Discernment Counseling
Is your marriage in crisis? Are you at your breaking point? Is divorce on the table for your or your spouse?
We understand the difficulty of this decision and the uncertainty about the best path forward. Discernment Counseling is designed for you. It’s a chance to slowdown, take a breath, and look at the options for your marriage.
What is Discernment Counseling?
The goal of Discernment Counseling is for you and your
spouse to gain clarity and confidence about the direction of
your marriage, based on a deeper understanding of your
relationship and its possibilities for the future.
Discernment Counseling is a new way of helping couples
where one person is “leaning out” of the relationship—and not
sure that regular marriage counseling would help—and the
other is "leaning in”—that is, interested in rebuilding the
marriage.
Discernment Counseling is a short-term process (usually 1–5
sessions) that focuses not on fixing relationship problems, but
on gaining clarity about whether there is potential to work
through them. The goal is to help couples reach one of several
possible outcomes:
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to end the relationship, with better communication, clarity and process,
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to decide to make an all-out 6 month effort to rebuild it, or
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agree to stay in the same stuck place for now, but with a better clarity and self-understanding, and with the possibility of revisiting decision-making down the line.
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What is the process of Discernment Counseling and who will we be meeting with?
Discernment Counseling is specialized, short-term (1-5 sessions) counseling to help couples decide whether to end their relationship or seriously work on it.
How long is a typical session?
Sessions typically last 90 to 120 minutes.
Do we attend sessions together or separately?
You will come as a couple, but the most important work occurs during the individual conversations. Why? Because you are starting out in different places.
At Better Being Psychology Group, Dr. Krista Mancarella is our trained Discernment Counselor. She will help you decide whether to try to restore your marriage to health, move toward divorce, or take time and decide later. Dr. Krista provides compassionate care regardless of how you feel about your marriage. Your reasons for considering divorce are respected, while also exploring whether your relationship can be restored.
Discernment Counseling focuses on understanding each person’s role in the challenges and possible solutions—insights that remain valuable even if the relationship ends.
Reach out today to schedule your initial phone call with Dr. Krista.