Restoring Hope

A trusted model for Christian marriage counselors, therapists, and others seeking to help marriages in distress.Serving more than ten thousand couples over a span of more than twenty years, the team at Focus on the Family's Hope Restored: A Marriage Intensive Experience has developed a powerful set of tools for conducting marital therapy. Focus Marital Therapy (FMT) integrates sound theology with research-based principles from the behavioral sciences. The results speak for themselves. Since 2003, 99 percent of those surveyed afterward have reported that they would recommend the program to other couples. Of those surveyed, 80 percent report still being married two years after their intensive counseling.Now the proven strategies and tools used in the Hope Restored program are documented in this authoritative guide. Restoring Hope allows therapists, pastors, and counselors to apply the Focus Marital Therapy model so that hurting couples can learn to communicate effectively, rebuild trust, and repair past hurts.