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A Model for Marriage Counseling AND Old Beliefs vs. New Beliefs (this set for exchanged life / grace life counselors only)
Many of you have expressed much interest in having guidelines for exchanged life marriage counseling. Some of you attended the AELM member meeting in May and learned of my new spiral bound 132 page resource for Exchanged Life Counselors who are interested in doing marriage counseling. A Model for Marriage Counseling should be used as a set with the Old Beliefs vs New Beliefs booklet and with my book, Marriage! The Journey.
This new reference gives hints, suggestions and techniques for counseling couples. Many topics are addressed, including the question, "Why should we see both spouses together?" Special questions are provided to lead each spouse to "own" his part of the problem as he/she identifies False Beliefs about God, Self and about how three categories of needs are to be met. Some powerful couple interactions are described such as each spouse highlighting his/her False Beliefs and the contrasting Scriptural Truths and then giving examples to the mate of how those False Beliefs have been lived out in the marriage. Another powerful technique: each spouse confessing his/her faults to the other and surrendering to God in the context of the spousal relationship. The booklet describes another awesome time when each mate writes a new covenant to be brought and expressed in the session. Reasons for following a "Counseling Process" are explained as well as the impact of the couple relationship on the Family System. There are resources for counseling couples with step-families, addictions, codependency issues, abuse, Pursuer-Distancer dynamics , etc. plus how to Renew the Mind and how Christ-as-Life is to be appropriated in the marriage.
