Couples Therapy

Feeling Discontented in your Marriage or Romantic Relationship?

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If you’re reading this, you may have reached a point in your relationship, as many people do, where you feel stressed, dissatisfied, and stuck. You may notice that:

  • Communication, sharing, or interaction has dwindled or become problematic

  • You and your partner live like roommates instead of romantic partners

  • Conflicts remain unresolved and extremely frustrating

  • You feel perpetually misunderstood

  • You miss the connection you had in the early period of your life together

  • Fun and humor have become rare occurrences

  • Sex an intimacy are happening less and less

  • Unkindness, disrespect, and sarcasm are coming between you and your partner

  • Distrust and insecurity mark your relationship

  • Your parenting styles are a source of further disagreement

  • Infidelity has done serious relationship damage

How Does Couples Therapy Help?

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When you choose couples therapy, you’re taking the first step towards changing things for the better in your relationship. You’re letting a supportive, knowledgeable, encouraging, curious professional really listen to you and work with you and for you.

Our therapists are trained in both Gottman method couples counseling and Emotion Focused Couples Therapy (EFT), the two couples counseling approaches with the most research support.  We will work together to help you communicate through some of your biggest differences and your most significant conflicts. You’ll learn how to move past anger and blame and to share with your partner in a way that promotes them responding in a caring way.

What do Clients Say?

Couples who have undergone therapy report that they were able to strengthen their relationship, deepen their connection with each other, decrease conflict, and learn new and more positive ways of relating to each other. They report increased understanding of where partners are coming from and how to stay connected during difficult conversations.

Although you may be ready to seek help, you still may have questions or concerns about couples therapy…

 

  • The simple truth is that you can’t afford not to engage in couples therapy. Your relationship is a vital part of your life. Couples therapy can help you keep love and respect paramount in your conversations. It’s a first step toward securing a stronger foundation for your relationship. Couples counseling provides vital time and tools that will serve you well for the life of your relationship.

  • Often, people are afraid to try couples therapy. They’re nervous that they will be shamed and blamed for the issues that they bring to therapy. It’s important to understand that in couples therapy, no one is the “bad guy”. The relationship is the client and the job of your therapist is to work with you to help bring renewal and positive change to this relationship. This involves looking at the way both partners contribute to problematic patterns and what both partners can do to change things in the relationship.

 

Our therapists are skilled and knowledgeable at helping couples resolve conflict and build stronger, healthier, and happier relationships.