Making Counseling Effective In Your Marriage | Ep. 479
Awesome Marriage Podcast
Dr. Kim Kimberling
4.9 • 813 Ratings
🗓️ 17 August 2021
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Are you considering marriage counseling? Have you booked your first appointment and plan to go soon? Or have you tried counseling, but it just didn't work like you hoped it would? Whatever situation you are in, today's episode has some tips to help you make the most of it.
Just showing up to the appointment won't change your marriage. Today Dr. Kim and Christina share some tips that are not common knowledge about how to make counseling work for you and your marriage. Tune in and find out!
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the awesome marriage podcast, a place for honest conversations about marriage and practical advice on how to build an awesome marriage. |
| 0:10.1 | I am your co-host, Christina Dodson. |
| 0:12.2 | On the show will be our host, Dr. Kim Kimberling. |
| 0:15.0 | Dr. Kim is a marriage counselor and has been married for over 50 years. |
| 0:18.7 | His passion is to help you strengthen your most intimate |
| 0:21.9 | relationship. |
| 0:28.5 | Today we are looking at how to make counseling effective in your marriage. |
| 0:32.4 | You hear us talk about counseling a lot here at Awesome Marriage. |
| 0:36.0 | But if you're going to spend the time, money, |
| 0:38.1 | and energy going to marriage counseling, it's really important that you do what it takes to make |
| 0:42.9 | it effective. So that's what we're going to discuss today. If you are new to the show, |
| 0:47.0 | we drop a new episode every Tuesday. And on the last Tuesday of every month, it's a special |
| 0:51.8 | guest interview. Be sure to go ahead and hit subscribe |
| 0:54.5 | in whatever podcast app you're using so that you can tune in each and every week. So, Dr. Kim, |
| 1:00.2 | what does ineffective counseling look like? I think it would be if the therapy is not making a |
| 1:05.6 | difference. If you've gone and you have your hopes it's going to be better and it's not, |
| 1:10.5 | then I think it's ineffective. |
| 1:11.6 | But I think you always have to look at, |
| 1:13.8 | why is it ineffective? |
| 1:15.7 | Is it the counselor? |
| 1:16.9 | Or is that we're going or spend the money, |
| 1:19.7 | but we're not doing what the counselor asks us to do? |
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