Communication breakdown in relationships can feel stifling, confusing, and chronic.
Often unspoken assumptions about your partner/s intentions leads to hurt and resentment and a stalemate between partners. We all want to think we are mind readers; we are not. The answer to this problem is open, honest, authentic communication.
In couples therapy, I will help you uncover what you truly want to say and find a way to discover your partner’s honest intentions.
When life gets stressful, it can bring on times of frequent conflict and detachment. I provide a safe environment, allowing couples to learn different communication methods that help them learn how to effectively articulate their needs and goals.
You and your partner(s) can learn how to love one another more deeply, and with better support (even through the dark, stressful times).
Why consider couples therapy?
I offer couples therapy to those who are married, partnered, living together or those couples who are contemplating living together or future commitments.
General couples psychotherapy is an important process when a couple feel like they cannot resolve their differences without escalation, long periods of time with icy conversations and those who feel like they’re just going through the motions.
Couples therapy can be short term (a few weeks to 3 months) or run longer periods depending on the severity and the level of deterioration in the relationship.
The goal of couples therapy is not dictated to a couple but rather guided by the couple themselves. There are times that either a couple, or one partner decides they are not willing to continue in the relationship. We feel it is our responsibility to offer support to the couple.
I regard the couple as a system in which we look at all partners as part of that system.
This means we don’t see one partner as the “cause” of the problem. While there may be couples in which one partner is challenged by certain diagnoses or conditions, our aim is to help your partner system discover the causes, weaknesses and strengths that can lead to a new, more cohesive, loving, and growth-oriented relationship.
Couples therapy can help you rebuild your relationship or come to the decision that separating might be a better choice.
Couples therapy can help you understand your relationship better, learn better communication techniques, discuss future plans and make well thought-out decisions.
What we can work on in Relationship Therapy…
Common Issues Treated in Couples Counseling
- Pre-marriage or pre-cohabitating counseling to collaboratively create a relationship contract that is based on shared goals, expectations and hopes
- Learning better communication skills with partner/spouse for stronger problem solving
- Need for enhanced communication with partner/spouse for stronger connection
- Gridlock over difficult issues, resulting in a need for more effective conflict resolution skills
- Difficulty maintaining intimacy and closeness as a couple
- Recovery from infidelity and the reestablishment of trust and intimacy
- Adaption to blended family dynamics when co-parenting children from previous relationships
- Coping with the emotional toll that infertility and necessary treatments can cause
