Episodes
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To Hear Your Partner You Need To Stop Doing These 5 Things
There are 5 mistakes we make when we are trying to listen to our partner's feelings. Learn what you need to stop doing so you can start listening to your spouse.
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Advice on How To Find A Marriage Counselor
Not all therapist, doctors, or counselors all specialize with marriage counseling. And surprisingly, just because someone has a license as a Marriage and Family therapist, does not mean they know how to work with couples. So, today we explore what to look for when looking for a good marriage therapist.
Host: Dr. Kevin Skinner, LMFT and Brett R. Williams, LMFT
Email us: [email protected]
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Marriage Counseling is a Tool that Helps Any Relationship Grow
Today we are going to talk about how most people only see counseling as an option when all other options are exhausted. Most couples go to counseling when it almost too late. Let's talk about how it may be better to see counseling like taking a class or going to college and how it could benefit any couple at any stage of their relationship.
Host: Dr. Kevin Skinner LMFT, and Brett R. Williams, LMFT
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Learn How the Meaning You Bring Makes Your Relationship More Meaningful
Build a more meaningful relationship by understanding the meaning you and your partner brings to your relationship. The word for the year, 2021, is going to be "Meaning", because it is understanding the meaning someone brings to a situation that help you understand who they are and how they are feeling. It is also in being able to change what something means to you that you can change how you feel, think, and react to that situation.
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Christmas Conflicts Between Couples
Conflict and Christmas sees like two words that should never go together, but...they do too often. Holiday relationship problems are often the norm and they happen more than any of us like. Listen in as to why and what you can do to help end these unseasonal and unreasonable conflicts in your relationship.
Hosts: Dr. Kevin Skinner, LMFT and Brett R. Williams, LMFT
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Do You Understand What Makes You Feel Loved?
Love is what we seek in our relationships, today we are going to talk about how to create feelings of love for others, but also for ourselves. Think about it, wouldn't you like to know what it takes for your kids, your friends, and even your intimate to feel loved. And how important would it be for you to understand what you need to feel loved yourself. Well, today we are going to share what happens, what are people doing that creates a feeling of being loved.
Host: Dr. Kevin Skinner, LMFT and Brett R. Williams, LMFT
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Divorce Rate is Down- Even During the Pandemic
In this episode Dr. Skinner and Brett Williams discuss current census data that shows that the divorce rate is at a 50 year low. Hear the interesting results reported in a new study that came out of the Institute for Family Studies. https://ifstudies.org/blog/the-us-divorce-rate-has-hit-a-50-year-low?fbclid=IwAR11RXuL7R-ikurHZhL3WSIoIIKu7HGQ0dk40MxjPH_oPY2ZUI5i4qUHae4
Host: Dr. Kevin Skinner LMFT and Brett R. Williams LMFT
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Today's advice will focus on a simple tool to keep the conversation calm.
This is the second part of the conversation around relationship conflict. In today's post we share how balance positive and negative statements to keep your cool around painful communications.
Host: Dr. Kevin Skinner, LMFT and Brett R. Williams, LMFT
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End your arguments and learn how to talk about difficult issue.
In this podcast Dr. Skinner and Brett Williams will be sharing their advice on how to help you talk about the pain and problems that are facing your relationship.
Host: Dr. Kevin Skinner, LMFT and Brett R. Williams, LMFT
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It's a horrible cycle where shame is avoided by numbing out with porn, but the porn produces more shame and the pattern continues. You can't deal with any kind of porn problem without addressing the shame that it has created.
Please send us your thoughts and questions at [email protected]
Host: Dr. Kevin Skinner, LMFT and Brett R. Williams, LMFT
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Learn how to build intimacy in your relationship by learning the psychological elements needed
Building a connection with those you love is essential to any relationship, and in today's episode we are going to talk about psychological intimacy. This form of intimacy builds the foundation for all other forms of intimacy.
Hosts: Dr. Kevin Skinner LMFT and Brett R. Williams, LMFT
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How to Improve the Intimacy in Your Relationship (and we are NOT talking about sex)
Think of intimacy as closeness. The more intimate you are with someone the more closely you know them. The ultimate form of closeness would be physically, but there are many ways we need to build intimacy as well. This podcast will focus you on learning to understand some of the other areas of intimacy in a relationship.
Hosts: Dr. Kevin Skinner LMFT & Brett R. Williams, LMFT
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Bringing Love Back to Your Relationship
Dr. Skinner and Brett Williams want to help you learn 1) where the love went in your relationship, and 2) how to get the love back. Listen in and hear how you can begin to bring the love you once had back into your relationship.
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Advice on New Ways to Communicate
Because you can’t get to the deeper issue behind your conflicts you will loop and loop over the details of “who said what” or “who did what to who”, and nothing gets resolved. Well, if you’ve had that argument, today, I am sharing advice on how to stop fighting. I want to share some new ways to communicate, with a simple phrase, “Tell me more.”
Host: Dr. Kevin Skinner, LMFT and Brett R. Williams, LMFT
Please email us at [email protected]
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There is simple trust, which is simple to build, but then there is complicated trust, which is more of a struggle. In this podcast Dr. Kevin Skinner and Brett R. Williams share how to build trust in more complicated situations like betrayal.
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Relationship Builder Advice for Those Thinking of Getting Married
Are you about to "tie the knot"? Do you know anyone who's getting ready for marriage. This podcast will provide some valuable advice as to how to best be prepared by learning to have some honest and maybe hard conversations.
Contact us at [email protected]
Host: Dr. Kevin Skinner, LMFT
Brett R. Williams, LMFT
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Bringing Love Back To Your Relationship.
Learn about how to bring love back into your relationship by better understanding what is love and how to create it in your marriage, family, and even with friends.
Dr. Kevin Skinner, LMFT & Brett R. Williams, LMFT
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Learn How to Talk with Each Other
80% of couples coming into therapy are seeking ways to communicate with each other. What we fight about seems endless, but if we can learn effective ways to communicate then we can talk just about anything.
Learn from Dr. Kevin Skinner & Brett R. Williams.
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How To Set Boundaries and Why They Are Important.
Learn to set and keep good boundaries in your relationships. As Dr. Skinner will share, "Without boundaries then we only have chaos."
Hosts Dr. Kevin Skinner, LMFT & Brett R. Williams, LMFT
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Letting Go of the Burden of Resentment
Are you struggling with anger, frustration, hurt, and bitterness in your marriage. It maybe that those feelings are there for a reason, to protect you. Learn how the hear the deeper pain of your resentments. And by sharing your core beliefs you can free yourself and build your marriage.
Hosted by, Dr. Kevin Skinner and Brett R. Williams
Contact us at [email protected]
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