Couples therapy focuses on building healthy, productive patterns of communication that can endure the ups and downs of life. Using an active, compassionate approach for each member of the couple and assist clients in developing the skills and self-knowledge necessary to build intimate and supportive relationships.
Couples therapy may be helpful to you if you are:
- engaged or considering a long-term commitment
- stuck in unproductive patterns of communication that leave you both frustrated or hopeless
- frequently fighting without resolution
- working to rebuild trust after emotional or sexual infidelity
- disagreeing on issues of money, sex, career issues, family, or household responsibilities
- recalibrating the relationship after children arrive or leave
- needing a tune-up to bring renewed closeness and passion
Counseling can also be helpful to couples who are not in crisis but did not grow up with role models for happy and healthy relationships. In some cases, couples issues may best be worked on in individual therapy.