Counseling for Couples
Seeking to strengthen your relationship and resolve conflicts? In couples therapy you will learn better ways of communicating, setting boundaries, and supporting each other. Partners will work to break down old, unhealthy patterns and build stronger connections by expressing feelings, practical skill building and creative interventions using a mind-body approach.
Do you feel like you are having the same fight over and over again with no resolution in sight? Perhaps, it feels more like you are living with a roommate than a partner. You remember when you first started dating when everything felt so right and are wondering what happened. Sometimes, you don’t even recognize the person you fell in love with. Does any of this sound familiar?
Relationships are HARD, but you CAN DO HARD THINGS.
When the road gets bumpy
When you bring two people together with different experiences, opinions, and personalities to create a unified life, there are bound to be bumps in the road. Sometimes, these bumps turn into potholes or even sinkholes that keep getting bigger. In relationships, we often get stuck in these holes because even though they are unpleasant, they are comfortable or easier.
In couples therapy, we will dive deep into the holes i.e (negative patterns that are keeping you stuck) and work together on creating healthier ways or relating. We will explore your early attachments and history of relationships to help you better understand where you have been and how you got here.
There is hope ahead
Perhaps you want to communicate with your partner and express your needs without it ending in a fight. Maybe you want to rekindle that initial connection, or maybe you want help figuring out whether you should stay together or break up.
Whether you are struggling with regaining trust after infidelity, having a hard time managing co-parenting responsibilities, working through a difficult life transition, or in a rut and want to infuse some life after back into the relationship, I’m here to help.
My role is not to solve all your problems for you or even tell you whether to break up or stay together, but rather to help you learn and practice better communication skills so that you can solve your own problems and have a healthy relationship again.
What do sessions look like?
During sessions, I will use a mixture of talk therapy with experiential, practical skill building and creative interventions. This could look like joint breathing, guided meditations, journaling, exploring movement together, expressing feelings through art, or role playing a scenario and practicing an alternative ending. I rely on EFT (Emotionally focused therapy), Gottman techniques, trauma informed therapy, and a mind-body approach with dance/movement therapy interventions for an integrative experience.
One of the goals is to help you better understand your self and your partner so that you can both grow and change together. I will work on helping you build a culture of appreciation for each other and we will practice effective communication strategies.
I’m not sure I’m ready to open up
That is totally understandable! It can be difficult to share personal details with a complete stranger but it can be really helpful to have an unbiased third party to listen, reflect, and guide you with no judgment.
If we need couples therapy, does that mean that our relationship will fail?
Absolutely not! It means that you are ready to make changes to make things better and clarify what you want for your future.
You deserve to feel happy and fulfilled in your relationship and you deserve to have your needs met! If you are ready to take steps to improving your relationship, please reach out to schedule a FREE 15 minute phone consultation.