Where We Stand Counseling and Consulting has over 20 years professional experience providing counseling and consulting services to families facing diverse sets of challenges. Whether you’ve had couples counseling before, or this is your first time, this couples counseling intensive will greatly accelerate your progress.
Who Should Attend?
Couples struggling in their relationship.
Engaged, newly married couples or dating couples who want to prevent negative patterns from arising, and learn proven skills to create a strong flourishing relationship.
Why Choose Us?
Lodging and Meals are Included
Staying in a cooped up hotel room for a couples counseling healing intensive isn’t ideal. Instead, stay in a 5 bedroom modern home with a relaxing and peaceful setting.
Personalized Experience
Every couple is unique and requires a personalized approach. The intensive is designed to meet your unique needs and your schedule. We don’t subscribe to the one size fits all therapy approach. I’ll design a couples counseling intensive tailored to your needs. Our counselors are constantly studying new psychological research on what makes masters and disasters of marriage and have decades of combined years as educators and counselors in clinical practice.
One-on-One couples sessions and Group Work
When you attend our couples counseling intensive you will have the reassurance that you will be working 1-on-1 with a highly skilled marriage therapist and you are given the experience of working in groups with other couples. Our therapy approach is based on the two most heavily researched couples therapies in the world: Dr. Sue Johnson’s Emotionally Focused Therapy and Drs. John and Julie Gottman’s: Gottman Couple Therapy.
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Marriage & Couples Counseling Intensive
We are currently accepting registration for our next intensive which is scheduled during the weekend of January 11th – January 13th.
Too Soon? Complete the registration form and we will reach out to you to coordinate the Marriage and Couples Counseling Intensive that is most convenient for your schedule.
If you try to resolve conflicts at the surface level, conflicts will keep repeating like a revolving door
- Dr. Monica Gray, EdD
We Have Several Goals in Mind…
- Enhancing your emotional intimacy and sexual intimacy so you feel loved and understood.
- Listen. Empathize. Lean toward your partner, instead of away, so you stop the loneliness, anger and pain.
- Express your emotions, thoughts and needs constructively so your partner wants to connect with you.
- Stop hurting each other.
- Become each others best friend.
- Create win-win solutions to meet each other’s core needs.
- Spot and stop your negative coping patterns when you get triggered.
- We will help you discover your deepest needs and emotions, and communicate from that level.
- Manage resentment, hurt, anger, and fear effectively so you grow in intimacy instead of shrink back or lash out.
- Heal emotional wounds that block intimacy.
- Apologize and forgive. Reach true reconciliation so you trust each other again.
- Be true to your Authentic Self. Stop losing yourself in your relationship.
- Learn how to be assertive, not aggressive nor non-assertive.
- Stay motivated to do what it takes even when the going gets tough.
Dr. Monica Gray, EdD, LPC, CAMS
Dr. Monica Gray, LPC, EdD, CAMS
Dr. Monica Gray, EdD, LPC, CAMS completed her masters work in Professional Counseling in 2002 and the Doctoral Counselor Education and Supervision Program through Argosy University in 2013.
Currently, Dr. Gray serves as an Adjunct Professor at Point University where she feels an innate responsibility to facilitate personal and professional growth within her students. Concurrently, she has a thriving private practice in Tucker, Georgia and has worked as a Behavioral Health Counselor for the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities for the past 17 years.
Dr. Gray’s clinical experiences include: behavioral assessment and counseling for individuals with developmental disabilities, individual, emotionally focused couples counseling, adolescent groups, family therapy with adults and children, and psychological testing. She has practiced in community agencies and state regulated sites. She also worked with refugees through the Georgia Coalition of Refugee Mental Health. Thus, her research interests have focused on multicultural issues such counseling refugees with post traumatic stress disorder and providing services for individuals with developmental disabilities.
Dr. Gray holds the following counseling credentials: Licensed Professional Counselor – Georgia, Certified Anger Management Specialist – Georgia and previous Certified Professional Counselor Supervisor.
Dr. Dana A. Griffin, EdD, LPC, CPCS
Dr. Dana A. Griffin, EdD, LPC, CPCS
Dr. Dana A. Griffin, EdD, LPC, CPCS received her Doctor of Education degree in Counselor Education and Supervision November 2013 and her M.A. in Professional Counseling in 2005 from Argosy University, Atlanta. She received a B.S. in Psychology from the University of Georgia in 2002.
