Springfield Marriage and Family Institute, LLC

Counseling, or to seek counsel, is to look for someone who has a knowledge you need. I'll bet you've already seen a counselor before! No? If we want to drive a car, we go to an instructor. When the car breaks down, we search for a mechanic. If we play ball, we have a coach. All provide counsel. When life gets challenging or we feel overwhelmed, we need someone to join us where we are, be there beside us in a non-condescending way to provide guidance and direction, for a healthier more productive life. It's always the right choice to better yourself.

All of our full-time counselors are Licensed Professional Counselors. Missouri Licensed Professional Counselors have earned either a Master's or Doctorate degree in counseling, marriage and family therapy, psychology or related discipline according to the requirements of Missouri state statutes. They have passed a national licensing examination as well as completed a minimum of two years supervised experience, consisting of 3,000 hours of clinical counseling experience including 200 supervised hours. LPC's are qualified and licensed to work with individuals, couples and / or families in counseling, including administering and profiling psychological, personality, and family assessments within the boundaries of his/her competence, based upon education, training, and experience.

We provide counseling for:

Depression is described as a dark cloud hanging over a person, a heavy coat that weighs you down, feelings of complete hopelessness and helplessness, and all the energy being drained out of your body. More women than men seek help for depression, but anyone, of any age, is susceptible. There is hope and help.

Anxiety comes out of the blue. It could be a stressful situation you are in currently, or just life in general. The dread and panic tightens up in your chest and across your shoulders with an overwhelming feeling of fear and impending doom. At times, you may feel like your heart is going to pound out of your chest. Other times, you are sweating profusely and feel like you are going to die. It lasts about twenty minutes and then subsides. You are not crazy.

Stress: Those unrelenting demands at work and home, disappointment and rejection in relationships, loss and grief, physical pain, not enough money to the pay bills, and the overall feeling that everything around you has more control over your life than you do. You can get to the end of your rope and be out of rope!! What do you do?

Grief: Someone you love - a parent, spouse, child, close friend - has died. The numbness, denial, bargaining, and anger are taking a huge emotional toll as you feel caught in the violent whirlwind of life out of control. If you can, you go through the motions of routine at work and at home but only as a shell of yourself. What's happening to you? You are grieving for the one you lost. Everything within you is crying out in pain while you feel a part of you is gone. All of these feelings are normal and to be expected in the experience of such loss.

Pre-marital: Premarital counseling is a FUN, EXCITING, and EDUCATIONAL time that will put you on the fast track for a great life and successful marriage! Discover personality and temperament styles and differences, roles and responsibilities, spoken and unspoken expectations, handling money, communication, conflict resolution skills, and expected expressions of sexuality.

Marriage: Couples seeking help bring their precious and valuable marriage relationship into counseling. Sometimes the issues are about continuing conflict, other times they can be about communication skills, or finances, or sexual compatibility, or...and the list goes on.

Parenting: We know it's easier to have a child than it is to parent one! Most people love children; it's their immaturity that gets in the way. There are no bad children born. Every child is born with unrelenting needs and expects to have every need met NOW! Every parent today receives their bundle of joy without an instruction booklet or repair manual. So we revert back to what we know about parenting - something many of us swore we would never do - parent the way we were parented.

Divorce: "It's a living death" was the way one person described being divorced. "It would be easier if my ex-spouse had literally died." Divorce is the severing of a living relationship. You may be asking some very difficult questions without easy answers.

Blended Families: Blended and stepfamilies, have a few of the same issues as first marriages and families, but they are different in more ways than they are alike. Blended families are exactly what the term says they are-attempting to blend two families into one. They are born out of loss and grief from abandonment, death or divorce. There are natural and sometimes severe stresses attempting to blend and / or reconcile two famiies' expectations, traditions, histories, birth orders, ghosts from previous relationships or marriages, parenting roles, responsibilities, loyalties, finances, religious beliefs, and a couple of generations of extended families-into ONE!

Individual: Everyone seeks counseling at some point in life. Strength of character is shown when you are seeking advice from someone who has training and expertise in something that you are putting your heart and life into.

Getaways - Seminars & Retreats: Marriage excitement weekends are for those who want to get the most out of their life together. Don't settle for an "I guess average" marriage, supercharge it! Come check us out.

• Two Becomes Us
• Great Expectations
• Love Letters
• Sex In The 60's
• Love EverAfter

Register today for one of our upcoming seminar or workshop events.

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Contact us:

Springfield Marriage and Family Institute, LLC
3734 South Ave Suite C
Springfield, MO 65807

Phone: 417-882-6767
Fax: 417-882-6787
E-mail: info@springfieldmfi.com

Office Hours
Monday - Thursday: 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Friday: 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.