by Sabrina Walters | May 13, 2024 | Core Values Couples, Couples, Intimacy, Marriage, Relationships, Sex
Sabrina here! I’m back with the next installment of our exploration of the “Eight Dates” discussed in Eight Dates: Essential Conversations for a Lifetime of Love by John Gottman, Julie Schwartz Gottman, Doug Abrams, and Rachel Carlton Abrams. Things are getting real...
by Sabrina Walters | Jan 20, 2023 | Communication, Conflict, Core Values, Core Values Couples, Couples, Family, Relationships
Here at Core Values Counseling, the Core Values Index™ (CVI™) is absolutely critical to the work we do with couples, especially for those struggling with perpetual conflict. In some of our recent posts, I’ve talked about discovering the gifts of your highest core...
by Sabrina Walters | Oct 20, 2022 | Core Values Counseling, Core Values Couples, Counseling
Here at Core Values Counseling, we invest deeply in our student interns who come alongside us and receive comprehensive training, support from seasoned therapists, and mentorship throughout their time with us. When a new student intern joins the Core Values...
by Sabrina Walters | Sep 3, 2021 | Core Values, Core Values Couples
You may have noticed that in these posts, we often reference something called the CVI: the Core Values Index. The CVI is the first human assessment that measure the innate, unchanging nature in each of us. It has the highest testability of any ‘personality test’ there...
by Sabrina Walters | Jul 29, 2021 | Core Values Couples, Couples, Relationships
Recently my team of counselors all went through the Gottman Level 3 training; for some of us, it was a revisiting of topics we’d covered before, and for some it was totally new. But even though I’d done this training before, something new stood out to me (it always...
by Sabrina Walters | Jul 6, 2021 | Core Values Couples, Couples, Relationships
With the passing of another Independence Day, I can’t help but be reminded of something the Gottmans teach. That might seem a strange connection to you — after all, what exactly does independence have to do with healthy relationships? Excellent question....
