Couples Counseling
Every couple has a unique dynamic that influences how you show your love, respect, and genuine care for your partner. This unique dynamic will change depending on a wide range of factors. Couples can find themselves frustrated, confused, or concerned when their dynamic becomes strained or challenged. Regardless of the phase your relationship is in, most couples benefit from an opportunity to share issues within a safe place, with an experienced couples therapist, where there is an opportunity to find solutions and build effective skills that lead you two back to one another.
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Relationship Building
The speed that couples move through certain relationship phases depends on your age, financial stability, life circumstances, and spiritual or religious beliefs. Within each phase - there is a dynamic being created that is a blend of your unique personalities, habits, and preferences. Some couples do this naturally and others may have to work through differences slowly in order to achieve one that is healthy.
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Connect intimately
Resolve conflict
Effectively communicate
Spend free time and socialize with family/friends
Solve problems
Determine future plans
Couples seek out counseling for a number of reasons. There doesn't have to be an active conflict or a rupture of trust for a couple to engage in therapy. For a relationship to grow in a healthy direction there must be clear communication about what is happening for each of you personally and what you feel when you are together.
Common Concerns in Couples
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Patterns of unresolved conflicts without forgiveness
Sexless relationships or intimacy satisfaction issues
Infidelity and rebuilding trust
Cohesion in decision-making
Fusing finances or managing money
Ineffective communication styles
How Couples Counseling Works
When your relationship has become stuck, unsatisfying, or contentious couples counseling is an option that offers potential resolve. There are certain aspects of couples counseling that allow for both of you to be heard and feel safe. This includes a licensed and experienced counselor, an inclusive and safe space, and evidence-based therapy techniques and therapy treatment plans, all of which C&T Counseling offers.
Couples counseling begins with an initial session for our therapist to gather your relationship history, current issues to resolve, and any additional historical information that is helpful to frame your issues. Once goals are identified collectively, your therapist will formulate a structured plan that provides a path towards achieving these goals.
Benefits of Couples Counseling
It's important to remain realistic when engaging in couples counseling, as it is reliant on the things you and your partner do outside of the counseling session. Therapy requires vulnerability and a willingness to try new skills and practices within your relationship.
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Address therapy techniques that are working, identify ones that aren't, and find out why.
Learn and practice skills like active listening, tone and delivery of communication, labeling and identifying emotions, and time management.
Rebuild empathy, curiosity, and love for your partner.
Identify individual issues that are contributing to the issues within the relationship.