Expecting and New Parents

Becoming a parent is an exciting time.

Expecting your first baby or fourth? Or, you are currently in the process of Adopting or Fostering for the first time.

For most couples, this is a very exciting time in their relationship.

For some, the transition from being a couple to becoming parents can be terrifying, even when it seems like a Dream Come True!

With a little preparation prior to the new arrival, those terrifying thoughts can be eliminated.

Counseling helps keep that dream alive.

Counseling for Expecting and New Parents is effective for reducing stress.

Expecting parents learn to improve communication and develop deeper understanding of their changing roles.

The Gottman Method of Couples Counseling has been proven effective.

The Gottman Method is not a philosophical belief or parenting advice from your mother, grandmother, or great Aunts.

Rather, it is 40 years of scientific research that Dr. John Gottman (co-founder of The Gottman Institute) developed.

Using this method, you can expect to learn effective, proactive, and practical skills to – strengthen your friendship, increase affection and intimacy, work through conflict with more ease, maintain relationship satisfaction, and reduce hostility.

This work will help you create positive parent-baby interactions, utilize both parents’ strengths to improve quality involvement in baby’s life, reduce or minimize the severity of postpartum mood disorders, create co-parenting strategies, and improve communication, connection, and compromise.

“Gottman and other researchers observed that children benefit the most when parents themselves have a strong relationship,” whether the parents are living as a couple or living apart/co-parenting.

Is Couples Counseling right for you?

Yes, if you are expecting parents…

…looking to eliminate the stress of transitioning to parenthood.

…wishing to enhance an already “good” marriage or relationship.

…needing better conflict management tools.

…expecting a baby but are not in an intimate relationship.

Or perhaps, you are a couple or parents of children ages 0-5 years of age.

Finish the preparation.

You have completed the baby register and decorated the room.

You are anticipating the arrival and are expecting to be the best parents EVER!

Give your baby the best coming home present EVER: a strong healthy relationship between his/her parents.

Contact us at (609) 553-6439, so we can make that Dream Come True.