Couples Counseling
All relationships experience difficulties, how you manage those Challenges can make or break a relationship.
Why Couples Counseling?
By engaging in couples counseling, partners can break free from predictable scripts and arguments, and discover new ways to navigate their relationship.
Couples Counseling is a process that involves understanding and negotiation.
In order to make changes it is necessary to understand how things got to be the way that they are. Negotiation involves reassessing and rearranging the agreements that help keep a relationship going.
The role of the counselor is to provide an outside perspective to track and disrupt the status quo, habits and tensions that are causing issues and disconnection. A counselor facilitates discussions, mediates disagreements and helps provide connections and common ground without taking sides.
My goal as a couples counselor is to help each partner be heard and listen, explore what’s getting in the way of working things out and provide a sense of progressive communication. I work to cultivate a culture of dialogue that goes beyond the presenting problem. Communication habits that can benefit everyone.
Breaking Down Barriers and Build Better Boundaries
When couples have a regular space to discuss their concerns, they can:
Reassess their relationship and identify areas for improvement
Realign their expectations and communication styles
Grow as individuals and as a couple, fostering a more cooperative and enjoyable partnership
The Power of Change
However, growth and change can be uncomfortable, and couples may find themselves stuck in familiar patterns. A couples counselor can help interrupt these dynamics, investigate the underlying tensions, and enable partners to communicate more effectively.
The Benefits of Couples Counseling
Through the counseling process, couples can:
Identify and understand the patterns that are causing difficulties
Address unspoken feelings, expectations, and resentments
Develop new insights and approaches to their relationship
Embracing the Unknown
The human mind is wired to prefer the comfort of familiarity to the uncertainty of change.
Couples counseling is inherently uncomfortable.
Overtime it becomes a catalyst for growth.
Navigating the discomfort of the unknown together, as a couple, can lead to deeper trust, connections and a stronger, more resilient relationship. There is more than one rom-com out there of people falling in love when faced with adversity. Learning to embrace conflict in a relationship adds more life force to your connections in and outside of your intimate relationships.
Individual Sessions Available
Don't have a willing partner?
Individual counseling can help you:
Identify your relationship needs
Develop better communication skills
Learn to set boundaries and advocate for yourself