Marriage Ministries
Pre-Marital Seminars
Marriage Counseling
PREPARE-ENRICH
Marriage Counseling
PREPARE-ENRICH
Couple Counseling
Wondering whether you're in the right relationship? Want to deepen a happy partnership? Thinking about making a big step together?
Doug Cater provides counseling for
- Couples considering marriage
- Couples planning marriage
- Couples adjusting to a new marriage
- Couples experiencing difficulties in their marriage (or relationship)
- Couples considering divorce
- Couples who want to make a good marriage even better
- Individuals who want to strengthen their marriage (but whose partners won't come with them)
"Doug provided us a safe environment, helping us to explore past and present deeply personal aspects of building a healthy relationship." - Lee and Bonnie
Doug is a Certified Imago Relationship Therapist
Imago is "a new way to love"! It can help you realize the relationship of your dreams!
Imago has discovered that "romantic love" usually comes to an end and is replaced by a "power struggle" (state of disillusionment) in which partners focus on each other's faults and get into a blaming, criticizing cyle. In this stage each is very disappointed with the relationship and wonders if they're with "the wrong person."
Imago helps couples get out of this pattern and into a healing process in which they consciously work to meet each other's needs and create a rewarding, loving relationship.
Imago was developed by Harville Hendrix and his wife Helen Hunt. Both had experienced divorces which they didn't want but couldn't seem to avoid. Together they discovered a process through which couples are helped to share feelings and beliefs, carefully listen to each other, and work toward mutual understanding and cooperation. Harville has written the best-selling books Getting the Love You Want and Keeping the Love You Find, and has appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show sixteen times.
Doug Cater also provides counseling for individuals and families. In cases of marital conflict, individuals whose partners decline to attend counseling sessions can often benefit from one-person therapy focused on improving the marriage relationship.
Imago is "a new way to love"! It can help you realize the relationship of your dreams!
Imago has discovered that "romantic love" usually comes to an end and is replaced by a "power struggle" (state of disillusionment) in which partners focus on each other's faults and get into a blaming, criticizing cyle. In this stage each is very disappointed with the relationship and wonders if they're with "the wrong person."
Imago helps couples get out of this pattern and into a healing process in which they consciously work to meet each other's needs and create a rewarding, loving relationship.
Imago was developed by Harville Hendrix and his wife Helen Hunt. Both had experienced divorces which they didn't want but couldn't seem to avoid. Together they discovered a process through which couples are helped to share feelings and beliefs, carefully listen to each other, and work toward mutual understanding and cooperation. Harville has written the best-selling books Getting the Love You Want and Keeping the Love You Find, and has appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show sixteen times.
Doug Cater also provides counseling for individuals and families. In cases of marital conflict, individuals whose partners decline to attend counseling sessions can often benefit from one-person therapy focused on improving the marriage relationship.
Couple Counseling Using PREPARE and ENRICH
Doug Cater is also available to administer PREPARE and ENRICH to couples and to counsel with them. The couple takes the inventory online or in the office, and Rev. Cater receives the computer report. He then goes over it carefully with the couple, noting strengths in the relationship and areas where growth is needed. He then helps the couple to discuss the growth areas and to plan ways to strengthen the relationship in these areas.
Sometimes couples decide it would not be wise to continue to make wedding plans after discussing their differences, attitudes, and beliefs in several areas. Most couples, however, proceed to work on understanding each other better and making changes which will make for happier and more rewarding relationships.
For more information on PREPARE and ENRICH, click here.
Doug Cater is also available to administer PREPARE and ENRICH to couples and to counsel with them. The couple takes the inventory online or in the office, and Rev. Cater receives the computer report. He then goes over it carefully with the couple, noting strengths in the relationship and areas where growth is needed. He then helps the couple to discuss the growth areas and to plan ways to strengthen the relationship in these areas.
Sometimes couples decide it would not be wise to continue to make wedding plans after discussing their differences, attitudes, and beliefs in several areas. Most couples, however, proceed to work on understanding each other better and making changes which will make for happier and more rewarding relationships.
For more information on PREPARE and ENRICH, click here.
Doug's counseling sessions usually run 85 minutes, which allows time to
get more deeply into the issues. 60 minute sessions are also available.
