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Building Healthy Relationships Specialty Consultation

Benefit overview

Building Healthy Relationships is a free education-based consultation designed to strengthen your relationships with family, friends and others. This series of personalized coaching sessions is tailored to help you set goals and strengthen your communication skills.

How this benefit helps

Everyone can benefit from boosting a relationship or improving communication. Perhaps you’re a parent who wants to create a stronger bond with your child. Or maybe you’re looking for ways to reconnect with your family after deployment.

This consultation offers a variety of tracks customized to different relationship dynamics. Your consultant will help you identify the track or tracks that are right for you. The personalized coaching sessions, educational tools, resources and empowering skills will help you be your best.

If one or more individuals do not speak English, your consultant can facilitate a three-way call for simultaneous language interpretation.

  • Strengthening the Couple Connection. Work with a consultant alone or with your partner. Get educational resources, guidance on common issues for military couples and tools to support strong relationships.
  • Healthy Parent-Child Connections. Identify relationship goals and get education and resources to enhance your parent-child connection. Children may attend sessions with their parent as appropriate.
  • Communication Refreshers. Receive educational webinars, inventories and services to improve your communication skills. Work with a consultant alone or with your partner. This is an excellent path for those seeking to enhance communication with a spouse, colleague or family member.
  • Staying Connected While Away. Identify goals and resources to assist with emotional coping and keeping connected during deployment and other duty-related separations. With this track, a consultant helps service members or adult loved ones.
  • Reconnecting After Deployment. Get support for the period after deployment when a major shift can occur for the entire family. This track helps service members and/or family members identify goals and provides materials to ease stress and shape resiliency.
  • Blended Family. Learn to manage new family dynamics when partners have children from previous relationships. This track focuses on co-parenting as a way to build a solid leadership unit for the military family. This is an excellent path for couples who are introducing civilian children to military life.
  • MilSpouse Toolkit. Learn about military culture and how to navigate resources. This track can help new spouses who may feel disconnected from their family and want to identify a support system in their new community. It provides resources to help new and current military spouses develop coping skills and adjust to MilLife.
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Find additional tips and resources for every stage of your relationship on the Re The We page.

How to access this benefit

Trained, knowledgeable Military OneSource consultants are available 24/7. Since this consultation is available by both phone and video, you can start anytime. Call 800-342-9647 or start a live chat to schedule an appointment with a Building Healthy Relationships consultant. Living abroad? View calling options.

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