So far we have examined and compared your personalities, looked at your symptoms and how well you are functioning as individuals, and considered your spirituality or relationship with God. By this point you should also know what patient category you fall in and which one your spouse falls in if they are also in treatment with me. If you both are in patient category number one, which is the best category for treatment prognosis meaning shortest length of time to completion you may want to consider working on marital as well as individual issues.

I would like you to give some consideration to whether you want to work individually or jointly in session and what issues you want to focus on first. We can work on marital issues either way, however, if we are going to focus mainly on individual issues we should work with either or both of you individually until you are ready to work as a couple.