Often when people come seeking relationship advice in Portland marriage counseling, they want a quick fix. Some simple tips they can take home with them to make their problems better. Of course, many issues aren’t that easy to fix. They take time and require both partners to learn better communication skills. But there are a [...]

At my Portland marriage counseling practice, my clients often talk to me about the stress they feel around birthdays, anniversaries, and especially the holidays to buy gifts that their partner will love. Some even go so far as to say they are afraid a bad gift will cause relationship issues.
Sadly, they might not be too [...]

In-laws can be the cause a lot of relationship problems – especially for newlyweds who are also trying to learn how to live as a married couple for the first time. Perhaps your wife’s parents are always making cutting remarks or overriding the decisions you’ve made together as a couple. Or your husband’s mother is [...]

As a Portland relationship counselor, I’ve noticed that the recent high profile cases of sex addiction – David Duchovny, Jesse James, and Tiger Woods – have left people with more questions than answers about the disorder. Some falsely believe that simply having an affair means you are a sex addict, but that’s not the case.
Portland [...]

In a recent Portland marriage counselor blog, I wrote about how relationship education can help all of your relationships, not just your romantic ones. Relationship problems most often come from unrealistic expectations and a lack of understanding or communication between two people, and relationship education teaches you how to recognize this in your relationships and [...]

Relationship issues change with the times, but perhaps never as fast as they have in recent years. Like it or not, we now live in an age where “private lives” is an oxymoron. The second anything happens to most of us, it’s been posted, tweeted, tagged, or blogged about – if not by us, then [...]

As a Portland marriage counselor, I can tell you based on my experience that the first models we have for how relationships are supposed to work are our parents. If mom and dad have a loving, supportive relationship based on mutual trust, honest communication, and affection, we will have a healthier outlook on how a [...]

Saturday January 7th 2012
Lead by experienced Imago Therapist
Norene Gonsiewski
Start your relationship off on the right foot in 2012.  Join us for this fun, positive and useful 3 hour workshop.  Couples will have the opportunity to do exercises that will take the best from the year that has passed and focus with optimism and intention on [...]

 
 
 
 
 
Join Norene Gonsiewski, LCSW and Tim Higdon, LPC in this fun and eye opening
1 day workshop. The Money Habitudes workshop is designed to help you to engage in productive conversations about money and understand the habits and attitudes that influence your actions and decisions regarding money. This workshop is the winner of several national awards [...]

Title: Getting the Love You Want; Bend, OR
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Date: February 17th-19th
Description: Getting the Love You Want is a weekend specifically designed to help couples truly discover the joy of being together. You will learn how to:

Successfully express your own desires.
Get to the root of your problems and dissolve them.
Create [...]