Couples Therapy
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Therapy for Couples
Most relationships face challenges at some point or another. Couples therapy can offer many benefits to partners at any stage of their relationship, whether it is a new relationship or you have been married for many years and are seeking marriage counselling.
Couples therapy addresses problems between intimate partners. These sessions provide a safe space for couples to speak, think and express feelings freely. Working with a couples therapist addresses obstacles and conflicts in order to move towards achieving the ultimate goals set by the couple. The psychologist or therapist works to care for the couple as a whole, rather than make judgments about who is right or wrong, so that each member feels equally supported. Working with a provincially regulated and experienced therapist and having an impartial and well-trained listener can help couples work through challenges together and come out stronger.
Benefits of Couples Therapy
- Deepen connection with your partner
- Improve your communication with your partner
- Help promote self-awareness and personal growth
- Help you make sense of feelings about your relationship and clarify your emotions
- Understand the negative patterns of interaction in the relationship
- Identify what each person wants from the relationship and from one another
- Find ways to manage and resolve conflict (without avoidance)
- Support one another and create shared meaning
- Reconnect with each other’s future desires or goals
- Increase security, closeness and connection with one another
- Improve friendship between partners
- Deepen connection with your partner
- Improve your communication with your partner
- Help promote self-awareness and personal growth
- Help you make sense of feelings about your relationship and clarify your emotions
- Understand the negative patterns of interaction in the relationship
- Identify what each person wants from the relationship and from one another
- Find ways to manage and resolve conflict (without avoidance)
- Support one another and create shared meaning
- Reconnect with each other’s future desires or goals
- Increase security, closeness and connection with one another
- Improve friendship between partners
When Should We Seek Couples Therapy?
Couples therapy is helpful for couples at any stage of a relationship and can help couples effectively work through a wide variety of relationship challenges. Some of the reasons people may seek out couples therapy include (but are not limited to) infidelity, intimacy issues, dealing with change, or struggling with communication. Couples therapy can be an opportunity to create the kind of relationship you and your partner both want.
Deepen your relationship.
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