Many couples who come for counseling want their insurance to pay their costs. And some plans to cover marriage (or couples) counseling. But the reality isn’t as clean or straightforward as some might want.

Insecurities will stay beneath the surface until the owner experiences sustained stress. Under such stress, depending on how the owner coped with stress as a child and how the owner learned to manage stress by watching adults around him while growing up, the owner’s insecurities may manifest in a variety of ways.

In an effort to gain justice while ignoring forgiveness, family members in family businesses suing each other is not uncommon. In the last couple of years, I’ve encountered several situations in which family members sue each other to seek justice. Never mind that justice is never enough. Forgiveness needs to be part of the picture if a family business is going to survive with the family intact.

Recently, a rather smart, beautiful young lady contacted me about her fiancé’s family business. Her future father-in-law – who owns the business – is overbearing and treats his son – her fiancé – poorly, failing to compensate him and not following through on promises to relinquish control. Even though the father has gifted significant numbers of non-voting shares to his three sons and one daughter, the other three siblings have long since left the business because they can’t get along with their dad. 

In most family owned businesses – whether Christian or not – there is usually an enmeshment of roles for family members who work in the business. They confuse the four roles that anyone can play in a corporation:

Family business is no laughing matter. When couples work together and experience a deterioration in their marriage, who do they turn to? Nearly all therapists and psychologists don’t know what to do with the business aspect of the client’s clinical picture. But at OnPath, this is different. We have deep experience in clinical psychology as well as business ownership and leadership. You can trust us to work seamlessly across both domains to achieve optimal healing for yourself, your marriage, and your business.

In general, the Mental Health Parity Act (MHPA) prohibits health plans and health insurance companies from imposing greater restrictions on mental health (MH) benefits than on medical or surgical (MS) benefits. This includes financial requirements, such as copays, and treatment limitations, including visit limits or prior authorization requirements.

Recently, I had a business client ask me how to heal from past trauma as an adult. I answered by using the analogy of a wake a boat makes when moving through the water. I told her that on one side, we have various relationship bonding ingredients, such as…

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