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Council for Relationships, a preeminent non-profit counseling, education and research center, was founded in 1932 as Marriage Council of Philadelphia, and remains the oldest relationship counseling and training center in the country. We provide services for individuals, couples, children and families at fourteen locations throughout the Delaware Valley. 

Council for Relationships' diverse staff specializes in areas such as:

• couples/marital therapy 
• anger management 
• anxiety 
• depression 
• separation/divorce, blended families, parenting, co-parenting after divorce 
• issues related to gender roles 
• LGBT concerns 
• sex therapy, sex addiction

Our staff includes top psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers, other mental health providers and clergy. We offer our counseling services on a sliding fee basis to individuals, couples, children and families in hopes of bringing happier and healthier lives to our clients. We also offer a variety of skills-based relationship educational programs on such topics as:

• Anger Management 
• Couples Communication 
• Relationship Skills 
• Sexual Enrichment 
• Life Skills for Teens 
• Co-Parenting After Divorce 
• Support Groups 

Council for Relationships is proud to partner with the following organizations:

• AAMFT
• African American Healthy Marriage Initiative
• American Red Cross
• Boys and Girls Club
• Coalition for Marriage, Couple & Family Education
• EducationWorks
• Esperanza
• Family Forum
• Hispanic Clergy of Philadelphia
• MS Society
• Operation Home and Healing
• People's Emergency Center
• The Philadelphia Mayor's Office of Community Services
• Planned Parenthood
• Project H.O.M.E.
• Teach for America
• The Consortium
• The Liberty Center
• Thomas Jefferson University
• Salvation Army
• University of Pennsylvania's Education Opportunity Center