Ross J Robert

read moreAnchor Counseling serves Central Kentucky with offices in both Lexington and Flemingsburg. We provide counseling for individuals in stress. We help couples who have concerns about their relationship and who want to learn how to communicate in a more loving way. We help adolescents with behavioral problems become more mature and responsible. Our marriage counseling is faith-based, but we welcome clients from all faiths and even those who have no religious beliefs. If you are unsure about whether Leah Pugh, our counselor, would be a good fit to help you, please use the request a free thirty minute consultation to get better acquainted with her.

read moreOur counselors Licensed Professional Counselor, with several years experience helping individuals, couples and families. Our counselors have extensive experience working with families. Before joining Anchor Counseling we worked as counselors for children in the Kentucky Impact Program. Our counselors became the supervisor of the program succeeded in expanding the program in less than two years from one serving 125 families to one serving over 175 families.

read moreIf it has been a long time since you really enjoyed your marriage, call Dr. Ross, who has over forty years personal experience in a marriage with the same woman and over twenty years marriage counseling experience. He can help you rediscover your first love.

read moreWhen you are stuck in a difficult life situation, it can be difficult to see a way out. Counseling or psychotherapy with a qualified, experienced therapist can help you understand the nature of your problems. It can expand your insight into alternative perspectives on your problems. More importantly therapy helps you perceive alternative, more creative ways of responding to your problems. There is always more than one way to skin a cat. All counselors must have your informed consent before they begin to work with you.

read moreThe importance of the nature of couple relationships for their overall health has been widely documented. For example, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has this to say about the influence of marriage on mental health: A happy marriage may provide substantial emotional benefits. For many people, marriage creates an important sense of identity and self-worth (Gove et al. 1990). Moreover, a spouse may provide emotional intimacy and support, fulfilling an essential human need for connection.

read moreThe profession of counseling and psychotherapy has only recently recognized the importance of spirituality for human life. There are many people who are like the woman whom Jesus met at a well in ancient Samaria. This woman had been rather unsuccessful in all of her intimate relationships. She had been married five times and when she met Jesus, she was cohabiting with a sixth man. Jesus analyzed her as a very thirsty woman whose thirst could not be satisfied by any mere human being. But, he told her, "if you would ask me, I can give you water so you will never thirst again."