Department of Human Development and Family Studies

Services

What Services Does the CFCT Provide?

Family, Couple, and Individual Therapy

The CFCT provides high-quality counseling for a wide variety of issues, including:

• Couple and relationship enhancement
• Family enrichment
• Parenting children and adolescents
• Family violence and abuse
• Grief and loss
• Divorce, remarriage and building step-families
• School difficulties
• Stress management
• Life transitions and decisions
• Caring for aging parents
• Extended family relationships
• Challenges associated with adolescent development
• At risk youth

Premarital Program

Our 10-week premarital program helps couples develop effective skills and a shared vision for their marriage. The program focuses on philosophy of marriage or intimate partnerships, decision-making, the influence of gender socialization, balancing work and family, finances, division of household labor, conflict resolution, and much more. This program also is relevant for gay and lesbian couples.

Couple's Enrichment

Our 10-week couple's enrichment program helps couples refresh their relationship skills. This program focuses on building deep friendship and intimacy, philosophy of relationships, extended family relationships, conflict resolution, finances, and much more.

Hold Me Tight Workshop

The Hold Me Tight workshop is open to any couple interested in understanding and strengthening their relationship. This educational workshop will help couples recognize their negative conflict cycle, prevent a conflict, and reconnect. The Hold Me Tight workshop uses the concept of emotionally focused therapy, which has a 70 percent to 75 percent success rate. Couples who participate in the workshops will have the opportunity to learn without sharing details about their relationship.

The Hold Me Tight workshop will be from 6:00-7:30 PM and run for four sessions on Mondays from March 19 until April 9, 2012. The workshops will be held on-campus. Each session is $45 or if paid in full, $120.