YOU’VE PROBABLY TRIED A LOT OF THINGS ALREADY.
You’ve talked about it. You’ve promised to do things differently. You’ve read the books, listened to the podcasts, tried harder.
You may have even tried couples therapy.
And yet, somehow, you keep ending up back in the same place.
YOU DON’T NEED TO HAVE THE SAME FIGHT IN HERE.
Scotty is active in the room.
He’ll stop you. Ask questions. Back up when something important just happened. Stay with something when it would be easier to move on.
You’ll talk about what happened last Tuesday. You’ll also pay attention to what happens right there in the room — because sooner or later, the thing you came in to talk about usually shows up there too.
MAYBE YOU’RE FIGHTING ALL THE TIME.
Or maybe you hardly fight anymore.
You feel more like roommates. Sex has become difficult or disappeared. Parenting takes everything you have. Work gets whatever is left. There are things you stopped bringing up because you already know how the conversation will go.
Maybe something bigger happened.
An affair. A secret. A discovery. A confession. Something you can’t stop thinking about and don’t know whether you can forgive.
Or your marriage looks perfectly fine from the outside.
You just know what it feels like from the inside.
COUPLES THERAPY
You don’t have to wait until your marriage is falling apart to come in.
Couples therapy can give you a place to slow things down, understand what keeps happening between you and have conversations that have become difficult to have on your own.
Scotty works with married, engaged and committed couples in Orlando and throughout Central Florida.
COUPLES INTENSIVES
Fifty minutes can be a terrible amount of time.
You finally get somewhere important and the session is over.
A couples intensive gives you more time. Instead of stopping and coming back a week later, several hours can be set aside to work.
An intensive may be a good fit if something significant has happened in your relationship, weekly therapy has felt too slow, or you simply want more time to work without stopping every 50 minutes.
INFIDELITY, BETRAYAL & ADDICTION
Finding out about an affair can change everything in a matter of minutes.
So can discovering pornography, messages, hidden sexual behavior or things you had no idea were happening.
If that’s why you’re here, ordinary marriage advice probably isn’t what you’re looking for.
Scotty has extensive experience working with infidelity, sexual betrayal, compulsive sexual behavior and addiction, and with both partners after a disclosure or discovery.
MEET SCOTTY ALDERMAN
Scotty Alderman, MA, LMHC, CSAT is a licensed therapist who works with couples at every stage of relationship — dating, engaged, married, or somewhere in between.
He’s active in the room and doesn’t take sides. He pays close attention to what happens between partners when conversations go sideways, and helps each person understand what the other has been trying — successfully or not — to say.
A significant part of Scotty’s practice is working with couples after infidelity and other relationship injuries. He also has extensive experience with sexual addiction and problematic sexual behavior and is a Certified Sexual Addiction Therapist (CSAT). These issues sometimes overlap. Often, they don’t. The work should reflect the difference.
Scotty uses Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), one of the most extensively researched approaches to couples therapy.
He practices at Charis Counseling Center in Baldwin Park, Orlando.
Schedule an appointment, or book a FREE 15 minute phone consultation.
Call me at 407.894.5202 or send me an e-mail at scotty@chariscounselingcenter.com.
All communication is confidential.
