Couples Counseling Couples counseling can help married and committed couples to establish their relationship on a stronger footing. It has been said that, “In relationship, we find out who we are.” Intimate relationships test us on many levels. Through relationship, we sustain the people we are most responsible for. We rely on intimate relationships for day-to-day support and they provide the foundation on which we build our personal future. Thus, strengthening an intimate relationship touches on many kinds of issues, ranging from the practical, to the emotional, to the spiritual. Building a relationship is a demanding task—one that involves dealing with both the problems that force themselves on our attention and those that may lie hidden, doing damage from beneath the surface. Building relationship involves our deepest hungers, our sharpest conflicts, and our highest aspirations. Co-director Martha Bramhall, head of the Asclepeion Center’s counseling services, is a highly experienced couples counselor. She uses the Images Relationship Therapy model as the basis of her couples work. She holds a degree in Social Work from the Catholic University of America and has had extensive post-graduate training in couples counseling, family therapy, Gestalt, and mind/body therapies. Martha’s specialty lies in combining Body Mind Healing techniques with the theory base and skills of traditional “talk” psychotherapy, while also bringing to the work an understanding of the spiritual growth dimensions of healing. BACK TO TOP