The Marriage Center has Scientifically Proven Methods

to help your marriage heal, grow, and thrive. With The Marriage Center’s approach to marriage counseling, 70-75% of couples move from distress to recovery and approximately 90% show significant improvements.

Affair Recovery

Putting the pieces together after an affair is both painful and complicated, but hope and healing are possible.

Conflict, Kids, Money, etc.

Gridlock and conflict can take on a life of its own in marriage, but there is a way out of the crazy cycle of constant fighting.

Communication Breakdown

Tired of feeling unheard? Learn how to connect with each other through effective communication.

Emotionally Disconnected

Feeling disconnected? Life has many ways of pulling us apart. Learn how to turn toward each other as challenges arise.

Diminished Sexual Intimacy

Dissatisfaction with sexual intimacy can be both a cause and an effect of disconnection in the relationship. Learn how to rediscover your spark.

Additional Issues

Step Parenting, Premarital Counseling, Working On Your Marriage Alone, In-Laws, Anger, Sexual Addiction, Mental Health, Trauma, Brainspotting

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PTSD/Trauma

Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a mental and behavioral disorder that can develop because of exposure to a traumatic event, such assexual assault, warfare, traffic collisions, child abuse, domestic violence, or other threats on a person’s life. Symptoms may include disturbing thoughts, feelings, or dreams related to the events, mental or physical distress to trauma-related cues, attempts to avoid trauma-related cues, alterations in the way a person thinks and feels, and an increase in the fight-or-flight response.

Missy can provide a PTSD diagnosis with the Clinician-Administered PTSD Scale for DSM-5 (CAPS-5). She also is trained in Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT) and Prolonged Exposure (PE) which are evidence-based treatments for PTSD.

“Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT) is one specific type of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. It is a 12-session psychotherapy for PTSD. CPT teaches you how to evaluate and change the upsetting thoughts you have had since your trauma. By changing your thoughts, you can change how you feel.”

For more information go to: https://www.ptsd.va.gov/understand_tx/cognitive_processing.asp

“PE teaches you to gradually approach trauma-related memories, feelings, and situations that you have been avoiding since your trauma. By confronting these challenges, you can actually decrease your PTSD symptoms.”

For more information go to: https://www.ptsd.va.gov/understand_tx/prolonged_exposure.asp

OCD

Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) is a mental health disorder that affects people of all ages and walks of life, and occurs when a person gets caught in a cycle of obsessions and compulsions. Obsessions are unwanted, intrusive thoughts, images, or urges that trigger intensely distressing feelings. Compulsions are behaviors an individual engages in to attempt to get rid of the obsessions and/or decrease distress.

The most effective treatments are a type of CBT called Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP), which has the strongest evidence supporting its use in the treatment of OCD, and/or a class of medications called serotonin reuptake inhibitors, or SRIs.

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