My husband would prefer to see a male marriage counselor. But wouldn a male marriage counselor take my husbands side, and/or not understand how a woman feels?
Marriage counselors avoid taking sides because it is counterproductive to long-term counseling success. That said, if I feel one partner needs to make a change in a particular area, I’ll say so. I spent a year as a volunteer counselor at a domestic violence shelter working almost exclusively with women. That experience plus my time working with couples makes me confident that I am capable of seeing things empathetically from a female perspective.
