The Art of Listening

Typically, when you have a bad, persistent cough, the doctor listens to your lungs to hear the issue. In that listening, a better diagnosis is made and/or there is more insight as to how to proceed. Counselors work in a similar manner. We listen.

At Five Stones, we want (and need) to hear your tension, your chaos, your arguments, and even your name calling tendencies. To hear it – we poke and prod the relational buttons, or we pause intervening when they are pushed. It’s one thing for you to tell me how you feel and respond when the crude, cutting words are flying off between you and your spouse: it’s another for me to witness it. Listening is more than hearing, listening is informative. In marital counseling, listening reveals…