Relationship Counseling – SAVE YOUR RELATIONSHIP

Marriage Counseling: Serving the entire United States for over 20 years

As A Relationship Saving Licensed Marriage Counselor In Practice For Over 20 Years, I’ve Helped Countless People, Who Were On The Verge Of Losing Their Relationship For Good, To Stop Their Breakup Even If They Feared It Was Beyond Saving And Even If They Were The Only One Who Wants To Save It.

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Call me now on my cell: 310-429-3658
I’m glad to speak with you for several minutes for free and answer some of your most biggest concerns. I can be reached within 10 minutes on my cell phone 310-429-3658, if I’m not in session. If I’m in session & you leave a message, I’ll call you back on my first break. I understand and respect the fact that you’re urgently trying to save your relationship and to keep your family together and that you need to make contact with me as soon as possible.

Same day appointments available.
Insurance welcome.
Evenings until 10pm & Weekend Appointments available.
Sessions in person or by phone.
[email protected]

Which of the following describes your situation:

“My husband and I personify the saying, “Opposites attract,” and one Saturday three months ago we’d finally hit the wall; We were in that make it or break it moment.

This was especially frustrating because for the ten months prior we’d been seeing a highly recommended psychologist who seemed to make our emotional situation worse. Every session went about the same: we’d air our discontents, yelling would commence, tears would fall, and the psychologist would “arbitrate”, but offer no tangible alternative ways of dealing with our conflict and emotions when he wasn’t there with us. Then he’d conclude that while we were both, “intelligent, kind, loving people, maybe you’re just not cut out to be together.” Nothing felt more awful than being told by a professional that our relationship was probably doomed. We knew we loved each other – and I knew there had to be some better way.

In desperation on that particular Saturday I Googled “how to save my marriage” and that took me to Fred’s website. Half an hour later we had him on the phone (on a Saturday, no less!). He asked us both one simple question, “Are you committed to saving your marriage?” Even though we were raw with anger, resentment, and hurt, we each said yes. And then he scheduled us a session for later that day.

Ever since that first session Fred has been gently providing us with relationship skills we hadn’t been taught before. His approach is non-judgmental, and deliberately – remarkably – simple, and his techniques do work quickly if you are dedicated to following the steps he’s laid out for you. He provided us with time-tested ways to stop our fights before they start, and the techniques one needs to function more healthily in their relationship. Best of all he’s started to give us a way to better accept each other the way we are – rather than try to change one another. And he does this without psychoanalysis or psychobabble. It is a very refreshing approach to couples counseling; He’s not just a relationship saver, he’s a relationship builder.
Thanks Fred!” -Nichole and Jake Chambers

“Before we came to Fred Talisman, my wife and I were on the verge of divorce. Issues had become so complex and intertwined that we couldn’t begin to sort through them. Also, the emotions associated with the issues were preventing us from being able to work them effectively. Trust had been breached as we “acted out” in various ways to relieve the stress. Fred provided both a supportive, safe container as well as the feedback necessary for us to separate the issues from our emotions and the issues from each other. He also taught us how to compartmentalize issues, breaking them down into simple negotiations. With his help, our marriage has transformed into a place where we can manage our relational and situational challenges in a way that brings us closer together, rather than pushing us apart. Thank you, Fred, for helping us save and positively transform our marriage!” –David and Christina Litman

“When my wife and I first contacted Fred we were already separated. We just couldn’t get past all the fighting and arguing. I’m so glad we got Fred’s help. He gave us the foundation we needed to get our marriage back on track. We are back together and doing better than we ever have before.”-Chris Chapman
“By the time I found Fred Talisman, my girlfriend was ready to break up with me. I was devastated. She is the person I love more than anyone. She is my soulmate. She felt that she could never trust me again and that she could never forgive me.

Before I found Fred, I had tried other things and spoke to other people, but not only were their methods ineffective, some actually made things worse with her!

I saw couples counseling with Fred as my last resort but my girlfriend wouldn’t do it with me. I worked with Fred on my own while working with his home study course, ‘Save Your Relationship.’ I’m not geographically close to Fred’s office, so I worked with him by phone. To my amazement, working with Fred by phone was more valuable than any help I’ve gotten in person.

Thanks to Fred, my girlfriend gave me a last chance. Fred gave me hope beyond hope. I was impressed with his depth of understanding and compassion. I saw the first improvements with my girlfriend almost immediately after the first session with I did with Fred. My girlfriend and I are now stronger than ever as a couple. Everything is working really well. It’s amazing. I’m very grateful and thankful for all of Fred’s incredible help. The skills he taught me have also improved every other relationship in my life, including my friends, relatives, work mates and casual acquaintances. If everyone learned Fred’s skills and put them into practice, the world would be a much better place.

