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Psychotherapy

SPECIALIZATION
FORD WILLOUGHBY MA, LCPC

is a psychotherapist whose specialties include: Marriage Counseling, Adult Psychotherapy, Adolescent Psychotherapy.

Ford is a psychotherapist whose specialties include: Marriage Counseling, Adult Psychotherapy, Adolescent Psychotherapy.

As a successful entrepreneur, I have had personal experience with the quest for success, and the good that this pursuit can bring. I offer Life Coaching sessions to help clients achieve their monetary, social, and spiritual goals. You can make a lot of money and have a balanced life that includes rich and satisfying relationships, a great wealth of friends and a rewarding sense of purpose, which is the truest treasure of all.

MARRIAGE COUNSELING

I have a confession: I am a marriage counselor, and I’ve got some ideas about marriage, but I am still not sure what love is. Everyday I go to work and talk about love… this can be great fun and is really quite inspiring but sometimes its confounding. The word seems to take on subtle shifts in meaning with each couple I work with. My clients and I also talk about pain, betrayal, loss, and jealousy among a myriad emotions. It is through this dialogue that we come to understand what my couples need from one another; we come to understand what their marriage demands. This understanding leads us to a unique vision on which we can rebuild their relationship… a relationship where love can develop and flourish.

My work is largely informed by the Imago theory of Harville Hendrix and his wife Helen LaKelly-Hunt, co-authors of Getting The Love You Want.

I believe Dr. Hendrix is the pre-eminent marriage counselor of our time. His book and workbook are the foundation of my marriage counseling sessions. Simply put Drs Hendrix and Hunt believe that much of the discord in marriages arises when we touch on the unmet needs of our childhood. Children are insatiable. It is impossible for even the most loving, selfless of parents to meet a child’s insatiable demands. For the most part, we emerge from our childhood having learned lots of good values and life strategies, but we also emerge with unfulfilled needs that seek satisfaction in our relationships and in our marriage.

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IN MY SESSIONS
WE ILLUMINATE THESE CHILDHOOD “WOUNDS”

We learn strategies for healing them. Once we have uncovered the wounds our marriage counseling sessions focus on learning how to communicate these wounds to each other. We learn to listen in a way best characterized by the quote: “Seek first to understand, and then to be understood.”

This form of marriage counseling has a 25 year track record of great success.

I look forward to working with you and your spouse as we re-define your marriage and together we learn what love is.

TREATMENT AREAS

Ford has experience treating the following areas: Addiction Issues, Antisocial Personality Disorders, Anxiety Disorders, Assertiveness, Borderline Personality, Depression Treatment, Emotional Growth and Development, Family Systems, Gay and Lesbian Issues, Diversity Training, Communications Trainning, Life Management Issues, Low Self-Esteem, Manic-Depressive Illness, Men’s Issues, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders, Peak Performance, Performance Enhancement, Team Building, Personality Disorders, Procrastination, PTSD, Relationship Issues, Stress, Forgivness Related Issues, and Women’s Issues.

TREATMENT MODALITIES

Ford provides 12-Step Programs, Harm-Reduction Counseling, Career Counseling, Experiential Learning, Client-Centered Psychotherapy, Coaching, Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy, Existential Psychotherapy, Family Therapy, Individual Psychotherapy, Marriage Counseling, Mediation, Parent Training, School Consultation, School Intervention, and Spiritual Counseling. He works with Children, Adolescents, Adults, Couples, and Families, School Sytems, Hospitals, and Corporations.

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