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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The counselor tries to first learn about both of you individually - family marriage history, your relationships, etc.  Then together asks about how you met, what attracted you to each other, current conflicts.  With this base they delve into how you feel about current issues and how you communicate.  At least in my case, the counselor worked on how we reacted when we had disagreements in terms of the ability to compromise.[/quote]

That sounds about right.  I had an unfortunate experience that the bickering would start up in counseling and basically the counselor was being paid to watch us fight.  Nothing got resolved.  We ended up worse.  Probably just a bad counselor, but I was shocked that he (the counselor) didn't step in or teach us strategies or give us assignments to break out of what was destructive circular bickering. No insight whatsoever.  I didn't get anything out of it.  He just listened and asked background/history questions the whole time.  I wish I could have gotten my money back, it was expensive and not in network.

As a matter of fact, I wish I could have reported him, because the care seemed so substandard.  This continued for about eight session until I pulled the plug.  Does that sound strange to anyone else?  I mean I understand a low key approach, but this person gave no direction.  wTF?[/quote]

Same here. Kept focusing on background. [/quote]

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