What is Discernment Counseling?
Discernment counseling is a short-term therapy (five sessions or fewer) designed to help couples on the brink of divorce gain clarity and confidence about deciding on a direction for their marriage.
Couples decide whether they’d like to stay in the marriage as-is, pursue a divorce, or reconcile and repair the relationship.
What makes Discernment counseling powerful is that it meets spouses where they are.
This form of counseling honors the fact that one spouse is “leaning out” or unsure of the marriage while the other spouse is “leaning in” or wanting to make the marriage work.
Couples openly explore their problems.
- Discernment counseling lasts up to five sessions. At the end of every session, the couple decides whether they’d like to return for the next session.
- In each session, the counselor meets with the couple for about 45 minutes. Then, each partner meets individually with the counselor for about 30 minutes.
- Most couples find the format of both conjoint and individual sessions quite relieving and useful because it allows them to bring up issues together and discuss how they feel about them.
- Individually, they explore how they contributed to the problem and what they need to correct the problem.
Many factors lead couples to consider divorce.
Nobody gets married hoping to be divorced one day.
Unfortunately, people change. When hardships occur, many couples find themselves faced with deciding if divorce is the next step for them.
The reasons couples consider divorce may be as simple as personality conflicts that seem irreconcilable to cases of abuse.
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