Is This For You?
People seek my psychotherapy services for a variety of reasons. The arenas where I work most effectively are the ones that deal with relationship and sexual issues, as well as a wide range of troubling life situations. Here is a sampling of various situations where counseling helps most people. Scan this page to see if any of the following scenarios and outcomes would be relevant for you.
Counseling can help you:
- WITH YOUR MARRIAGE OR RELATIONSHIPS
- IMPROVE YOUR SEXUAL EXPERIENCE
- PREPARE FOR YOUR MARRIAGE
- MANAGE LIFE'S DIFFICULTIES
Counseling can help you with your MARRIAGE OR RELATIONSHIPS:
- Learn better communication skills
- Restore trust, respect, and friendship
- Invigorate your sex life and deepen your intimacy
- Open up your conversations
- Learn how to fight fairly and reach resolution
- Understand how core personality differences impact your connections
- Integrate the time demands of family, career, and self
- Balance the WE and ME needs in a partnership
- Rebuild your marriage after an affair
- Find compromise and understanding in financial differences
- Align your parenting styles
- Find support through an infertility process
- Work through family of origin, extended family and step-family issues
- Find freedom inside commitment
- Recover from a divorce or death of a partner
- Enliven your Spiritual connection
Individuals and couples who come to see me may be seeking improvements in a basically positive relationship, or may have very serious concerns about their future together. Relationship-oriented therapy ranges from: premarital counseling and marriage preparation; to enhancement or revitalization of a basically healthy connection; to helping couples know if the marriage can be saved, or if it is time to go.
Therapy can be invaluable when a marriage is in trouble and can help a couple determine if there is still love buried under all of the pain. By examining the dysfunctional systemic patterns that a couple has cultivated for years, and gaining an expanded awareness, greater clarity, and perhaps most importantly a heart that is open to true compassion, a couple can know with certainty whether they want to commit to doing the inner and outer work of forging a new relationship with each other, or if the marriage is truly over.
Finally, therapy serves the couple who has chosen to divorce. Counseling can help to resolve their unfinished business so that they are in a better position to move on with their lives. And when they need to continue some form of connection, as in the parenting of children or a shared business, counseling can provide the means to build that bridge into their new dynamics together.
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Counseling can help you improve your SEXUAL EXPERIENCE:
- Remove the resentments and obstacles blocking your heart's longing
for a passionate connection; - Increase your potential for reaching and sustaining orgasm;
- Find common ground with your partner in terms of frequency, timing, and style;
- Learn how to let your partner know exactly what you want;
- Find balance in who initiates;
- Overcome performance anxieties that lead to sexual dysfunction;
- Work through the power struggles that have landed in your bedroom;
- Learn how to manage significant transitional issues: pregnancy
and a new baby; illness or injury; menopause and aging; - Find ways to revision your sexuality and find satisfaction in your elder years;
- Open your sexual repertoire to new possibilities; and
- Fall in love with your partner all over again.
People come to me for assistance with numerous concerns about sexuality. I provide assessment, educational information, and coaching to help them find a healthier relationship to whatever difficulty they are facing and often can guide them through and beyond the barriers to sexual fulfillment. Counseling is a safe and confidential space to explore your fears and desires, and to expand your sexual repertoire. I work with people who have a wide array of sexual orientations and preferences.
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Counseling can help you PREPARE FOR YOUR MARRIAGE:
- Learn the essential qualities necessary for a healthy relationship;
- Discover ways to improve your communication skills and deepen your intimacy;
- Gather tools for managing conflicts and dealing with life's tumultuous passages;
- Learn how your core personality differences can actually enhance your connection;
- Work through the basic issues most couples face: money, sex, household tasks, parenting styles, extended families;
- Discover how your Marriage Vows create a foundation for your marriage; and
- Learn the secrets of a long-term, happy and passionate marriage.
A little investment of time, money, and energy at the start of your marriage can give you huge dividends in the long run. Building a strong foundation is essential for a marriage that can remain healthy and strong, no matter what life throws at you. I offer a Premarital Tool Kit for couples who are about to marry and for couples who are in the early years of their relationship or marriage. Click on A PREMARITAL TOOL KIT for more information.
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Individual Counseling can help you MANAGE LIFE'S DIFFICULTIES:
- Move through major life transitions with grace
- Work through grief and loss
- Establish more intimate and satisfying relationships
- Feel validated if your lifestyle choice is that of a solo journey
- Define and achieve career goals
- Find inner resources for ongoing care-giving challenges
- Manage depression and anxiety
- Overcome self-defeating behaviors
- Recover from addictions
- Build self-confidence, enhance self-esteem
- Become more assertive
- Overcome social phobias and shyness
- Uncover the limiting belief systems that hold you back
- Learn to trust your own inner intuition and wisdom
- Find your voice
- Courageously face end of life issues
Working with me gives you the opportunity to see your problems in a new light and gain a clearer perspective on yourself and your relationships. Together, we can help you explore your issues, confront your fears, heal your wounded places, and find the courage to speak your truth. Seeking help is not a sign of weakness. In fact, some people go through a healing crisis and actually feel worse before feeling better. It takes tremendous strength and courage to confront those dysfunctional parts of yourself and your life that are holding you prisoner, to tap into the inner determination and wisdom that will set you free, and to develop new life strategies that will carry you into a healthier, more satisfying future.
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What I Would Need From You
You now have some ideas about those situations where I have been able to help others. The next important piece in this process involves the participation and commitment that I would need from you as my client.
The following resonates with my most successful clients…
You are:
- Motivated towards change;
- Committed to making time to do the work;
- Ready to financially invest in your future;
- Willing to learn new things;
- Ready to release what no longer serves you;
- Able and willing to step outside of your comfort zone
- Willing to witness your attitudes and behaviors from a new perspective;
- Able to take responsibility for your role in the situation; and
- Committed to long term solutions.
I welcome all races, ethnic groups, religious and sexual orientations
"After many months of searching, my husband and I found Lynne Foote. Here are a few of the thoughts we voiced after each session with her:
Present - completely.
Thoughtful - with each detail.
Compassionate - always.
Professional - without a doubt.
Humorous - thankfully so!!!!" -P&B
NEXT STEP
Now that you have some information about the people who I work with, the kinds of concerns I help them resolve, and what clients need to do to ensure progress, click here to learn more about HOW I WORK. Or for some practical suggestions on what changes you can begin now, click on ARTICLES.
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