Couples and Relationship Counseling

Couples treatment is useful whenever one or both partners are unhappy in the relationship. This therapy provides practical action-oriented steps in a safe and nurturing environment to improve the couple's communication and satisfaction in the relationship.

In the modern world we have very high expectations for our relationships. The problem is that many of us never learned the tools, either as individuals or as couples, needed to achieve such high standards.

One thing we can guarantee you is that we do not allow our couples to just continue fighting in the office. Our approaches are designed to get you on track again as quickly as possible.

Dr Schwarz is a Clinical Member of the American Association of Marriage and Family therapy Association.  He has been working with couples for 25 years.

The types of issues we work with include:

• Arguing
• Poor Conflict Resolution
• Intimacy
• Sexual differences and difficulties
• Money problems
• Lack of fun and Joy
• Affairs
• Parenting Difficulties
• In-Laws
• Step Families
• Healthy Separation

We are Licensed Mars & Venus Counseling Center. The Mars & Venus Approach helps a couple's love grow by acknowledging and honoring their gender based differences. These differences include :

• How men and women cope with stress
• Uses of Language and Non Verbal Communication
• Love Needs of Men and Women
• How men and women problem solve
• Brain differences
  

The approach teaches tools to communicate more effectively even during difficult times. Dr Schwarz and Helen Struckmann have both been personally trained by John Gray, author of Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus.

Bob Schwarz        John Gray        Helen Struckmann