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Couples Therapy,
Marriage Counseling, Premarital Counseling, Marital Counselor, & Sex
Therapist

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Chris Wright, M.A. |
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Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist

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Previous Director at
THE
HUMAN
RELATIONS
INSTITUTE,
Houston
& PAIRS
INTERNATIONAL,
Washington, D.C. |
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Welcome. |
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When you walk into the session, our
focus is on developing positive
communication skills and awarenesses,
enabling you to respond to each other’s
needs, and safely resolve your issues
together. Without the blame.
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You will leave the first session feeling
something has shifted that was
important, and necessary, as you open
up, and move forward on track together. |
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The Latest Intimacy
Skills,
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Communication Skills &
Conflict Resolution Tools
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for Increasing Harmony &
Fulfillment Together
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607 Chain Bridge Road, McLean, VA 22101
(GW Parkway to the Chain Bridge exit)
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Email:
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Available Week Days & Evenings, Saturday & Sunday
Afternoons
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Your Medical Insurance Can Apply |
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Recent Local Yahoo Reviews |
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"My Husband and I began counseling with Mr.
Chris Wright on the verge of separation...
he does not waste time, and his principles
and counseling techniques are extremely
effective. Chris Wright saved our marriage.
He gave us the tools to have a loving,
joyful and lasting marriage. In just six
sessions..." (read
more) |
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"This is
one of those instances where I got much more
than I expected. 30 minutes into our first
session with Chris, he had, with amazing
accuracy, identified our individual and
couple personality types. He had my husband
and me feeling comfortable enough to speak
honestly and openly... Our first two
sessions were so helpful that..."
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more) |
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"Our
marriage was deeply troubled. It was
amazing how he made us feel welcome from the
first moment, and how he helped us both to
open up and begin to work together as a
team... he always made us feel wonderfully
supported and appreciated. In a few
months, we managed to scale heights that
would have seemed impossible just a short
while before."
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more) |
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Programs & Articles

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What Would Make Your Marriage
Or Relationship More Fulfilling?

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Remember when you first met
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how open your hearts were together, and
how connected you felt? Remember the
fun, the free flow of appreciation,
affection, good will, and love you
shared naturally together? What has
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Whatever it is, couples like you can
learn to be able to open up your hearts
again (or learn how to keep them open).
However, it will take gaining
awarenesses, and learning skills and
tools that make the process emotionally
safe in your day-to-day lives together.
So you can share your needs in ways that
are heartfelt, without blame or making
others’ wrong. So both partners feel
heard, understood, and responded to --
without having to nag, complain, argue,
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Couples can also learn to make the
relationship more fulfilling, and fun --
even more than before. As your
communication skills for resolving
issues are developed, trust and good
will emerge again. Or deepen.
Now you can focus on expanding your
intimacy skills and caring behaviors
together. You each open up and learn to
express appreciation easily together --
support, quality time, affection,
surprises, romance, and share more
meaningful and enjoyable activities
together.
And, finally, couples can learn to make
love together. In a natural, more
innocent way that is more fulfilling for
both of you. And not just have “sex.”
Fortunately, in this new orientation to
couples therapy and marriage counseling,
it does not take long to develop these
new awarenesses, communication skills,
conflict resolution tools, and intimacy
skills. Nor does it have to cost an arm
and a leg. |
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Who is Chris Wright, M.A., LMFT
& What Can He Do?

