Every committed, relationship takes work. When a couple encounters challenges, they may find it helpful to seek counseling from a neutral third party. I work with couples to help them learn and develop skills to work through problems.
We discuss whether separation would help them resolve problems in their relationship.
I also work with parents who are already separated or divorced. Learning to work together as parents, even when you're apart, has big benefits for children.
Sometimes couples cannot work things out and they divorce. Counseling can help ease the pain of divorce. It can make it easier to work through money, property, legal and custody issues.
I offer an approach that I call therapeutic mediation.
I combine my experience with counseling with my knowledge of the law to help couples resolve disputes. It's a unique combination that helps keep things fair and moving forward. A key part of this approach is emphasizing the needs of children. Instead of the slow back and forth of emails and faxes between lawyers, couples can sit down and work through issues face to face. Instead of arguments that leave the couple angry and frustrated, I ensure both are heard and understood. That way, we reach agreement through understanding and compromise.
This can often help prevent ugly, lengthy and expensive court proceedings.
When I work with individual clients, I look for all the things that affect them. I learn about the people who are close to them and the people they work with. I learn about where they live, where they work and where they go to have fun. I learn what worries them, and what they are proud of.
I blend the best approaches in medicine, psychology and social treatment. My clients learn to be aware of the things that affect them and how they might react. We work together on changing behavior to reach success.
As we go along, I change and adapt to find the best approach.
This method works for a wide range of issues. I have found over the years that this is the best way to succeed.
In fact, it's really the ONLY way to succeed.
Get in touch so we can work together on any of these issues:
Children and teen-agers go through challenging phases as they grow up. That's always been true. But it seems there are ever more things to worry about today. Concerns about social media and "screen time" compete with headlines about isolation and inactivity.
Parents may not know what to look for. Children and teens show signs of depression and anxiety differently than adults do. At times, it is difficult for family members to know how best to offer support.
Here are the things I can help with:
Bart is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) and has been in practice since 1995. He holds both a Master’s degree in Counseling Psychology from Columbia University and a Doctor of Jurisprudence (JD) from Washington College of Law.
Bart began his counseling career as a therapist at The Women’s Center in Vienna, Virginia. While at the Women's Center Bart developed an Anger Management Program that was endorsed by the Fairfax County Courts; counseling repeat offenders about strategies for developing healthy anger and anger management skills. In addition to Bart's practice, he provides clinical supervision to both graduate students and licensee candidates and has been an adjunct professor of psychology at Marymount University.
Bart draws upon an eclectic theoretical approach with an emphasis on cognitive theory and therapy because of the demonstrated effectiveness with depression, anxiety, anger management, conflict resolution and couples counseling. Bart works with adolescents, adults, couples and families. Due to his uncommon combination of credentials and training, Bart provides a unique approach to couples counseling when individuals have determined that separation and divorce are likely. Bart provides “Therapeutic Mediation”, a term he has coined to help couples reduce the suffering associated with separation and divorce. Bart also provides co-parenting counseling for separated and divorced couples.
Bart's approach is not a traditional "50 minute" session. He makes himself available to his clientèle through flexible scheduling and access through email, phone and skype.
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