Strategic Marriage Counseling by Dr. Bryce Kaye for New Bern, Kinston & Havelock NC
Strategic Counseling
= Clear Goals + An Effective PlanDr. Bryce Kaye, Author and Therapist
790 Cardinal Rd., Suite 4, New Bern, NC 28562
Tel. 252 249 3099
Author of The Marriage First Aid Kit, a book about saving your relationship.
As seen on WRAL-TV:
The Marriage First Aid Kit contains many useful tools.
Dr. Kaye discusses some important relationship truths, (Parts 1 and 2)
Watch Dr. Kaye explain what really happens during destructive conflict:
Strategic marriage counseling is active and direct (A few words from Dr. Kaye)
"Strategic marriage counseling" is active and direct unlike other forms of counseling that are passive. Whether it's individual psychotherapy or couples counseling, I work with a logical plan on how to help you to achieve your goals. I believe that you deserve more than just being heard and supported. My active style is to teach you different strategies to gradually change your emotions and emotionally driven behaviors over time. That way, you can grow to become the person or the couple that you want to be.
So that you can better understand my approach, I have placed an incredible amount of useful information on this website. If you want individual counseling or therapy, read below about the different types that I offer. If you seek marriage counseling, then open the following Marriage First Aid Kit and read my book chapters below to help yourselves even before you set an appointment.
The Following are types of counseling that Dr. Kaye offers to residents in New Bern, Havelock and Morehead City:
Adjustment counseling & stress management
Healing emotional wounds (trauma resolution)
Raising self-esteem and reducing self-defeating shame
Anger management & assertiveness training
Watch Dr. Kaye explain a useful tool for managing conflicts:
Watch Dr. Kaye explain a tool to improve your anger management:
Read chapters from Dr. Kaye's book:
Just a few words about how and why I wrote this book.
This chapter illustrates how our own fear of shame is the greatest obstacle we have to face if we want to improve an intimate relationship.
Chapter 2 - The Structure of Vital Relationships
Love based relationships do not have as much stability or resilience as do integrity based relationships. This chapter describes the strong foundation of a relationship that can stand the test of time.
Chapter 3 - Balance and Paradox
A vital relationship needs to be dynamic and not static. Opposing needs and emotional states must be kept balanced over time. This chapter unravels the paradox.
Chapter 4 -
Nurturing Healthy Attachments
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Relationships must be fed. It’s not enough just to feel. This chapter explains the fundamentals about how attachment needs can be effectively met.
Chapter 5 - Love's Hidden Assassin
A very common relationship killer operates far below our awareness. It leads to the numbing loss of attraction and affection.
Chapter 6 - The Other Usual Suspects
This chapter outlines the other most common relationship killers in couples.
Chapter 7 - Freeing and Strengthening Your Hedonic Self
If you’re starting to numb out and lose attraction, this chapter suggests what you do to start resuscitating the part of yourself that’s going dormant.
Chapter 8 - Defending Autonomy
This chapter gives you tools to ward off covert inhibition that might otherwise strangle your affection.
This chapter describes different types of constructive and destructive marriage conflicts. Strategies are outlined for managing each.
Chapter 10 - Sharing Power and Responsibility
This chapter provides some useful tools for negotiating chores, structuring finances, and dealing with in-laws.
This chapter describes psychological elements of great sex as well as some guidelines on how to get there.
Chapter 12 - Mapping Your Strategy
This chapter discusses how to plan for change.
Addendum: Message to a Daughter
Read the beginning chapters to Dr. Kaye's next book
When Love & Anger Got Married: Human Paradox & Spiritual Growth
Chapter 2 - Our Quantum Selves
Chapter 5 - Cracking The Enigma

Captain
Bryce Kaye is a U.S. Coast Guard licensed merchant marine officer with a masters
level certification. In addition to his land-based marriage counseling for New
Bern, Kinston and Havelock residents, read about Dr. Kaye's unique service in
Oriental, NC that offers a highly personalized marriage counseling cruise.
You and your partner can be counseled by Dr. Kaye on how to improve your relationship while you sail to lovely destinations on
the rivers and sounds of North Carolina.
Read about our private
marriage counseling retreats . These
couples retreats take place on a 7 day
nautical odyssey. Learn how our
private couples counseling
retreats employ a very unique
strategy.
To schedule an appointment:
If you want to explore the possibility of marriage counseling with Dr. Kaye, just give him a call.
Dr. Kaye's office: 790 Cardinal Rd., Suite 4, New Bern NC 28562. Tele. 252 249 3099
Dr. Kaye also provides individual psychotherapy and marriage counseling for Raleigh, Cary, and Apex at his other practice: Cary Counseling Center.
Bryce Kaye & Associates also refers to the
Baby Steps program. If you have marriage
problems related to infertility consider the positive alternative of surrogacy.
The Baby Steps program can help you coordinate as an
egg donor to a gestational
carrier who can then act as a temporary surrogate mother.
11/22/2008