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Chris Wright, M.A., LMFT
is a Licensed Marriage and Family
Therapist and a Licensed Professional
Counselor. He offers marriage
counseling, couples counseling, sex
therapy, premarital counseling, and
anger management counseling for those in
Northern Virginia, Maryland, and
Washington DC. He also offers Telephone
Counseling for those outside the
Virginia, Maryland, and Washington, DC
metro area. |
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As a marital therapist, couples
counselor, pre marriage counselor, and
sex therapist, Chris Wright specializes
in helping couples and individuals
develop more conscious loving
relationships, marriages, and families.
He has over 20 years experience in
directing programs on couples issues.
Resolving these Issues:
Chris Wright’s expertise includes anger
management issues,
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criticizing,
and arguing in relationships. And issues
dealing with accountability,
expectations, and responsiveness in the
day-to-day responsibilities in the
relationship. Money and financial
issues, parenting and child rearing
issues, difficult stepchildren, his or
her parents, or his or her friends.
Decision making in the relationship,
control issues, where partners feel a
need to be listened to, and honored.
Also, how well you each manage stress,
insecurities, anxiety, emotions, alcohol
or substance abuse in the relationship.
All are important to know how to manage
and resolve safely together.
Many couples experience issues around
the need for
More Communication, and
opening up more together. It is
important for couples to learn how to
communicate effectively with their
partner. And connect in a heartfelt way
more fully with each other.
Chris Wright also has expertise in
issues with
Sexual Infidelity, with
wives or husbands cheating, or caught
cheating, in an extramarital affair, an
emotional affair, or love affair. These
issues need to be fully resolved
together. Also, trust issues around
telling the truth, withholding, or
secrets. Surrendering your heart
requires a foundation of trust together.
That trust develops when you are able to
safely resolve your issues together and
respond to each other’s core needs.
To do so, however, requires each of you
developing your skills in communication
together! And gaining more
Self
Awareness. In this process of couples
counseling, you gain self awareness of
your natural gifts, as well as your
challenges and blinders. So that you
each can readily recognize, and own, the
pressures in your personality, instead
of acting them out unconsciously in your
life or onto others. You will also gain
more understanding and sensitivity for
your partner’s world and core emotional
needs. You become more responsive and
honoring of what really matters to each
other in this relationship.
With so many years of experience working
with couples, Chris Wright also provides
useful
Relationship
Advice and Support.
This enables both of you to see more
options, and establish the most
effective solutions. You will see how
you can better align with and support
each other’s needs. So you grow closer
together emotionally, and spiritually.
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In addition, as a
Sex
Therapist,
Chris Wright works with sex problems in
the relationship, as well as sexual
healing from sexual trauma from the
past. He deals with issues such as
dissatisfying sex, or not enough sex, or
no sex in a marriage; sexual addiction,
pornography, and overwhelming sexual
desires and needs; frigidity, lack of
lubrication; sexual abuse and trauma
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lack of desire, turn off’s,
unresponsiveness, and inhibitions.
Also, the frameworks Chris Wright
teaches provide the safety to enable men
who face impotency or premature
ejaculation to relax and feel in
command. Both of these issues tend can
be tied to inner emotional pressures
that take over and overshadow the man,
where he loses his potency, or his
sense of control. This can make an
incredible difference for the man (and
the woman!).
Chris Wright teaches
The LoveMaking
Process
-- enabling couples to
experience more intimate and fulfilling,
natural, innocent LoveMaking together.
You can
Learn more about Chris Wright,
M.A., LMFT
and his background by
clicking HERE. |
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Learning these New Skills
Can Make All the Difference

