Discernment Counseling

What is Discernment Counseling?

If you or your spouse are considering divorce but are not entirely sure that’s the best path and are in a tough spot, Discernment Counseling is for you.

Discernment Counseling provides a chance to slow down, take a breath, and look at your options for your marriage.

Discernment Counseling is a new way of helping couples who have different solutions to their relationship. One person is “leaning out” of the relationship, not sure that regular marriage counseling would help, while the other is “leaning in” – and wants a chance to rebuild the marriage.

Discernment Counseling has specific goals.

Discernment Counseling will help you decide whether to restore your marriage to health, move toward divorce, or take time out and decide later.

The goal is to gain clarity and confidence about your decision. Discernment Counseling allows you to acquire a deeper understanding of your relationship and its possibilities for the future.

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

I will treat each of you with compassion and respect no matter how you currently feel about your marriage. There are no bad guys and good guys.

Here’s how Discernment Counseling works.

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

Discernment counselors respect your reasons for divorce while trying to open up the possibility of restoring the marriage to health. This process emphasizes recognizing each person’s contributions to the problems and the possible solutions helpful in future relationships, even if this one ends.

Counseling can include as few as a single session up to a maximum of five sessions. The first session is usually two hours, and the subsequent sessions are one and a half hours.

Discernment Counseling is not the right choice for a couple if one spouse has already decided to divorce, if one spouse is coercing the other to participate, or if there is a danger of domestic violence.

Decide what’s best for both of you.

Divorce may be the right choice, but taking time to decide is the best option.

Discernment counseling provides objective support for you as you decide whether to stay in the relationship or divorce.

Contact me today by calling (912) 777-9842. Let’s work together to see what’s best for your relationship.