Conflict and Communication in Marriage
About Amy Elliot
A Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, Amy provides counseling for individuals, couples, and families. She assists clients as they work through pain from the past, make sense of their current situations, and determine what they would like their future to be. She also helps couples in: preparing for marriage, strengthening marriages and families as they grow and change, and restoring hope in struggling relationships. Amy specializes in EMDR and works extensively with trauma, anxiety, and depression.
Amy graduated from Princeton University with a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology. Following a spiritual call, she obtained a Master’s degree in Theology from Andover Newton Theological Seminary. After more than a decade of working with high risk youth, families, and the systems serving them, Amy returned to graduate school and completed a Master’s degree in Marriage and Family Therapy at San Diego State University. She has been practicing in the San Diego area ever since. Amy is a member of the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (CAMFT).
Amy has a private practice San Diego, California where she lives with her husband and two children.
About Mike and Claire Kuypers
Mike and Claire Kuypers have been a part of the Newbreak church family since 2005 and have a passionate heart for serving the Lord together through their God-designed purpose. Mike and Claire met in San Diego in 1991 while Mike was beginning his Navy career and Claire was starting out as a cardiac nurse. They were next door neighbors that quickly realized that God had a much larger plan for them. Married in 1993, they spent a decade serving in various military installations around the world before settling back in San Diego in 2003. Part of the original launch team for the Scripps Ranch campus in 2007, Mike and Claire have been active life group and ministry leaders and have a particular passion for encouraging couples in marriage and parenting. Their marriage mission statement is “to mentor and encourage marriages and families to heal, grow, and fully live as servant leaders.” They are committed to leading marriage small groups, participating in mission trips, and actively supporting and nurturing the marriages of their children and others through intentional connection. A common theme in their own marriage and small group ministry is “celebrating differences.” Although differences can often be stumbling blocks for relationships, they believe that God created our differences to be complementary strengths that make us better equipped for His work in the world. Mike and Claire are blessed with three children, Becca (25), Nathan (24), and Andrew (19) who are all living out their lives serving the Lord in their own unique ways.