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Couples Benefit
from these new awarenesses, skills, and
tools offered in this orientation to
couples counseling and premarriage
counseling whether they are happy and
hopeful or emotionally distant, or
severely distressed. |
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Couples
who are starting to feel
frustrated,
a little distant, or unhappy --
they will want to catch this
early, and turn it around. Most,
however, are hoping that it will
somehow get better with time. It
doesn’t. Instead, it tends to
wear you down as the months and
years go by. |
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Couples
who feel like they are on their last
legs
-- who have been together for a while
and it has been difficult. They’re wondering if
they should throw in the towel.
Is it too late to turn it
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In relationships where there is
not enough positive
communication skills, or the
ability to resolve differences,
tensions, and issues together
safely -- then, of course, there
is blaming and criticizing that
develop into arguments and
fights together. And, of course,
it results in walls and
emotional distance. Where, now,
nobody’s needs are fully being
met. |
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If
you don’t develop these skills,
why would it be any different going
forward? What do you expect? This is a
slippery slope that leads you down a
path of alienation, loneliness,
separation, and divorce. A process that
affects not only you, but also your
children’s lives and your families.
In this couples therapy and marital
therapy,
Your
experience right from the first session
is positive and affirming together. Even
if you’re distressed, unhappy,
frustrated, resentful, distrusting, or
maybe even not talking to each other.
You will experience, however, that
you
can
develop sensitive and honoring
communication skills. And you can learn
new, powerful conflict resolution tools
that can make a difference. These new
tools are powerful enough to provide the
emotional healing necessary for each of
you to resolve the most painful and
difficult issues -- in your
relationship, and from your past.
For couples at the end of their rope,
certainly this process for resolving
your issues together is inexpensive and
less arduous compared to going through a
painful or difficult divorce. Or going
on living together unfulfilled!
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Happily
married couples
also value this process of couples
counseling and marriage therapy. It is
important to them to continue to grow
together. With these new conscious
relationship tools, the relationship now
becomes a vehicle for their personal and
spiritual growth. With these natural
frameworks, they discover that they feel
safer opening up together. They find
themselves learning, growing, healing,
and deepening together. In so doing,
they find more peace inside. And feel
even more compelled by their love for
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Couples
planning to get married
especially come for premarital or pre
marriage counseling because they want to
be sure that their love lasts. That they
grow together, and not apart (as half of
all marriages eventually do). These
relationship skills are so important to
develop just starting out. Having this
skill set assures that you preserve the
richness of your intimacy together.
Through thick and thin. |
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Remember, Crises Can Be an
Opportunity for You to Grow


(if You Get the Support & Wisdom You
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And For Your Relationship to Evolve to a
New Level - Deeper than Ever Before |
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With these new awarenesses and
positive communication and conflict
resolution tools, you can use the
current, divisive issues you are facing
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a
catalyst to move your
relationship to a new level of
closeness and trust. So this
juncture in your relationship
right now can either lead to an
eventual crisis or it can be an
important opportunity to take
the relationship to the next
level! Where you learn how to
open up more vulnerably
together, and connect more
deeply, than ever before. |
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Remember how great it was when you first
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It can be that way again! |
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But it is going to take developing these
new skills together in your lives. So
you provide the safety and deeper
emotional and healing connection
necessary to sustain the intimacy and
harmony this time! And save the
marriage or relationship. |
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What
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Programs:
These innovative relationship skills and
intimacy tools are offered in programs,
including individual therapy (Yes, you
can come learn them by yourself),
couples therapy, telephone counseling,
workshops, lectures, training classes,
and seminars.
Chris
Wright’s Office
is quick and easy to reach, conveniently
just off the Route 50 - Arlington
Boulevard exit of the 495 beltway in
Falls Church. Clients come from Falls
Church, Annandale, Fairfax, Vienna,
McLean, Arlington, Alexandria, Burke,
Springfield, Woodbridge, Centreville,
Chantilly, Reston, Herndon, as well as
Washington, D.C., Montgomery County and
Prince Georges County in Maryland --
including Bethesda, Rockville, Potomac,
Kensington, Wheaton, Silver Spring,
Greenbelt, and Capitol Heights.
The
Hours
for marriage counseling and couples
therapy sessions, individual sessions,
and for telephone counseling, are during
weekdays
and on select evenings. Also, for your
convenience, sessions are available on
Saturday and Sunday afternoons.
In addition, note that
Medical
Insurance can apply.
And a sliding fee scale is available. |
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Call Today
for a
Free
Consultation:

(703)
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Chris
Wright, M.A., LMFT is a Specialist in:
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Couples Counseling
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Marriage Therapy
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Telephone Counseling
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Sexual problems
& Sex Therapy
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Sex Addiction, Pornography,
Oversexed
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Depression
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Anxiety
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Drug & Alcohol Addiction
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Transgender & Sexual Identity
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Tantra
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Enneagram
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Transcendental Meditation
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