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What exactly is not working when a relationship is struggling? [Part 1]
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Stephanie Cook
Stephanie Cook, LCSW, is an expert relationship counselor with 17 years of clinical experience and the first certified Gottman Couples Therapist in the state of Georgia. She has been teaching as a certified Gottman Seven Principles Program Educator for seven years and is the founder and Executive Director of Couples Counseling ATL, the only Gottman method couples therapy center in the Southeast, with 7 full-time couples therapists serving couples 7 days per week.
She has been intensively trained in every offered training in the Gottman Couples Therapy Method and Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT) as well as the additional Gottman Method Trainings for Couples regarding Addiction Recovery, Infidelity, Trauma/PTSD, and Domestic Violence. She has also been trained in the PREPARE-ENRICH model of premarital counseling as well as the Discernment Method of counseling couples on the brink of divorce or separation.
Stephanie lives in Atlanta with her family, including her amazing husband and their three energetic young sons. She enjoys karaoke parties with her neighborhood friends in Grant Park, watching stand-up and improvisational comedy, family bike rides on her souped-up electric radwagon, which her husband calls "her hog", dancing, and general banter and philosophizing on the porch with her husband and friends. Check out more of Stephanie's educational videos here:
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Get the science-backed techniques from an elite therapist with 20+ years helping couples step back from divorce and break the fight-apologize-repeat cycle when communication fails.
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