Hello,
As your colleagues in couples counseling, we’d like to share what we do with clients at Couples on the Brink. Our therapeutic model is innovative, effective, and easy to describe. And we would like to offer it to help you with your stuck couples –at no cost or risk to you.
Our mission is to help couples move through the stuck place they often find themselves at when they reach The Brink. We accomplish this in couples sessions of four hours or more. Our intensive model—which is strength-based and systemic—is highly successful. We treat The Brink as a point of opportunity, where couples can see clearly not only their issues but also everything that’s precious to them.
When clients reach the core issues that can save their marriage, we keep the session going and let them get on with the needed work. Clients at Couples on the Brink choose from a small selection of intensive programs. Each format offers practical strategies to resolve crucial issues and renew the foundations of the marriage. Our male/female co-therapy teams add depth and variety to the insights and interventions that give our clients hope, the feeling that they have a save-marriage strategy that will work for them.
Our model works specifically for couples on the verge of divorce. And after we accomplish our therapeutic goals with them, we don’t continue their conventional therapy afterward. We send our clients back to the therapists who referred them to us. This is why we invite you to refer your stuck marital cases to us. We help them only with their immediate needs at this critical juncture in their need for marriage help. Then they return to you for the ongoing care we don’t provide.
We are highly collaborative with our marriage counseling referral sources in the therapy community. We intend to be a resource to you. We can discuss our work in detail with you, and at times we invite colleagues to observe our work through the one-way mirror that our consulting team uses.
These posts will be dedicated to rethinking traditional assumptions about working with couples at risk of divorce. Here we’ll share our views of familiar working methods, and we invite you to join this conversation. We hope you enjoy this online discussion about intensive approaches to working with couples at The Brink.
Paul Maione, Ph.D., and Melissa Bridges, M.S.
Co-Directors, Couples on the Brink
