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You can begin the onboarding process with Lee Freeman Counseling using the "Book a Session" button at the bottom of this page. Lee offers both in-person and virtual sessions to accommodate your needs.

During a therapy session at Lee Freeman Counseling, you can expect a compassionate and personalized approach. Sessions are designed to be a safe space where you can openly discuss your concerns and work collaboratively with Lee to achieve your mental health goals. You can expect to be heard and challenged, and you can expect Lee's commitment to collaborate with you to find solutions that work.

Lee Freeman Counseling uses primarily use Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), and Internal Family Systems (IFS). These approaches are designed to help you achieve both immediate goals and long-term growth, with an emphasis on collaboration and active participation in your therapeutic journey.

In general, no. Ethical guidelines and best practices discourage this because it creates a potential conflict of interest. Lee only works with one client in a particular system. In other words, if the couple is the client, Lee works toward the couple's shared goals and best interests. Similarly, if the husband is Lee's client and the client wants to do a joint session, Lee is often open to this, but the husband remains the client, which means Lee works on his behalf. All that being said, in some cases couples can actually gain more ground with occasional one-on-one sessions with Lee, particularly in highly explosive or contentious relationships. In such situations, the couple remains the client and joint sessions remain essential to the overall process. However, couples work is often deepened as the individuals pursue their own growth and healing, much of which is most effective through individual counseling rather than couples work. In fact, many couples struggle precisely because they are looking to their partner to provide healing that is actually their own internal/personal/spiritual work. Lee supports and recommends individual counseling for each member of a couple in addition to couples counseling, and he is glad to make referrals to trusted colleagues for this important work. Furthermore, he enjoys collaborating with other practitioners to coordinate and improve care; clients can sign ROIs to allow Lee to collaborate with other counselors.

The purpose of couples work is not to fix either person. Marriage counseling and couples counseling are not the best context to address an individual's trauma, addiction, anger, etc. -- that's more the domain of individual counseling. While couples counseling can be complimentary to that work and can even accelerate it, the purpose of couples counseling is to work on the relationship. We strive together to help each person feel heard, respected, and loved within the relationship, which of course often involves growing communication skills. We learn what works to grow, strengthen, and heal your bond. We work on repair after important wounds, which involves apology, forgiveness, and empathic responses. We cultivate fondness and positivity in the relationship without overlooking the issues so we can rebuild the reservoir of love that allows you to address issues. We work on conflict resolution, learning how to "fight" well on the same team and still get your needs met. We resist the temptation to argue about facts and grow our capacity to honor feelings. We practice peace and protect our own regulation so we can involve our whole brains in working on the relationship. As we practice these things, we deal in specifics more than generalities, looking at specific examples and learning what would work better instead so we can forge new, healthier paths.