Christ and the Church: marriage counseling

Pondering the ideas of Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy (developed by Dr. Sue Johnson, author of Hold Me Tight), I have started to wonder what ideas might be translated into our faith relationships with Christ. The Bible uses the marriage metaphor over and over to describe the relationship between Christ and the Church. Why not use the helpful truths of marriage counseling to help our relationships with Christ?

This came into my head first as one of those lame jokes that only you would understand. Christ and the Church in couples therapy. Haha.

But then I started thinking. In my old small group of 17 year old high school girls, they would bring up a question that would stump me: what do to in your relationship with God when you don't feel like he's there and don't really care about it? If the problem just included the first part - not feeling like God's there - but you DID care about it, there's a whole range of counsel a youth leader could provide: the promises of God in scripture, the evidence of his care for you in your life, etc.