I have never been a fan of marriage counselors or psychiatrists. 125 to 150 bucks an hour is a high price to pay for someone else's opinion.

I have also never been really clear on why their opinions should be considered "right" and mine wrong either.

Training, yes. A study of psychology and human behavior does give some counselors the "credential" to hang their "Ph.D shingle". Others, after having completed a mere 12 to 48 hours of life coach training, masquerade as relationship experts. Almost all of them lay claim to being the "world's leading expert on infidelity".

Seems to me that "life" would equate those 12 to 48 hours of training making us all qualified to "counsel".

By the way…how many marriage counselors do you know who are divorced?

I too, have studied some psychology. I have had extensive training in non-violent crisis intervention and methods of altering human behavior through the use of behavior modification techniques.

What's the one thing that I have learned? Somehow, life seldom plays out the way it does in a classroom scenario!

Perhaps that is why the article, Do Marriage Counselors Do More HARM Than Good? caught my eye. The author, Larry Bilotta makes a very strong case for "marriage education" rather than "marriage counseling".

I personally think he's on the right track. See what you think.


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