Services for Couples
If you’re wondering “Should we get couples counseling?”, you’re not alone. Nearly every couple has problems at one time or another. Getting therapy to improve relationships can contribute to a content future that is shared with a partner.
Our couples counseling and marriage therapy services are available to married and non-married, LGBTQIA, and same-sex couples. We offer counseling services for:
Relationships
Pre-Marital
Marriages
Ethical Non-Monogamy
After the affair
Substance Use and Codependency
Mild to Chronic Mental Health
Science-Based Techniques
We give couples proven evidence-based tools to break harmful patterns and develop healthier verbal and non-verbal interactions. By changing harmful behaviors to healthier ones, disagreements can be resolved with less hurt, anger, and resentment.
Repairing your relationship restores closeness and allows feelings for one another to re-emerge.
You’ll get plenty of practical strategies that can be used immediately, including:
Active Listening
Mindful Communication
Fair Fighting
Conflict Resolution
Letting go of Resentment
These are proven, research-based methods to help couples reconnect. With practice, these lead to better ways of resolving differences and builds goodwill within a relationship.
These techniques work in all kinds of situations, not only with your spouse or partner. These can be used with any close personal relationship.
How can I tell if my relationship is in trouble?
It’s natural to feel frustrated or angry with your partner. And a certain amount of disagreement or arguing is natural.
But the love between a couple can erode over time when the relationship is constantly under stress from:
Constant arguing
Arguments that don’t resolve, but repeat
Resentments that surface over and over
Lingering deeply hurt feelings or empathic breach
Personal attacks
Most Common Relationship and Marriage Complaints
We only talk about the kids and the bills – we don’t enjoy each other anymore.
We don’t fight that much, but I don’t feel happy.
We used to be best friends but now we fight all the time.
I feel like I married a child who takes no responsibility .
I don’t feel like we’re “in love” anymore .
I don’t feel safe and secure in my relationship anymore .
I feel smothered and have no space of my own .
I feel like we’re just roommates .
I have my life, they have theirs .
They don’t listen to me, just talk over my concerns .
They keep promising they’ll do better, and start using again .
They say they are taking medication as prescribed, but I know the signs .
Our sex life is vanishing or I feel like we’re experiencing “bed death”