Barbara Grossman PhD

Dr. Barbara Grossman believes that good relationships are good for your health. It is dramatically clear from research that taking care of your health means taking care of your emotional and psychological well being, as well as taking care of your relationships.

Dr. Barbara Grossman works with individuals, couples and families of all types to strengthen relationships and solve problems that arise from the natural course of couple and family life with all the pressures and complexities of the 21st century. Therapy is brief, results oriented and affordable.

Dr. Barbara Grossman has a great sense of modern marriages with over 50,000 counselling sessions since 1990. Since 1994 Dr. Barbara has led marriage classes with her husband for over 1,000 couples.

Mythologist Joseph Campbell says: “Marriage is not a love affair, it is an ordeal.” Drs. Michael and

Barbara promise: If you successfully navigate the ordeal of marriage you will transform your experience of life, love and God. Michael and Barbara are committed to guiding you into an intimate, romantic partnership filled with passion, joy, enthusiasm, mutual appreciation while dissolving old hurts, resentments, emotional distance and the power struggle.

The Drs. say they have had 3 marriages with each other. The first was 10 years of Michael deciding what was best and Barbara cooperating. The 2nd was a 4 year power struggle as Barbara began thinking for herself as she went to psychology graduate school. The 3rd is a delightful joining of 2 independent personalities with ever increasing joy.

After 20 years of leading marriage classes for thousands of couples, Barbara and Michael have created the best technology to navigate the marriage journey. The book “The Marriage Map” combines practical skills, inspiring personal stories and a vision of transformation through marriage.

Dr. Barbara received her PhD in a pastoral counselling from Claremont School of Theology. She is committed to teaching skills to move couples from emotional distance and power struggle to feeling understood, appreciated and respected using wisdom from our Western cultural tradition. Dr. Barbara’s passion is to promote personal development which is the key to success in the marriage journey.

She is a master at seeing a couple and knowing what are the next steps needed for their successful journey through life. Dr. Barbara uses her intuition developed over 30 years and 50,000 hours of counseling individuals and couples.

Dr. Michael has been a practitioner and teacher of meditation to over 1000 people over 40 years. He has led attitudinal healing classes for over 20 years, teaching how to create love, let go of resentments, fears and how to create an experience of connection to God. He is passionate about using romantic partnership as a vehicle to move us through higher stages of inner development.

Dr. Michael works as an anti-aging physician teaching health and longevity through balancing nutrition, hormones, exercise, meditation and healthy relationships.

Over the last 15 years, Drs. Michael and Barbara have conducted marriage enrichment classes in churches, synagogues, religious groups and service organizations around Southern California and throughout United States. Drs. Michael and Barbara regularly conduct their marriage enrichment program in a series of four 2 hour classes in their southern California office.

Online classes are available through our website, www.TheMarriageMap.com, as is our book The Marriage Map. Individual and couple sessions are available online and in-person.

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