Healthy Relationships Help Us Heal and Grow
Have you lost that loving feeling? Are you struggling to connect with your partner? Intimate relationships are a complex dynamic that can have ebbs and flows, ups and downs. Couples therapy is a type of psychotherapy that helps people in a romantic relationship build insight and resolve conflict within the relationship. Couples therapy looks at the relationship as a system rather than one individual person. The target of change is the relationship and not one person although we acknowledge that someone's behavior could be problematic. The therapist will try to understand the baseline functioning of a partnership and analyze interactions, reactions and patterns within a relationship.
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Develop healthy communication patterns between you and your partner
Process infidelity and mistrust and develop the foundation of trust
Identify healthy emotional coping skills and conflict resolution skills
Set life goals and future plans that you and your partner agree upon
Embrace differences and uniqueness that you and your partner have
Improve the decision making process in a collaborative manner
We hope to find the root cause of issues within a partner system, identify strengths and weaknesses and help figure out the driving force behind conflict. Has infidelity, betrayal , communication or differences caused issues with your significant other? The common issues in couples therapy include communication, financial issues, intimacy issues, affairs, infidelity, different perspectives /worldviews, parenting or staying together for the wrong reason, emotional distance, other family members or in-laws and life transitions which can redefine roles in a partnership. Transition periods such as becoming parents, getting married, new careers, becoming empty nesters and illness can all change roles and create conflict. In couples therapy, in order to repair a system, we require a no secrets policy. Secrets can keep partners from true intimacy. A therapist can help a person reveal a secret such as infidelity or addiction to a partner. Oftentimes the therapist will assign tasks to enact outside of the therapy session. We invite people of all race/gender/orientation to couples therapy and at every stage.
We use evidence based practices such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Emotion Focused Therapy, EMDR, etc. to assist you in getting your relationship back on track. We can help you build your rapport with your partner. Therefore, your relationship the two of you possess contributes to your emotional and physical well-being. We work with you to create a healthier relationship that can offer the joy and connection you seek.
Book your free 20 minute consultation to find out how we can work together to build a healthy relationship.