I really can’t thank Fred enough and by the grace of God, I am on a much better track now with my girlfriend. Fred not only showed me how to save my relationship. He also forever changed my life for the better.

What I got from Fred is the most valuable help I have ever received.”-Dennis Hart

“Fred was instrumental in helping my wife and I work through a very difficult chapter in our life. After helping us work through the immediate ‘crisis’, he went further and gave us the communication skills necessary to having a healthy relationship. These tools have transformed the way we interact and have allowed us to reach mutually beneficial agreements on items that had long been a source of conflict.” –Stan Johnson

“Fred Talisman is a genius. In two weeks He took us from being in crisis to be in a happy secure place with each other. He’s damned good.” –Roger Bond

“We’re actually doing wonderful right now. We took the info from your home study course and the couple of sessions we had with you and we’ve started totally fresh and are very happy. Thank you for all your help. I refer you to everyone we know.” -Andrea Crowder

“Fred Talisman is one of the top marriage counselors in the country and is on a mission to save relationships, keep families together and to show you how to make your relationship fully work for both of you. If your relationship has gotten off track or you just know there can be more, Fred can show you how to turn it all around and take things to the next level.” –Kelli Calabrese, 2004/2007 Personal Trainer of the Year,America‘s Fitness, Nutrition and Lifestyle Expert

“Fred Talisman, a licensed marriage counselor for over twenty years, saves and revives a dying relationship. How does he do it? Well he’s not the stereotypical marriage counselor who sits back and says “uh huh” and watches couples get more and more polarized as they further talk themselves out of their relationship by giving their laundry list of built up hurts and resentments. If a couple is drowning, he’s the lifeguard and he jumps in and does whatever it takes to save them, to buy them a second chance, a turning point. I think he’s a brilliant strategist. He uses his strategies to turn around years of pain. He uses them to defuse years of tension. He uses them to get the couple reconnected to the love and magic that brought them together in the first place. He demonstrates to them a path, a hope, a vision of the possibility of actually thriving together. To me, Fred is The Relationship Wizard. His ability to save dying relationships are his brilliance and magic. He forged it out of the heartbreak he witnessed countless times in his early years as a traditionally trained marriage counselor, experiencing over and over how that training was grossly inadequate in assisting him to save couples in crisis. He’s a practical man. He knows from hard experience that by the time most couples go to a marriage counselor one or both may be ready to end the relationship and the window of opportunity to save that relationship is now, or never. When it comes to saving a relationship he’s a bulldog. If there is a way to do it, he won’t let go until he finds it. I think his strategies are a gift to couples.” –Joel Roberts, Former Prime Time Host, KABC Radio, Los Angeles, California

I help to address and resolve the following issues. Which of the following describes your situation:

Am I the best one to help save your relationship?

I imagine it’s really hard and maybe a little bit scary for you to decide what marriage counselor to go to. You may feel that marriage counseling is your last hope and you may also know of people who went to a marriage counselor and they felt the marriage counselor did more harm than good.

I’m going to briefly tell you about me and how I work so that you have enough information to determine if I’m the one that’s most likely to be able to help you to save your relationship.

For over 20 years I’ve specialized in saving relationships that were on the verge of ending even when only one person still wanted the relationship to work and even when they had no hope that it could be saved. I am happy to help you to rescue your relationship.

It’s my passion to save relationships, to keep families together and to make the relationship work for both people.

You probably know of people who went to marriage counseling and it wound up ending their relationship.

When a relationship is in crisis, it’s in a very delicate state. Marriage counseling is not neutral. If done correctly it can make the difference between saving your relationship and your relationship ending. If done incorrectly, it can push the relationship over the edge.

All marriage counselors have their biases.

Some marriage counselors think that if a relationship isn’t working, a person should get out. They’ll tend to guide an individual or couple in that direction. I think of them as relationship enders.

In my experience, that first session with a couple, especially when a person has already told their partner they want to break up, is a very delicate, critical time.
As a Relationship Saver, I find that it’s useful to assume that the leaving partner is one step away from leaving for good. If I’m wrong, no harm. If I’m right, then I will proceed with a caution that can help that couple to have a turning point.

What I do in the first session with you:

The first session is what I call the “Relationship Breakthrough Session.”

Here’s what happens in that session. First I want to hear briefly from you where you are right now in the relationship. Because I’ve been doing this for over 20 years, it doesn’t take me long to get enough information to understand what we’re dealing with.

Then, I help you create a vision of how you would like your relationship to be.