Dr. Griffin has been a Licensed Professional Counselor since 2008 and a Certified Professional Counselor Supervisor since 2015 in the state of Georgia. She is a Clinical Faculty member at Southern New Hampshire University teaching Diversity, Human Growth & Development, and Professional Ethics. As the owner of Vision Counseling & Consulting, LLC in Conyers, GA, her mission is to walk with clients along their journey, equipping them with the mental, physical, and spiritual tools to achieve wellness both personally and professionally.
Dr. Griffin specializes in depression, anxiety, crisis intervention, couples and family, divorce, blended family issues, sexuality, and professional/career development. She also provides supervision to counseling professionals seeking full licensure in the state of Georgia. Her research interests include diversity, violence against the LGBTQ+ in the Caribbean, depression among men of color, the professional development of women in academia, and the wellness of counselors.
Ms. Angela B. Hammond, LPC, CPCS
Ms. Angela B. Hammond, LPC, CPCS
Ms. Angela B. Hammond is a Licensed Professional Counselor. Angela has been licensed since 1997 and a Certified Counseling Supervisor since 21012. She graduated from Purdue University where she received a B.A. in elementary and special education. She earned an M.S. in Community Counseling from Chicago State University and has worked in numerous settings. She is currently a counselor at Georgia State University.
Some of Angela’s professional interests include depression, co-dependency, self-esteem issues, adolescents and human trafficking. She believes that you have to know where you’ve been in order to know where you’re going.
Dr. Maurita Hodge, EdD, LPC, NCC, CPCS
Dr. Maurita Hodge, EdD, LPC, NCC, CPCS
Dr. Maurita Hodge, EdD, LPC, NCC, CPCS is a Licensed Counselor/Supervisor at her private practice (Moving Mountains Consulting, LLC), a contractor in the helping field; and, Chair at Point University. She earned by B.A. in Human Relations from Trinity College in Washington, DC, her M.A. in School Counseling from Clark Atlanta University in Atlanta, GA and her EdD in Counseling Psychology from Argosy University, Sarasota.
Dr. Hodge has held many positions – some she was asked to leave, some she left on her own, and one the Lord had to remove her to prepare her for her assigned task. Prior to entering the Counseling profession, she worked in the legal field at Turner Broadcasting as an Administrative Assistant to attorneys in Property Law and Employment Law.
2004 is the year she entered the counseling field as a School Counselor, first at an alternative school and then an inner-city school here in Atlanta, GA. She also provided in-home counseling services through a children’s shelter to children and parents ordered by the courts.
In 2011 Dr. Hodge resigned from her position as a School Counselor to start her practice – Moving Mountains Consulting, LLC. She also began working with various Behavioral Health agencies and with the Department of Family and Children Services (DFCS) where she facilitated groups (Parenting, Anger Management, etc.), developed programs for school systems, and completed various assessments for families with DFCS and/or legal involvement.
A year later (2012), Dr. Hodge began serving as the Chair for the Social and Behavioral Sciences Department at a Christian-based university and teaching on the collegiate level (in class and online). So as of today, she counsels, educates, supervises, assesses, consults and serves on a daily basis.
Not taking advantage of the blessings she continues to receive, she operates from a mindset of utilizing her experience and skills to assist others on their journey to whole and healthy in service to God’s people.
Ms. Sharon Bryant, LAPC, CPCS
Ms. Sharon Bryant, LAPC, CPCS
Ms. Sharon Bryant, LAPC, CPCS is a Licensed Associate Professional Counselor in the State of Georgia. Ms. Bryant received her Master’s degree in clinical psychology from the University of Georgia in 1988 and completed a Marriage and Family Therapy Certification program in 2011 at Argosy University in Atlanta, GA.
Ms. Bryant has over 28 years of experience in the field of mental health, substance abuse and developmental disabilities. Her clinical experiences include individual counseling, family therapy and group counseling. Areas of expertise include mental health diagnosis, substance abuse treatment, developmental disabilities and domestic violence.
Ms. Bryant has practiced in a variety of community agencies and state regulated sites working with both adolescence, adults and families. Ms. Bryant holds the following counseling credentials: Licensed Associate Professional Counselor – Georgia, and Certified Marriage and Family Therapist – Georgia.
