Couples therapy nurtures your relationship with empathy, repair and connection.
Repeated conflicts. Difficulties in communication. Mistrust and/or infidelity. Intense fighting…
These may be a few of the issues spurring frustrations, anger, and hurt — leaving you and your partner feeling unsupported, resentful, and alone.
Couples therapy is a safe space where both partners can give voice to their perspective and feel understood. Through guided reflection, deep listening, and the practice of emotional regulation, couples develop mutual understanding and greater capacity to communicate.
The result of good couples therapy fosters connection, repairs old wounds, and helps increase compassion, intimacy and closeness in the relationship.
Common issues that bring couples to therapy:
Difficulties in communication and understanding one another's needs
Trust and/or infidelity issues
Intense conflict and fighting
Premarital counseling
Sex and intimacy, money, parenting issues
Destructive or harmful behaviors from one or both partners
What can make a marriage [or relationship] work is surprisingly simple. Happily married couples aren’t smarter, richer, or psychologically more astute than others. But in their day-to-day lives they have hit upon a dynamic that keeps their negative thoughts and feelings about each other (which all couples have) from overwhelming their positive ones. They have what I call an emotionally intelligent marriage.
— The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work by John Gottman and Nan Silver
Benefits of couples counseling
- Improved communication
- Greater trust and intimacy
- Deepened understanding of self and partner
- Reduction of stress and conflict within the relationship
- Improved coping skills when conflict arises
- Increased empathy and ability to meet each other’s needs