I have medical insurance, but I am looking for something cheaper. I am in grad school and can receive free counseling through school. I went in to discuss a possible appointment, but I found that I am not comfortable being so vulnerable in my school environment. Does anyone know how to get in touch with counselors-in-training who may offer cheaper services? Or any other ways to get cheap or free counseling?

I have an ongoing issue with my daughters mom and have filed paper work for mediation, which she didn’t attend. How is this going to look in court. We have a court date next week and she is stating that she isn’t going to make that appointment either.. This is a court order and she was served.

Her reason is she just started a new job, but I also just started a new job and they approved the time off.

(Location-California)

My wife and I have been married for 9 years but have been a couple for nearly 15. We have (2) small children, ages 6 and 3. My wife admitted to cheating on me during at a work-related out-of-town conference about1 1/2 months ago. I forgave her and we talked about why it happened and how we would deal with it. Over the next month, things were fairly good between us. I did have trust issues but I thought we were making progress. Just last week, she told me she was very unhappy with life, work, our marriage and motherhood. Since then, all intimacy and affection has bascially stopped and it seems like we are more like roomates than a married couple. On a side note, my wife is on hormone medication and just recently started thyroid medicaion as well. Anyways, we had a long talk about our relationship and we discussed the need to see a marriage counseler. My wife couldn’t explain the reason(s) for her unhappiness and wasn’t able to answer some of my questions concerning her love for me and if she truly wanted to stay with me and the children. During our conversation, she brought up the idea of a trial separation on numerous occasions. This is where I am confused and scared. I am 100%, madly in love with my wife and adore her completely but I keep thinking that it was something I did to make her become unhappy. I’ll be the first to admit that I am not the greatest at expressing my innermost thoughts and I tend to hold my feelings back. I am totally against any type of separation because I believe we made marriage vows to stand together, in either good times and bad, and for me, leaving is not the answer. We have a marriage counseler appointment on Thursday and it feels my life is on hold until either my wife decides what she wants to do or what our counseler suggests. My biggest fear is that the counseler might agree that a separation would be beneficial and my wife would be gone by the weekend.
How do I deal with the anxiety and fear that I am feeling? Do I just need to give my wife time to figure out why she is unhappy? Any help or suggestions are surely appreciated!
The cheating episode occured once, with a complete stranger and they didn’t have intercourse. I am 100% sure that she has being faithful to me since that event occured.
My wife’s explaination for the trial separation: It would give her time to think, discover why she is unhappy and to see if being away from the kids and I would make her any happy. If after being separated, she was still unhappy, it might be a medical reason.

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i have called every divorce lawyer in town, out too lunch, busy. my soonest appointment is on Monday. Trust me went thru the yellow pages
i have called every divorce lawyer in town, out too lunch, busy. my soonest appointment is on Monday. Trust me went thru the yellow pages

The young man in this custody battle is repersenting himself and the young women has a lawyer repersenting her, but the child was appointment there own coucler who is working agaisnt the young ewomen just because she is independent and a single mom, and the young man lives with his parent ans is in no way indepent.
the young women involved is a single mom and has had there young child in her care for the last two in half years, and is no in courts for custody battle brought on by the young man who’s parents want the child living with them so there som can give them all rights to caring for the young child.

I made the appointment and will go next Wednesday, but have no clue what to expect. What all will he ask me? What will take place during our meeting? I am in Kentucky, if that makes a difference. Thanks.

I’m currently @ a community college.. I’m looking into the UC system.. I’m due to transfer summer of 2010.. I want to make sure I’m on the right track as far as the courses I’ve taken, gpa, community service, etc.. I’m looking into UCLA, UC Irvine and UC Riverside..

What steps would I have to take for a counseling appointment with someone at the UC system being from a community college? Who would I contact?

Thanks!

My husband and I went for counseling several years ago and it was a waste of time. The therapist just listened and kept asking "how did that make you feel". Then, always cut us off for the next appointment.

We’re having problems again. My husband wants to try counselling. Can it help? Is it a matter of finding a good therapist?

My ex is requesting visitation and shared custody. He made the request and missed the mediation appointment. I was given sole custody in our divorce, and again in a restraining order. There is also a criminal protective order. After all this would a judge still give him what hes requesting? This is the same judge that granted the restraining order for 3 years.

Me and my husband have been together 6 years but I still have major trust issues and insecurities in our marriage. Our relationship has always been unconventional and by that I mean we met while serving overseas and both had pending relationships at home. Once we returned, he moved to the town where I’m from and we ended our previous relationships. Since then we’ve had our ups n downs but I’m still insecure because it seems like everytime we have issues he goes n talks to other women. We have both cheated in the past but I’ve always came clean. He hasn’t,but when I find out he gets angry that I went through his things and says that my insecurites and our issues have lead him to do it. We also have terrible communication and most of the time find ourselves saying the same thing just on opposite sides. I know we are both guilty of many things and don’t have the most healthy relationship but we are trying to establish one and fix it. We have an appointment to go to marriage counseling but I want to get other peoples opinions and advice on how to start moving toward the future in my marriage rather than living and revisiting the past
For the past year, he has been working overseas and me and our 3 year old daughter have only seen him 3 times in that year. Last week he returned for good unexpectantly after being laid off. I don’t know if our communication issues are stemming more from trying to get reacquainted with each other or not.
Just to add….Before I met my husband I was involved in a physically and emotionally abusive relationship. I know most of my insecurities with myself and the trust issues I have with other people stem from that but I don’t know how to erase the affects that relationship had on me and not have it ruin this one.