Relationship Matters
How To Stop Your Marriage From Falling Apart
In my latest video, I talk about how your relationship can be steady and strong as you weather the storm of COVID-19. I provide tools and insights that will support you in bringing your best self to the challenges that quarantine and stay-at-home orders present.
Will My Insurance Cover Couples Therapy?
Yes, now more than ever, your insurance will cover couples therapy, and you should make good use of it. Relationships can be hard even under the best of circumstances. But with the crisis of COVID-19, many couples are feeling hit from all directions. There is financial stress, parenting challenges, fear of the unknown, and few resources to recharge.
Do It Yourself Couples Therapy – A Dream Within a Conflict
Research shows that the best way to keep yourself and your family healthy is to prioritize supporting the well being of your relationship(s).
Co-Parenting During Covid-19 – A Perfect Storm, Part 1
For parents, it’s stressful, navigating a flood of challenges, as Covid-19 promises to come in turn to each of our communities. For separated or divorced co-parents, the challenges of “social distancing” are compounded with different social-emotional layers than our partnered friends face. And we feel that difference.
Keeping the Faith: For Christian Couples Trying to Discern if Couples Counseling is the right choice
Couples seek marriage counseling for many reasons. Strained communication, unresolved conflict, breaches in trust, and dispassionate sex lives are just a sampling. Whatever the motivation, couples therapy is a courageous choice; one that could be the most eye-opening and life-changing journey yet.
Couples Counseling Offered for Documentary About Marriage and Infidelity
Recovering From an Affair? A Rare Opportunity:
NCCT Director, Kerry Lusignan is offering a free, two-day private retreat at our center in Northampton, MA. To ensure quality of care, Kerry will also be offering a complimentary three-hour follow up intensive 4-8 weeks after the retreat.
COVID-19 An Open Letter to our NCCT Clients and Community
As anxiety becomes heightened around the COVID-19 related illness and the implications for travel and being in public places intensify, we want to share some adjustments and recommendations we are making at the Northampton Center for Couples Therapy to support you.
To the Brave and Brokenhearted – Happy Valentines Day
It’s 9 am on Valentine’s morning, and I’m sipping tea and caught in a quandary. I’m feeling the pressure to say something meaningful or witty, wise, and kind, and on this day, it ought to be about love.
The Daring Way – A Message From Our Director
After a full year of training, studying, consultation, and implementation, I am thrilled to announce that I am officially a Certified Daring Way Facilitator (CDWF).
The Long Shadow of Couples Therapy in the Age of Trump
As for the impact of traditional gender roles on couples, on society—as for conversations about patriarchy and its effects—psychotherapists seemed largely to have lost interest.
Sex Therapist
As a Sex Therapist providing care to couples, you will deliver direct clinical services to clients and have the unique opportunity to offer trainings and workshops, supervision, and other rewarding services as an expert in the field. This role also has freedom to be a part or full-time position.
When To Call It Quits On Your Relationship
If you are struggling with knowing how to proceed in your marriage, there are beacons along the way to help you discern where your relationship falls in regards to hope, potential, or crisis.
Exciting News: Gottman’s Top 10!
We wanted to take a moment and share some exciting news with you. This week, The Gottman Institute featured NCCT’s own Kerry Lusignan in their Top 10 Gottman Relationship Blog Posts of 2019.
To couples who risk love in the New Year
As we near the end of the holiday season and another year fades into a sea of memories, gratitude, regrets, and dismay, it’s understandable to reflect on our relationships. To ponder what has worked and what has not. To look back at previous years and experience a pang of nostalgia or longing.
The Art of Marathon Therapy
Kerry Lusignan was the featured guest on The Couples Therapist Couch, a podcast by Licensed Marriage and Family therapist, Shane Birkel, that has showcased the likes of Stan Tatkin, George Faller and Harville Hendrix.