Then we look at the obstacles that are keeping that from happening.

I proceed in that first session to give you a step by step plan of the skills and solutions I’ll be giving you to maximize the possibility of making this relationship work for both of you and of keeping your family under one roof.

I’ll end that session by giving you specific next steps you can take to make things better.

Usually, the person that was wanting to end the relationship leaves that session feeling hopeful, because they have begun to see the possibility that with my help this relationship really can work for them.

Can your relationship be saved?

If you’re like many people who’ve contacted me for help, you might be thinking that it’s just too late to save your relationship and that there’s so much accumulated hurt and resentment that you fear it’s beyond saving.

So, can your relationship be saved? In my experience, most relationships end unnecessarily and the breakup could have been prevented with the right kind of help.

If your partner isn’t willing to go to a marriage counselor with you, is your relationship doomed?

Here’s my question for you. How many people in a relationship does it take to save the relationship? Obvious answer, right? It takes two people to save a relationship. Of course. Right?…WRONG! It takes a minimum of one person to rescue a relationship.

In my private practice, with so many of the relationships I’ve helped, including the ones that were in crisis when I first got involved, I’ve only worked with one person. They took what I gave them and successfully stopped their breakup and reconciled their relationship.

I would have been happy to work with them as a couple. It just wasn’t an option because their partner wasn’t willing to join us in the process. I’m a realist. I have a mission to help you to save your relationship and to keep your family under one roof. I work with what I have to work with.

In my 20 plus years as a relationship saving marriage counselor, I have helped to save lots of relationships where only one person got my direct help.

Free in depth first session with me

Again, you are welcome to call me. I’m glad to speak with you and answer any questions you have. If I think from that brief conversation that I’m the best one to help you, I will offer you an in-depth “Relationship Breakthrough Session” with me. It tends to run an hour and fifteen minutes and there is no charge for that session.

If you like what you’re reading then give me a call on my cell: 310-429-3658 or email me at [email protected] or text me.
Please keep in mind that I can communicate with you a lot more effectively by phone than I can by email or texting.

What to do next.

Here’s my first piece of advice to you. If from what you just read you think I might be the best one to help you, call me right now to take the first step. It doesn’t matter what time it is. When I stop working for the day I turn my phone off so you’re not going to wake up myself or my wife. If you call during my work hours and I’m doing a session, it goes right to voice mail so you’re not going to disturb me. DO leave a message.

I will call you back at my first break. I understand and respect the fact that you’re urgently trying to save your relationship and to keep your family together and that you need to make contact with me as soon as possible.

Take Care,

Fred Talisman MFT
Cell: 310-429-3658
[email protected]

PS: When is it too late for a relationship to be saved and when is a relationship definitely over?

In my experience, the one timing when a relationship is definitely over is when the person that wanted to save the relationship gives up. Because, then there is no advocate in the relationship to rescue it. So, weather your partner is willing to go to a marriage counselor with you or wether you are the only one in the relationship who is trying to save it, call me. I will give you my professional opinion if I think I can help you to save it.

Call Me Now For a Free Relationship Breakthrough Session

Call me now on my cell: 310-429-3658
I’m glad to speak with you and answer any questions you have. If I think from that brief conversation that I’m the best one to help you, I will offer you an in-depth free Relationship Breakthrough Session to get you started. I can be reached within 10 minutes on my cell phone 310-429-3658, if I’m not in session. If I’m in session & you leave a message, I’ll call you back on my first break. I understand and respect the fact that you’re urgently trying to save your relationship and to keep your family together and that you need to make contact with me as soon as possible.

Same day appointments available.
Insurance welcome.
Evenings until 10pm & Weekend Appointments available.
Sessions in person or by phone.
[email protected]

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Free Relationship Breakthrough Session and Save Your Relationship Mini E-Course

Are you ready to do what it takes to save your relationship and keep your family together? I have designed a complimentary consultation, The Relationship Breakthrough Session, geared toward exactly that. During this session we will: • Look at where your relationship is now. • Create a sense of clarity about the relationship you really want to have. • Identify the roadblocks that are keeping you from making your relationship work. • I will give you a step by step plan of what it will take to rescue your relationship • Complete the consultation with knowing EXACTLY what to do next to save your relationship and keep your family together. Fill in below to get the following Free package: 1. Free Relationship Breakthrough Session 2. Free Several part “Save Your Relationship E-mini Course” 3. Free Newsletter as a reminder of what to do to stay on course.

Same day appointments available.
Insurance welcome.
Evenings until 10pm & Weekend Appointments available.
Sessions in person or by phone.
[email protected]