Couples Therapy
Couples therapy is the practice of counseling a married or committed couple to improve communication, manage conflict, or address any other issues that might be interfering with your relationship.
Couples therapy can be beneficial for many reasons, depending on your relationship situation and needs. Here are a few:
1. Your constant battles with your partner are causing immense emotional pain for both of you.
This can be caused by a variety of issues, from infidelity or lack of trust to financial struggles. A qualified therapist can assist you in working through these underlying problems so that you can repair the harm done by the past, regain trust, and set new boundaries so your relationship can flourish.
2. You desire to strengthen the emotional bond with your significant other.
Relationship therapists can also assist you in honing communication skills and learning how to express yourself effectively when things don’t go as planned in a relationship.
3. You require assistance in processing a traumatic experience in your relationship.
Couple therapy is a comprehensive field that encompasses various theoretical models and approaches to promote couple health, love, and connection. Each approach emphasizes its own theory on how couples can reach these desired outcomes (e.g., growing a friendship; cultivating intimacy; integrating sexuality into the relationship; or maintaining or creating stability and order within relationships).
Couple therapies generally aim to reduce distress and promote couple wellbeing. However, some are tailored towards specific issues or individual problems like posttraumatic stress disorder.