Marriage and Family Conflict Resolution and Reconciliation                               VA, MD, DC Metro Areas

Resolving conflict within marriage is essential for nurturing a lasting, loving relationship.  Unfortunately, conflict is more frequently avoided than addressed, and when it is addressed, the level of intensity involved is often unhealthy. We seek to help couples and families resolve conflict and restore relationships as well as develop and apply healthy means of addressing and resolving conflict in the future.  Marriage conciliation can help bring peace and harmony back into a broken marriage relationship.

Our primary approach is to meet individually with each spouse prior to the joint conciliation sessions to gain an understanding of each party’s perspective and provide coaching on approaches to resolution.  During the joint conciliation sessions we encourage each party to share their hopes and expectations for the marriage, we identify and unpack the major issues contributing to the conflict, and together with the parties seek to understand and dismantle any barriers to achieving resolution.   We guide parties through forgiveness and reconciliation of personal relationship conflicts.  We encourage parties to confess where needed and to offer forgiveness to one another, opening the door for them to commit to reconciliation with one another.  With barriers removed or overcome we brainstorm with the parties in searching for creative solutions to material issues.  Lastly, we help the parties arrive at a mutually acceptable agreement which resolves their differences and helps strengthen their marriage.

We have helped couples address and resolve instances or patterns of anger, verbal and physical abuse, unfaithfulness, financial mismanagement, and poor communication which lead to broken marriages.

We also can help couples with renewing marital intimacy, rebuilding trust, resolving parenting issues, re-establishing healthy communication and recommitting to their marriage covenant.

Marriage relationship and family law disputes typically make up over 70% of the cases we handle.  As experienced, certified family mediators and Christian conciliators we guide people through the process of resolving marriage and family conflict, restoring and reconciling relationships and developing grace filled homes.  

Our approach is not based on a clinical counseling or traditional marriage counseling model, but rather a biblical conflict resolution and mediation model.  Thus, our services are provided by family mediators certified through the Judicial Council of the Virginia Supreme Court, and Christian conciliators trained and certified through the Institute for Christian Conciliation, a division of Peacemaker Ministries.  While located in downtown Fairfax City, we have served clients throughout the Washington, DC Metro area, including Virginia, Maryland, or beyond.  

Please call us with any questions or to arrange an initial consultation.  We can evaluate your situation and recommend a specific approach that best suits the nature of the conflict and all parties' needs and beliefs. The parties then decide for themselves how they wish to proceed.