Laurel Fay
M.S., LCMFT
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Couples Counseling Expert

Laurel Fay Quick Facts
- Main Areas
- Couples and Marriage Therapy and Counseling
- Career Focus
- Psychotherapist, Business Owner, Speaker, Author
- Affiliation
- Laurel Fay & Associates, LLC; Clinical Fellow of AAMFT
My area of expertise is working with couples "on the brink"; people want their relationships to work but don't know what or how to try. My mission is to hold the hope for these couples until they can re-lea how to hope for themselves - and with good reason, backed by the skills and insight we have gained together.
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How To Get Your Partner To Open Up
Sometimes it seems as if communicating effectively with one’s partner is an impossible task – overshadowed only by their ability (or lack thereof) to communicate with us. What gets in the way? Why is it so hard to talk to the one you love and be really, deeply understood? That’s what we all want. In fact, I think almost every – if not every – issue that plagues a couple can be boiled down to one simple concept, one fundamental question: Do you love me? Followed at a close second by: Really?r
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Is Social Technology Helping or Hurting Your Relationship?
This is a topic close to my heart, as I am married to a techie geek. I'm not insulting him - he would probably take it as a compliment, actually. And well he should. Were it not for my husband's tech prowess, I'd still be rolling paper into our old dot-matrix printer and trying to figure out the fax machine. He has succeeded in dragging his at-times technophobic wife into the 21st century, and truly, it needed to happen. This is a wave - a tsunami - that unless we get on top of, we will find ourselves drowned by.
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Contacting Laurel Fay
Laurel A. Fay, M.S., LCMFT, Licensed Clinical Marriage and Family Therapist
Laurel Fay & Associates, LLC
8720 Georgia Avenue, Suite 308
Silver Spring MD 20910
301-563-9560
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