Meet Us at the Wildwood Wedding Expo!

Sunday, October 26, 2025 | 12:00–4:00 PM
Wildwood Convention Center, Wildwood, NJ

A Better Life Therapy is excited to join New Jersey’s best wedding show, hosted by Planit Expo at the Wildwood Convention Center! This event brings together the region’s top wedding professionals — from florists and photographers to planners and travel experts — all just steps from the beach and boardwalk.

Stop by our booth to learn how premarital counseling can help you build a strong foundation for your marriage. Our licensed therapists specialize in Prepare/Enrich, Gottman Method, RLT, and EFT approaches that help couples strengthen communication, deepen connection, and navigate the transitions of engagement and early marriage.

Enjoy live entertainment, door prizes, and a chance to win gift cards and honeymoon experiences — all while planning your “I do.”

Treating Stressed Out Couples: Interventions to Help Partners Navigate Stress and Improve Their Relationship

As a couples therapist, you’ve likely worked with clients who are either withdrawn or too dysregulated to engage in productive conversations. Sessions may start with frazzled, angry, or numb partners, and just as progress begins, emotions escalate or shut down entirely.

Outside of therapy, these couples are often overwhelmed—juggling parenting, work demands, caregiving, finances, and health concerns. The weight of these stressors seeps into their relationships, making it even harder to communicate and connect.

Navigating Stress in Community Care: Tools for Supporting Individuals, Families, and Relationships

with the Western Tidewater Community Services Board

This training, conducted by Elizabeth Earnshaw, LMFT explores how stress impacts human functioning—physiologically, emotionally, and relationally—and how helping professionals can better support individuals and families experiencing chronic stress. Participants will deepen their understanding of the ways stress manifests in the body and how it alters behavior, communication, and engagement with others and with community services. Using Bronfenbrenner’s Ecological Systems Theory as a framework, participants will also examine how stress operates within nested systems—from the individual and family outward to community and institutional contexts. Through a combination of psychoeducation, reflection, and applied discussion, this workshop provides concrete tools to improve relational effectiveness, reduce escalation, and foster greater empathy and regulation when working with clients in high-stress environments.

Visit A Better Life Therapy at the Motivated Mommies Event!

We’re thrilled to join Motivated Mommies, a South Jersey community that uplifts and connects women through encouragement, resources, and empowerment. (motivatedmommiesnj.com)

We will be a part of the amazing swag bag by offering ABL giveaways, including free relationship books, discount codes for therapy services, and a chance to win a free relationship assessment with one of our licensed therapists!

Whether you’re navigating marriage, parenting, or simply working to build healthier communication and balance, our team is here to support you every step of the way.

Navigating Stress, Connection, & the Transition to Parenthood
Elizabeth Earnshaw, LMFT
📅 March 21, 2025 | 3:00–5:00 PM
📍 Presented through Psychotherapy Networker | Session 505
🎓 CEU Credits Available

Join Elizabeth Earnshaw, LMFT, for an engaging and practical workshop designed to help clinicians support couples as they navigate the stress and disconnection that often accompany the transition to parenthood. Participants will explore how modern demands, emotional overload, and shifting identities impact relationships and gain actionable tools to help couples re-center love and connection amid real-life pressures.

This training integrates evidence-based concepts to provide an accessible framework for working with dual-career, overstretched couples.

✨ Register through Psychotherapy Networker (Session 505) to reserve your spot and earn CEU credit!