BACKGROUND

Dr. Steve Call is a clinical psychologist specializing in marriage counseling. He is also the author of Reconnect: tools and insights for cultivating meaningful connection in your marriage. Over his twenty years of working with couples, he has gained significant insight into what contributes to a married couple’s distress. His writing and his professional therapeutic work offer expert guidance to couples seeking reconnection and meaningful connection. His work with couples provides insight, awareness, and understanding so that hopeful change can occur.

Steve also teaches masters-level counseling students at the Seattle School of Theology and Psychology in Seattle, Washington. Steve enjoys playing on his farm and fly-fishing remote rivers in Montana in his spare time.

ABOUT US

Lisa and Steve have been married for nearly forty years and have three children and three grandchildren. Lisa is the founder and director of Farmhouse Montessori and has achieved Level 1 and Level 2 Certification in Narrative-Focused Trauma Care through The Allender Center. She is currently enrolled in Level III and actively leading Story Groups. Together, Lisa and Steve enjoy hosting Marriage Story Intensives, spending time with their family, and exploring the beaches of the Oregon Coast.

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Resources

Bringing Play & Story Back to Marriage

\We're often so quick to grab our phones, work the extra hours, and totally forget about the best reasons for marriage, healing and play together. Sometimes there are deeper roots of connection we've lost or never really had and sometimes it's because we've just lost sight of what's really going to refresh us both as a couple and individually. Dr. Steve and Lisa Call of the Reconnect Institute, 3-4 Glow pairing and a beautiful heart dyad, help us to reconnect to one another's hearts in beautiful ways.

Engaging Triggers in Marriage

What follows is both a humorous and deeply insightful conversation. Triggers can undermine a marriage relationship as a couple often does not have language or context to understand what provoked their partner, or how to engage one another after someone is triggered.

THE ALLENDER CENTER

Connection in Marriage During a Pandemic

Continuing to talk about the impact of the pandemic on relationships, Dr. Dan Allender and Rachael Clinton Chen invite Dr. Steve Call into a conversation about the impact of COVID-19 on marriage. We do not approach this topic lightly—we know there is much heartache and brokenness in many homes. Marriage itself is full of complexity and possibility. We hope you hear encouragement, vulnerability, and playfulness as Steve invites us to hear how tension and conflict are created, how increased exposure can lead to shame, and the beauty couples can offer one another when they remind each other what is true.

THE ALLENDER CENTER

Reconnection in Marriage, Part Two

This week Dan continues his conversation with Dr. Steve Call, a therapist and Associate Professor of Counseling Psychology at The Seattle School, about Steve’s new book, Reconnect: Insights and Tools for Cultivating Meaningful Connection in Your Marriage, and how unaddressed hurt and shame can stifle meaningful connection.

THE ALLENDER CENTER

Reconnection in Marriage, Part One

This week Dan dives into a new series with his friend and colleague Dr. Steve Call, a therapist and Associate Professor of Counseling Psychology at The Seattle School, who has just published a new book, Reconnect: Insights and Tools for Cultivating Meaningful Connection in Your Marriage. Reconnect offers an insightful, practical overview of findings drawn from Steve’s own experiences in marriage and his years of therapeutic practice and of teaching others to work with couples and families.