Jennine Estes
M.A., MFT #47653
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Relationship Therapist in San Diego: Helping build healthy relationships through Communication Expert
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- San Diego Relationship Therapist: Helping individuals, couples, and families.
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- Marriage and Family Therapist MFC#47653
Hello and thanks for visiting my page. My passion is to help couples find more effective ways to communicating and build a strong connection in their relationship. My therapy practice is in Mission Valley, San Diego working with relationship therapy, premarital counseling, marriage counseling, and more. I work with a variety of conce s: rebuilding trust, decreasing anxiety and stress, decrease depressed feelings, increase communication and intimacy, relationship addiction counseling, and more.
For more relationship tips and communication tools, please visit my blog at http://www.EstesTherapy.com/relationshiptips
Also, take a look around my website at http://www.EstesTherapy.com.
Jennine E. Estes
Marriage and Family Therapist
MFC#47653
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Quick Tips On How To Build Your Trust In Your Relationship
It is very important to show your partner that you are trust-worthy....and here are some quick tips. 1. Follow through with what you say. If you tell your partner that you will be home by 8:00, come home no later than 8:00pm. If you are going to be late, call them and let them know ahead of time. 2. Don't be unrealistic. Avoid saying that you will "Always" have your cell phone on or you will "Never" turn your phone off. This is unrealistic. Sometimes your phone will die or you might forget it or you might not hear it ring.
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Going To Bed Angry: Another View
Many people have heard of the advice to never go to bed angry. This relationship advice has such a great value. It addresses the idea of how couples may feel if going to bed angry, such as feeling emotionally disconnected and unattached, or fear of having unresolved issues getting in the way. This advice is absolutely a great and valuable tool for staying connected and securely attached to your partner. Think about it…going to bed angry in the relationship can create a terrible feeling; it can keep people up all night, have terrible sleep, or many other painful experiences.
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Stop the Defensive Behaviors and Start Communicating
Defensive behavior is one of the leading causes of on-going painful conflicts within a relationship, the type which can lead to long term damage. Defensive behavior sends the message to your partner that their experiences and ideas are wrong, and that you are in the right. However, as you may have seen, in these situations, a well meaning defense can quickly turn into a battle where each side is unwilling to give in. The Communication Battle Attack: History is full of those moments when a true defense was necessary.
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Strengthening your Relationship: Improve Communication
Ask any happy couple what keeps things strong between them, and you’ll more than likely hear that communication is the foundation of a successful relationship. You wouldn’t try to drive a car without filling the gas tank, and you shouldn’t attempt to nurture a relationship not built upon honest, open communication. For example, take a couple that feels very much in love with one another: they spend time together every chance they get, they take classes together in school, they may even work in the same area of employment--sounds ideal, doesn’t it?
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After The Affair: Learning How To Trust Your Partner Again
Rebuilding trust requires the involvement of both participants in the relationship. Initially, the person who shattered the trust will need to work hard to build the trust back. Showing remorse, being consistent, and understanding their partner's pain are all very important in building trust. The unfaithful participant will need to teach their partner that they can be a trustworthy and an emotionally safe person. The partner who was deceived, on the other hand, will also need to do some work to build the trust.
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San Diego Relationship and Marital Therapist
San Diego Therapist helping Couples improve communication, get rid of bad habits, and spend less time arguing. Relationship counseling, Pre-Marital and Marital counseling. MFC#47653
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Relationships in the Raw: Relationship Advice and Communication Tools
Relationship advice and communication tips to build a healthy relationship that lasts.
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Healthy relationships don't require much work, and many people continuously repair or "work on" their relationship. My job as a therapist is to help make the relationship become very natural and easy.
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Jennine E. Estes, MFT
Marriage and Family Therapist MFC#47653
San Diego Couples Counseling
To get started, please contact me to schedule an appointment.
Email: jestes@estestherapy.com
web: http://www.EstesTherapy.com
Telephone: (619) 558-0001
How to get started
Getting started on your relationship can be an investment with a long term reward. You can find many helpful ideas and tools that I wrote to help develop your communication and build a strong foundation.
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