Do you feel like your relationship is at a standstill? Are you and your partner stuck in the same argument loop every night? Do you feel like you and your partner are drifting apart? Do you desire more intimacy between yourself and your partner?
Everything can be improved, changed, and made better, with little support, no matter how big or small. With couples therapy, you’ll learn how to communicate your feelings and needs and get what you want out of your relationship.
Some issues that bring couples to therapy are:
- Addiction/Partner Addiction Support
- Balance (Work/Life/Family)
- Blended Families
- Chronic Illness
- Divorce
- Extended Family
- Infidelity/Cheating
- Intimacy
- Mental Illness
- Pre-Marital/Readiness
- Pornography
- Sex
RELATIONSHIP WOUNDS
What is your typical response to relationship wounds? Do you pull away and isolate? Do you seek out relationships with others to assist you in working through the conflict? Do you engage in a relationship with objects or activities such as food, drugs, alcohol, or sex? Or do you remain engaged in the relationship within which you were wounded to work through the problems and find healing?
“It is within relationships that we are wounded; It is within relationships that we maybe healed.” As humans, we are hot-wired for relationships. If you respond to your relationship wounds by isolating or attaching to other people, objects, or activities, you are not moving towards a progressive connection. Instead, you are disconnecting and creating room for an inevitable void.
If you are dealing with relationship wounds, I can help! Contact me today for counseling to help you through all your relationship problems, whether in a marriage, a pre-marital relationship, couples, colleagues, friends or within a family.
In my couple’s therapy sessions, I help people develop the necessary skills to maintain sustaining love.
If you can relate to any of the above in your relationship(s), contact me today for a free consultation. I would love to speak about how I may help you reconnect, and rekindle some of the most important relationship(s) in your life.
During couples counseling sessions for troubled relationships or marriages, I often find that the partners have put band-aids on their relationship problems for years. Sooner or later, the band-aids peel off, and problems emerge that can trouble or even sink your marriage, but that can be avoided with counseling and therapy to help set you and your partner on the right track.
Sweeping problems under the rug is a short-term solution. When we sweep something under the rug, again and again, guess what happens? We end up tripping over the rug.
COMMUNICATION
If you feel like you and your spouse can’t communicate anymore or have lost that loving feeling, couples/marriage counseling can get you back on track. If you feel like you are two strangers coexisting in the same home, then I (or one of our team) may be able to help you recover feelings that your relationship has lost, and build new, deeper feelings that can last for a lifetime.
In marriage counseling, you’ll learn to communicate more clearly in your relationship. Communication problems can destroy your relationships, but they can also be addressed. You may be surprised at how you and your partner can learn to communicate meaningfully in ways that meet both of your needs. You can move from “he/she doesn’t understand me” to “he/she gets me.”
ARGUING AND FIGHTING
No relationship is conflict-free. Two people can’t live together without friction. Sometimes, however, conflict gets out of control. Do you describe your marriage as one where “we keep arguing,” “we fight about the same thing”? If you so, you are not alone. There’s no shame in accepting help with your marriage, and a knowledgeable, unbiased third party could be the mediator you need to help you communicate past your relationship issues and learn conflict management.
TRUST ISSUES
After infidelity, it’s common to feel, “I don’t know if I’ll ever be able to trust him or her again.” It’s a reasonable feeling.
Sometimes you may need help figuring out if you should end the relationship or try and work things out. In marriage counseling for a relationship that involves infidelity, it may require working with both of you as a couple, or one-on-one sessions with just one spouse/partner to help work through the underlying issues that may be triggering infidelity.
NEXT STEPS TO GETTING BACK ON TRACK
You can change, your relationship can get better, and your family life can improve. Take the first step.