Couples Therapy
Your spouse is supposed to be your best friend. So what could have happened to change this? There can be a variety of things.
- Intimacy Issues
- Problems Communicating
- Sexual Issues
- Financial Problems
- Family Planning
- Infidelity
- Infertility
- Jealousy
- Relations with In-laws
- Lack of “Us Time”
For those who are married, it can be said that the relationship is the foundation for the entire family. If the marriage is healthy, it tends to show in our children and even our pets. Additionally, there is a world that lies outside our marriages, in our everyday lives that tries to intrude into our home-life. Everyone encounters difficulties on our jobs, with our in-laws or even problems with our children or step-children. These are events that our spouses can usually help us to navigate.
Our spouse is the best one to help us get through these everyday stressors. And this serves to bring a marriage closer together when we have the skills to work together to get through them because, frankly speaking, discussing these problems with friends and family members outside our marriage can often compound these problems.
A Marriage Takes Work to Maintain
Needless to say, like anything that is important, a marriage takes work to maintain. Just like a car requires proper maintenance, or school classes that need to be regularly attended, a marriage needs to be maintained. Nothing worthwhile in life can be meaningful without hard work. A marriage is no exception. Like tools are needed to maintain a car, or books are needed to get us through school, a marriage needs tools and skills to help it run smoothly.
Some of the basic tools in your “marriage kit” would be: the art of compromise, maintaining intimacy, planning and decision-making as a couple and, of course, remembering to have fun with each other.
Just like a musician or an athlete gets better with practice, a marriage gets stronger when both parties can work together to make that happen. A marriage is when two people become one. So, if a marriage is moving in the wrong direction, it takes two people to redirect its path.
We Are Here to Help You Keep Your Marriage Healthy
Our dedicated team is here to help you keep your marriage healthy. If your marriage has gotten off-track, we can help you learn the tools you need to redirect your path from a downward direction to an upward one. When you work together, each day becomes easier. The skills we can help you learn will soon become second nature. Before you know it, you will have your best friend back. The one you fell in love with in the first place.
We can work on
Intimacy Issues
Problems Communicating
Sexual Issues
Financial Problems
Family Planning
Infidelity
Jealousy
Relations with In-laws
Lack of “Us Time”
We can work specifically with you to work through relationship or communication problems and create emotional closeness. Our therapists will guide you to understand and meet the emotional needs of your partner, learn tools to negotiate differences, work through conflict in healthy ways, and maintain deeper levels of intimacy and closeness.
Per-marriage or premarital counseling can help dating or engaged partners to resolve differences and understand their partner better before marriage so that they have the tools to create a happy and healthy marriage from the start.
We have helped couples:
Prepare for marriage with premarital counseling
Resolve relationship conflict
Learn and practice healthy boundaries
Find support preceeding, during, and after divorce
Remain friends throughout and after divorce
Navigate co-parenting
Heal grief and loss
Address substance abuse and addictions
Experience expert guidance in navigating communication challenges, relationship conflicts, parenting issues, and divorce support to foster healthier relationships.
"The way you help heal the world is you start with your own family."
— MOTHER THERESA —
Therapy Outcomes
Here's a sneak peak of some of the things we may talk about and accomplish together in therapy
Learn about how couples function in general, your own healthy and unhealthy patterns, and how to express healthy boundaries.
Learn strategies to make "us time" an integral part of your relationship.
Identify sources of conflict or anxiety in your marriage. Develop strategies to resolve them.
Find courage to grieve and move forward after traumatic events or loss. Experience increased closeness and heal chasms caused by grief.
Navigate transitional phases such as becoming parents, becoming empty nesters, or joining together two families.
Discover increased empathy for your partner and their experiences.
Explore feelings of anger in healthy ways, learning how to deal with anger and temper without lashing out at your partner.
For dating partners—resolve worries and fears concerning marriage to begin your new life together on a solid foundation of communication and emotional connection.