COUPLES THERAPY / MARRIAGE COUNSELING
Romantic relationships provide such a sense of fulfillment in our lives. The feeling of being with someone who truly connects with us, understands us, and has our best interest in mind is difficult to match. We often find our relationship with a significant other satisfies many of our needs.
As is natural, interactional patterns emerge over time where each person develops a specific role in the relationship and the couple responds to eachother in the same ways over the same issues. Sometimes it may feel like a broken record is playing and you are stuck repeating the same track of miscommunication, hurt, and distrust. You may get bored staying stuck in the repetitiveness of your relationship and fantasize about a relationship with someone full of the passion you once had with your partner. Maybe your partner has been unfaithful. As more time goes by, the love song that once made you swoon over your companion deteriorates.
As is natural, interactional patterns emerge over time where each person develops a specific role in the relationship and the couple responds to eachother in the same ways over the same issues. Sometimes it may feel like a broken record is playing and you are stuck repeating the same track of miscommunication, hurt, and distrust. You may get bored staying stuck in the repetitiveness of your relationship and fantasize about a relationship with someone full of the passion you once had with your partner. Maybe your partner has been unfaithful. As more time goes by, the love song that once made you swoon over your companion deteriorates.
Relationships are complicated. They require a great deal of self-awareness and constructive communication, which is not always there when challenging situations come up. We all carry unresolved issues that can affect how we react at times and couples can fall into undesirable patterns.
Problem patterns of interaction may include:
It can be a vicious cycle hard to get out of.
HOW WE HELP
THE COMMITMENT OF TIME THAT IT TAKES TO LEARN AND PRACTICE THESE SKILLS IS THE GIFT YOU GIVE YOURSELVES TOWARD A MORE MEANINGFUL, LONG-LASTING, AND FULFILLING RELATIONSHIP.
Problem patterns of interaction may include:
- getting into the same silly arguments over and over again
- talking to each other with disrespect
- escalating into fights
- blaming the other person
- attacking or criticizing the other person with over-generalizations
- avoiding talking about important issues
It can be a vicious cycle hard to get out of.
HOW WE HELP
- We provide the necessary coaching to help couples recognize their problem patterns of interaction and improve communication.
- Therapy is the space for couples to address the underlying issues that are causing anger and resentment in the relationship.
- Therapy helps couples find NEW meaning in their relationship after life transitions or hurtful events.
- Improving a relationship takes work. It requires not only self-improvement, but also more awareness of your partner's feelings. We make sure to validate each person's feelings and thoughts while helping the couple to clearly identify their goals. Couples therapy is for those who are willing to learn how to overcome their problems, move out of their distress, and build a relationship that has connection, intimacy, and trust.
THE COMMITMENT OF TIME THAT IT TAKES TO LEARN AND PRACTICE THESE SKILLS IS THE GIFT YOU GIVE YOURSELVES TOWARD A MORE MEANINGFUL, LONG-LASTING, AND FULFILLING RELATIONSHIP.
IT IS POSSIBLE to renew your relationship by working with the professionals at Happy Home Therapeutic Services who are trained in relationship therapy. Utilizing research-based interventions and a relational, systemic approach to therapy, we are able to join with couples and discover what their specific goals are. We view relationship issues from an interactional, reciprocal perspective. We are careful to validate both perspectives of the couple and discover how you can work together to strengthen your relationship and rebuild trust through improving communication and taking action. Should a couple decide it is best not to continue the relationship, we also assist with separation and co-parenting if there are children involved. We work with a diverse array of clientele from different cultural and religious backgrounds.
Couples Therapy helps with:
- Conflict Management
- Dealing with outside sources of stress
- Communication issues
- Infidelity/Broken Trust
- Transitional Periods (marriage, baby, etc.)
- Pre-Marital Counseling
- Emotional/Sexual Intimacy
- Trauma
- Parenting/Co-Parenting
- Separation/Divorce
- Family-of-origin issues
As more research is being done on the efficacy of couples therapy, awareness is growing of the benefits of seeking professional help early on when issues begin to come up. This requires you being more attentive to how you and your partner communicate, which you may not always have time for. A step in the direction of strengthening your relationship is prioritizing your relationship and making time for the seemingly little things. Taking care of your relationship with your significant other requires paying attention and effectively communicating every day. That is not to say couples who effectively communicate do not argue. In fact, Dr. John Gottman, relationship expert, states that even though arguing is a common form of communication in couple relationships, what is important is HOW couples argue and what happens AFTER they argue. Utilizing our training in relationship therapy, including Gottman interventions, we can help get you back on track for a happy, long-lasting relationship.
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