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Gottman-certified marriage counselor, pastor

I'm Tom Whitesel, and I help married couples stop having the same fight and feel like a team again.
On paper, I'm a Gottman-certified marriage counselor and an ordained pastor of 43 years, with nearly 100 five-star reviews and over 40 years sitting across from couples.
But here's the thing. I didn't always have this figured out. Early in my own marriage, I was bad at conflict. I had to decide to learn this, on purpose, or I was going to lose what mattered most to me. The method I teach is the one I built to save my own marriage first.
Married 45 years now. That's longer than most of my clients have been alive.
I'm also a man, which matters more than it should in this work. Most husbands don't feel safe in a counselor's office because it turns into a room where they're the problem. That's not how I work. Nobody gets ganged up on in my room.
What I believe: communication was never your problem. The problem is who you turn into in the first three minutes. Fix that, and everything changes.
Stay with me to the end of the workshop and you’ll walk away with the same printable toolkit my private clients use at home…
• The Yellow Lights checklist (the 7 early warning signs of escalation that almost every couple misses)
• The Sixty-Minute Timeout Script (exactly what to say when you need to step away without making it worse)
• The Re-Entry Sentence Bank (the 12 sentences that turn a timeout into a real repair conversation)
This bonus is only released at the very end of the live workshop. There is no replay version. If you want it, you’ll want to be on the call.

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