Home

Counseling in Minnesota

Welcome to Segal Psychotherapy!

WMinnesota Therapistorking with couples, individuals and families to provide an opportunity for lasting change.

Working with all types of couples: married, engaged, living together, dating and same sex (lesbian and gay) to help them rebuild trust, enhance communication and resolve conflicts due to infidelity, porn and cybersex, addictions and other sexual problems. If your relationship is in a crisis, you do not need to feel overwhelmed by life’s problems any longer — help is here!

If painful past memories are still bothering you, they can be resolved with a proven technique called Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing (EMDR) in fewer sessions than traditional talk therapy.  You can be free of the shame, guilt, nightmares, anxiety and worry from the past.

The mission is to help regular people, just like you, with life’s problems. Even if your relationship or marriage is going pretty well, but gets stuck in the same cycle of arguing and you want help with your communication counseling can help you. The goal is to provide an opportunity for the kind of change that will let you lead a more fulfilling life.

Counseling and therapy can help you cope with life’s stresses and increase your awareness. It can also give you more energy, and, of course, make you feel better!

How Couples Counseling can help you. Everybody wants relationships of meaning and deep personal connection which is why love relationships can be so intense. A relationship can cause both the greatest joy and the deepest sorrow, making love relationships one of life’s most important experiences. That’s why counseling can be important, because it can help your relationship improve to one of a deeper connection.  During counseling, you will practice how to communicate directly and effectively with your partner. You will understand how to fight fairly so that you can be heard by your spouse or partner. You will learn to observe and understand your differences to move beyond them.  Couples counseling can help you learn new skills to communicate so that you and your partner or spouse can hear each other differently.

Types of issues Marriage Counseling can address: Marriage counseling can help with many of life’s stressors. You can learn to problem solve about many issues such as finances, communication and conflict resolution, parenting differences, help around the house, sexual problems and how to make decisions more easily. Marriage counseling can also help with grief or loss.

What about Affairs or Infidelity? Couples counseling can help people deal with the results of affairs, whether they were just emotional affairs, physical affairs or porn addiction, or cybersex. These problems can be addressed in marriage counseling by helping couples understand their feelings and the impact the affair or addiction had on the relationship. Couples counseling can help you  learn new ways of coping with the betrayal and loss of trust. Couples therapy will help you decide if whether you want to continue in the relationship. Marriage therapy can help people regain the lost trust and heal the hurt feelings. The past cannot be changed but you can learn how to make sense of what has happened to make positive choices about the future.

Do you feel lonely in your love relationship? Do you feel disconnected with your loved one?  Couples counseling can help you find the connection to your loved one that has been lost.

Whether it is for individual counseling or couple counseling, you will receive insight into your problems and tools to move beyond discouragement and frustration toward real happiness in life and in your relationships.

Going to see a counselor for help can be an intimidating experience. Here are answers to some frequently asked questions:

Providing a warm, nurturing and safe environment to help you sort out your problems. E-mail at segalpsychotherapy@gmail.com or call 612-875-6416.