Marriage Counseling
Marriage counseling, helps couples — married or not — understand and resolve
conflicts and improve their relationship. Marriage counseling gives couples
the tools to communicate better, negotiate differences, problem solve
and even argue in a healthier way.
Marital counseling can be short term. You may need only a few sessions to help you
weather a crisis. Or you may need counseling for several months,
particularly if your relationship has greatly deteriorated. As with
individual psychotherapy, you typically see a marriage counselor or
therapist once a week.
Illness, infidelity, sex, anger,
addictions, communication problems — all can contribute to distress in
marriages or other relationships. Marital counseling or couples
counseling can help resolve conflicts and heal wounds.
Marital counseling involves both
partners in an intimate relationship forming a therapeutic
relationship with a trained counselor, at the same time.
The focus of marital counseling is on
improving the quality of the relationship for both partners. Marital
counseling looks at issues like communication, honesty, shared
responsibilities, commitment, and mutual support. Problems such as
abuse will also be addressed. Marital counseling can help you rebuild your relationship, or decide that you'll
both be better off if you split up. Either way, marital counseling can
help you understand your relationship better and make well-thought-out
decisions.
Many types of partnerships can benefit from counseling,
including married couples, couples preparing for marriage, co-habiting
couples, dating couples, separated couples, and couples preparing for a
divorce. Although originally developed for married couples, marital
counseling or couples counseling equally recognizes and works with unmarried couples, as
well as lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender couples.
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