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Marlon Familton launched Bellevue Family Counseling, LLC in 2008 after graduating from Bastyr University (LIOS) with an MA in Applied Behavioral Science. He specializes in working with adults on relationship issues, driven by the belief that the desire to feel safe and secure in a loving relationship is one of our primary purposes in life. Marlon, author of Fix Your Partner in 10 Easy Steps or Less, supports couples who want to create a more happy and secure relationship as well as individuals working to overcome life's challenges, using the latest effective types of therapies for the best results.

Are you struggling with disagreements and fights that never seem to get resolved? I'll help you repair patterns that lead to frustration, defensiveness, and disconnection. I work collaboratively with couples to weave together a new relationship of trust, respect, and clarity of purpose. Together we can discover a path forward towards a nurturing, healthy relationship—one that rekindles the spark that brought you together in the first place. As a couples therapist, I’m honored to witness profound shifts in acceptance and connection, and an overall sense of well-being and health. I look forward to talking to you about your relationship. I offer a free 20-minute phone consultation.

Bob is certified in Emotionally Focused Therapy for couples and is a licensed counselor who has been working in the field of mental health and counseling for 29 years. He has devoted the last 15 to work with couples and enjoys this work very much. Please feel free to ring him if you would like to talk about how EFT may benefit you.

It takes courage to reach out for help if your relationship is suffering. The benefits of engaging in couple therapy can be rich and rewarding. Emotionally Focused Therapy works from the understanding that the quality of our connection to our life partner is essential to our sense of well-being. I work with couples to help identify negative patterns that have developed and to build and deepen connection and understanding between partners.

Please call me for a 20-minute phone consultation at no charge to see if we might work well together.

I believe we are all created for connection in relationship, and that all relationships have the potential to bring great joy and great struggle. I believe in the importance of the therapeutic relationship between us, and that addressing the concerns that bring you to therapy can be a process that brings healing, transformation, and growth. My approach to counseling varies but is primarily informed by attachment and a relational psychodynamic perspective. EFT is a novel adaptation of attachment theory that helps restore the bonds of connection in our most important relationship, the one we share with our significant other. My hope is to help each and every couple I meet with to experience a more fulfilling relationship based upon strengthening the bond between them.

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According to Sue Johnson, strong loving relationships are increasingly correlated with individual physical and psychological health. I support clients in discovering how they contribute to their relationship dynamic. Once they understand how they cocreate their dance, I help them explore new ways of managing their emotions in connection with each other.

My husband and I work as a team to help couples grow together. As former high-tech and legal professionals, we understand how work demands can affect relationships. As parents, we get how children are a source of both joy and stress. As an intercultural couple, we recognize the challenges in bridging different world views.

I work in partnership with people to identify ways problems have affected their lives—and strategize ways to help them regain control over their lives. I work collaboratively examining challenges/problems, particularly looking to uncover life experiences that contradict problems—contradictions that may provide ways for people to create preferred ways to live with those challenges.

Perhaps the best statement that reflects my philosophy of practice is from Michael White: "The problem is the problem; you are not the problem."

Counseling can help you get unstuck, set goals, reduce anxiety and depression, take action to feel better, and help you have more control of your life. With a compassionate and supportive approach, I help people find real solutions to important issues in life, work, and relationships. I help people identify negative emotions and limiting beliefs and replace them with healthy coping skills and positive strategies to change their lives.

Through integrating current research in neurobiology and attachment, I help couples acknowledge, respect, and understand each other better. I help couples break negative patterns that undermine their relationships and find real tools for improving their communication and connection. Education and understanding of each partner's emotional regulation is an important part of the process. Conflict is a normal part of couple communication. Every couple has both a positive and negative communication cycle. Conflict intimacy is learned and an important part of growing together. When couples understand how their emotions, needs, and behaviors affect each other in the communication cycle, they learn how to maintain secure attachment and foster positive relationships.

