Marriage Mediation vs. Marital Counseling

Marital counseling is performed by a mental health professional and involves therapeutic analysis and insights. While very useful to many couples at times during their marriage, often a couple finds that marital counseling does not produce the results they want, despite the skill of the marriage counselor or the integrity of the process.
 
Marital mediation is a practical method that relies on dispute resolution techniques. It is short-term and does not attempt to go deeply into family and personal issues. It is practical, and can often help the couple go forward in their marriage. The couple can address deeper issues, if they wish to, in the future.
 
Often, after marital mediation, deeper issues and conflicts start to resolve, almost by themselves. The couple is more accepting, and has a more realistic view of what marriage is. Marital mediation can be transformative for the couple.The benefit of marital mediation is not that it can or will solve everything, but that it can often help people move forward to the next step in their marriage.
 
If you are considering marital mediation, and would like to speak with a MCFM mediator, search our database for marriage mediators in your area.
 
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