Roseville Couples Counseling
James Christensen LMFT
License # 142990
Your relationship needs help:
You want communication, but you get conflict.
You want connection, but you get contempt.
You want intimacy, but you get indifference.
Things can be so much better:
Improve communication
Feel heard and understood
Get more connection
Restore intimacy
Pricing:
$250 per session
Your First Session is Free
I don’t take insurance
Frequency
Come once a week, once a month, or just once. There’s no commitment, and you have nothing to lose.
Your First Session is Free
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How Couples Therapy Saved My Marriage
Molly and I got married two days after I graduated from the Air Force Academy. Full of hope for our future, we packed up our first U-Haul and headed to pilot training.
Military life was hard on our marriage. We moved five times in five years, and we seemed to drift further apart every time.
We finally started couples therapy after my first military deployment. We worked with the best couples therapist we could find, but nothing changed. We didn’t communicate well, and we were still drifting apart. But we are stubborn, and we didn’t give up.
After five frustrating years of bad therapy, we finally got lucky when we started working with a Crucible Therapist.
Crucible Therapy was nothing like what we had been doing. Our therapist challenged us constantly, pointing out exactly what we were doing wrong, and helping us fix it right then and there. She was kind and compassionate, but also blunt and persistent. It was a different kind of couples therapy.
I retired from the Air Force to become a Crucible Therapist, and Molly soon joined me. Now we help other couples the way our therapist helped us.
Crucible Therapy saved my marriage, and it just might save yours.
What is Crucible Therapy?
Dr. David Schnarch (pictured here) developed Crucible Therapy to help couples improve communication, resolve conflict, and overcome intimacy challenges.
In Crucible Therapy, personal growth is the key to relationship improvement. You will learn to feel more powerful and safe in your relationship. You will learn to communicate, rebuild trust, and handle conflict.
Crucible Therapy cuts straight to the root of relationship distress. We talk about the foundational issues that keep couples from enjoying lifelong love.
If you have already tried other kinds of couples therapy without success, I hope you will give Crucible Therapy a chance.
Crucible therapy saved my marriage, and it just might save yours.
Services
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Do you want more connection in your relationship? Do you want to feel like you’re on the same page again?
Couples therapy can help you feel more peace, more passion, and less stress in your relationship. Improve communication, stop arguing, and learn how to resolve conflict in a more effective way.
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Create a solid foundation for your marriage. Improve communication, resolve resentment, and learn skills that will help you build a lifetime of love and caring. Click here to learn more about premarital therapy
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“Love one another” is easier said than done. Come learn how to fill your home with Christlike love.
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I offer couples therapy for communication issues in Roseville, California. Communication is the key to healing your relationship. Come learn how to have calm, collaborative conversations about even the most difficult topics.
Click here to learn more about Communication Therapy for Couples
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I offer couples therapy for sex and intimacy issues in Roseville, CA. Sexual problems are present in most long-term relationships. The most common concern is a difference in sexual desire, where one partner cares more about sex than the other. I can help you use this difference in desire to create a deeper, more satisfying sexual relationship. Learn more
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Couples Therapy for Affair Recovery and Infidelity in Roseville, CA:
The person you trusted most, the one you shared your life with, has betrayed you in the most intimate way. You feel foolish for not seeing the signs earlier. You’re questioning every moment of your relationship, wondering if any of it was real. You want to move forward, but you don’t even know where to start.
Emotional affairs can be just as damaging as physical affairs because they create a breach of trust and cause both partners t reconsider their commitment to the relationship.
If your relationship has been impacted by infidelity, click here to learn more about what you can do to make things better.
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From your very first session, I will help you see and change things that you are doing that are contributing to problems in your relationship.
I will help you bring more kindness, compassion, and courage into your relationship. I will help you feel more powerful, more in-control, more safe, and more secure.
During our first session together, I will give you communication tools and tips that will help you have more productive conversations with your partner.
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Most couples see significant improvement in six sessions or less. There is no commitment and you are welcome to stop attending couples therapy at any time. During our first session, we will talk about what you are hoping to change in your relationship and how long it might take to make those changes.
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We will focus on changing behavioral patterns that are ruining your relationship. You don't have to talk about your childhood, but it does tend to make things go more quickly if you're willing to take a look at what you experienced as a child.
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I'm more blunt, bold, and direct than most relationship therapists.
I only work with couples, and I attend several weeks of in-person couples therapy training every year. I have helped hundreds of couples improve their relationships.
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Almost all of my clients are couples, but I also work with individuals and families. I am trained in EMDR and accelerated resolution therapy for treating trauma, and I specialize in working with law enforcement officers and the military community.
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Yes, almost all of my couples work with me in my Roseville, CA office. I also offer relationship coaching worldwide.
FAQ
A Different Kind of Couples Therapy
There’s no lengthy assessment period. We will get right to work during your first session.
Couples therapy is what I do. I work with hundreds of couples every year in my Roseville office.
I follow a two-step process: first, I figure out what is causing problems in your relationship. Second, I help you fix it.
My wife and I have been married for 24 years. We used to have a bad marriage, and now we have a good marriage.
Come to therapy once a week, once a month, or just once. There's no commitment and you have nothing to lose.