Etsuko James, M.A., MFT, Life Coach
As a marriage and family therapist and master life coach, I’m here to assist you in bringing balance and harmony back into your life. My approach is driven by evidence-based strategies and is tailored specifically to your needs and desired outcome. One of my passions it working with the newly “in love”. I specialize in Premarital Counseling and utilize the Prepare-Enrich Assessment program.
Throughout the past two decades of working with youth and families, I’ve always felt a great sense of urgency to help strengthen families and the communities they live in. We need stronger marriages, better co-parenting, healthy family relationships, and access to more community resources. Premarital Counseling is key to getting off to a fresh start. I now focus on helping couples strengthen their marriage/relationship by exploring past success and learning new ways to communicate and better understand each other to build solutions. Together, we will explore hopes for the future, identify what’s working and what’s not working, and take smaller steps to bring about bigger changes.
With solution building approach, it helps you to see changes immediately. By exploring your desired outcome, we can facilitate change without going through painful memories and past failures. Changes doesn’t require re-experiencing problems, challenges, and trauma over and over again. Your future does not have to be something dreadful and uncertain. It can be hopeful and flexible!
I also offer online Premarital Counseling and couple’s assessment through Prepare/Enrich, where you can assess the state of your relationship. From there, we will use evidence based approach to ditch the problems, and navigate you to a healthier relationship.
I earned my Bachelor’s Degree in Child and Family Services concentration in Adolescence from Plattsburgh State University of NY, and a Master’s Degree in Marriage and Family Therapy from Alliance University (formally Nyack College). I am also Prepare/Enrich Premarital Counseling Certified Facilitator and Certified Master Life Coach.
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