course of action is for them, and have heard sad stories of “marriage” therapists telling clients what to do, or that their relationship is hopeless and to just get divorced. It is not the therapist’s job to tell couples what to do; the therapist’s role is to help couples figure out what is best for them after considering their needs and goals. I am a strong advocate of helping people repair relationships they want to save. Sometimes, people don’t know what they want, so I work with them until they decide.
Finally, some couples decide to end relationships. I will journey with you until you know exactly what you need. The goal becomes helping people separate or divorce with minimal harm to all involved, especially children.
Kristen R is also listed in Best Marriage Therapists in Rochester
Licensing & Certifications:
- Licensed
- License State: MI
- License Number: 4101006433, received
- Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist
Specialities:
- Anxiety
- Blended Families
- Breakup
- Codependency Relationships
- Commitment Issues
- Communication
- Depression
- Divorce
- Emotional Intelligence
- Family Conflict
- Family Of Origin Issues
- Fear
- Fertility
- First Responder
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Infertility
- Infidelity
- Intimacy
- LGBTQ+
- Life Purpose
- Life Transitions
- Marital and Premarital
- Men Issues
- Midlife Crisis
- Money And Finance
- Narcissistic Personality
- Parenting
- Perfectionism
- Phobias
- Postpartum Depression
- Posttraumatic Stress
- Pregnancy
- Relationship Issues
- Self Esteem
- Self-Care
- Self-Compassion
- Self-Criticism
- Self-Doubt
- Sensitivity To Criticism
- Sex
- Shame
- Stress Management
- Teen Therapy
- Trauma and PTSD
- Trust
- Women\'s Issues
- Worthlessness
Types of Therapy:
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
- Family Therapy
- Behavioral Therapy
- Couples Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Psychoeducation
- Structural Family Therapy
- Emotionally Focused Therapy
- Solution Focused Brief Therapy
- Internal Family Systems Therapy
- Marriage And Family Therapy
- Brief Therapy
- Systemic Therapy
Working With Marriages for:
- 14 Year(s) 5 Month(s)
Language(s) Spoken:
- English