Every person, couple, and family struggles from time to time. Sometimes it is hard to get through these rough patches alone. Having a compassionate and supportive individual attending to your concerns provides a safe environment to create positive change. As a marriage and family therapist who uses emotionally focused therapy, I am curious about interactions that are keeping you stuck in the uncomfortable and enthusiastic about conversations that begin to create understanding and new patterns of connection.

I focus on many aspects of being human including relationship issues, depression, anxiety, grief/loss, life events, transitions and specialize in sexual health and intimacy.

I also utilize narrative therapy, trauma-focused therapy, tantric and mindfulness practices, and motivational interviewing. I am a Certified Integrated Intimacy Professional (CIIP).

You and your partner are struggling right now, and maybe have been for a long time. Life's transitions such as retirement, marriage, or birth of a new child can make staying connected with your partner quite difficult at times. Or other challenges in your relationship can leave you with difficulty trusting and feeling alone or like roommates. You both are tired of being stressed, tired of all the yelling, tired of being tired. Going to therapy can be scary, but you won't be alone. With me, you and your partner will cry, laugh, and work hard together!

My practice is in the Ballard neighborhood of Seattle at Meaningful Journey Counseling, and I focus on couples counseling and relationship issues for individuals. I hold a Master’s degree and a Doctorate in Clinical Psychology. My training in EFT and interpersonal process therapies influences my approach to working with both couples and individuals in a present-focused and validating manner.

Please contact me for a complimentary 15–20 minute phone consultation to see if we'd be a good fit.

You know the best thing you can give to your children is a healthy marriage, and yet getting along with your partner is one of the hardest things to do? I help couples feel close and connected in their relationship, so it's a win-win situation for everyone.

Just because you've been fighting like clockwork or living like roommates does not mean it has to stay that way. If you only have one shot at life, make it count.

Let's do this together. Give me a call today.

Please note that my practice is full, and I am no longer accepting new couples.

Since 1984, I have been a licensed psychologist practicing in the Pike Place Market area. I see individuals and couples for depression, anxiety, life transitions, and interpersonal problems.

My career changed about four years ago when I first heard Sue Johnson speak. She described the yearning that all people have to feel safely attached, to feel secure in the arms of the person they love. She described EFT and showed videos of the work. Her lecture changed my career. I have taken both levels of training and hope to become certified as an EFT therapist.

I have been challenged, excited and inspired by the EFT philosophy, practice and approach. It’s neither simplistic nor easy. But it is tender, nonjudgmental, and optimistic. When EFT works, important moments happen…and those moments can lead to lasting change.

I provide couples and individual Emotion Focused Therapy helping clients who are often dealing with anxiety, depression and struggling with relationships. I provide a free initial consultation and would be happy to see if I might be the right fit to work with you.

My therapy practice is 100% online, serving all of Washington state.

I also provide life coaching services to anyone online as well as in-person in Hingham, Massachusetts. The focus of my work is anything form business development services to executive, relationship and individual coaching. People often come to me looking for help with career transitions or improvements, improving relationships, dealing with workplace conflicts, job struggles, desiring to improve family interactions, developing their character, setting and achieving goals and executive or organizational development to name just a few areas.

Each of us is profoundly influenced by our love relationships and how our families impacted us. These relationships shape how we respond to the complexities and challenges of life. Negotiating difficulties can sometimes leave us feeling lonely, frustrated, overwhelmed, and in conflict with loved ones. I work with individuals, couples, and families to create and strengthen secure bonds in your significant relationships. Strong and secure relationships increase confidence, emotional security, and emotional well-being in the face of life's stressors.

My practice focus includes relational difficulties, depression, anxiety, grief/loss, PTSD, chronic illness, and more. In addition, I enjoy working with individuals, couples, and families who are impacted by ASD. Having completed advanced training in Emotionally Focused Therapy, I utilize EFT and an attachment framework to support my clients. I am currently pursuing ICEEFT certification as an EFT therapist.

I am passionate about using Emotionally Focused Therapy in my work with individuals, couples, and families because of how I have found it to help clients get in touch with and powerfully express the deeper feelings and needs behind what has kept them stuck with themselves and others.