If you or your spouse are considering divorce but are not completely sure that’s the best path, you are in a tough spot. Discernment Counseling is designed for you. It’s a chance to slow down, take a breath, and look at your options for your marriage. The goal is for you to gain clarity and confidence about a direction, based on a deeper understanding of your relationship and its possibilities for the future.

• Discernment Counseling is a new way of helping couples where one person is “leaning out” of the relationship—and not sure that regular marriage counseling would help--and the other is "leaning in”—that is, interested in rebuilding the marriage.

• Designed to provide you with more clarity, understanding, and confidence in your decision to try to restore your marriage to health, move toward divorce, or take a time out and decide later.

• The goal is not to solve your marital problems but to see if they are solvable.

• You will come in as a couple but the most important work occurs in the one-to-one conversations with me. Why? Because you are starting out in different places.

• The sessions are designed to emphasize the importance of each of you seeing your own contributions to the problems and the possible solutions. This will be useful in future relationships even if this one ends.
  
  Number of Sessions: One to a maximum of five counseling sessions. The first session is usually two hours and the subsequent are 1.5 or 2 hours.