About Cole Ratcliffe

Cole received his Masters and PhD from Kansas State University in Marriage and Family Therapy. He has been providing therapy for individuals, couples, and families since 2009 and currently teaches full-time at Brigham Young University – Idaho. He also specializes in Discernment Counseling for couples. Discernment counseling helps people decide whether to work on their marriage or continue moving towards divorce. It is short term, and the focus is not on solving marital problems but on seeing if they could potentially be solved. 

B.S. Marriage, Family, Human Development, Brigham Young University, 2008
M.S. Marriage and Family Therapy, Kansas State University, 2011
Ph.D. Marriage and Family Therapy, Kansas State University, 2013 

Click to learn more about Dr. Ratcliffe's specialty, Discernment Counseling, taken from the Minnesota Couples on the Brink Project. It's short term, and the focus is not on necessarily solving marital problems but on seeing if they could potentially be solved.