One of my reoccurring characters is Dr. Walton, a marriage counselor. I tried to make him the opposite of a stereotypical marriage counselor by making him a bro.
In the first story he appears, the counseling session takes place on a rooftop half court where the husband and therapist play one-on-one with the wife to the side (not the center of attention) while the three discuss the couple’s marital issues. Through the game, Dr. Walton is able to evaluate and judge the husband’s character first-hand based on the husband’s choices & actions during the play instead of being misdirected by the wife’s biased words.
I also had a story in which the wife, husband, and the husband’s mistress appeared in the same therapy session. Dr. Walton had them play a three-way version of the Newlywed Game gameshow as the crux of the session.
Dr. Walton is also the author of an instructional pamphlet “How to Spank Your Wife”. While a joke on my part, it also explores on-going mental health issues caused by not accepting past misdeeds as a consequence of feeling as if never having been punished sufficiently. By accepting a just and measured punishment from a trusted loved one the afflicted person can accept and move on without unending guilt and self-punishment. The means is symbolic not prescriptive; plus, a mockery of the 50 Shades fangirls.
Dr Walton is my go-to-therapist character when I want to add something outrageous and funny to a story about marital discord.
He is one of my few male characters with a beard as the descriptive model I started with was 70s Bill Walton of the Trailblazers. Having a 7+ foot ginger marriage counselor just struck me as humorous.
Jaycee Woods 
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