It is not the month of love but talking about our love life is worth it! As time passes by, it is not uncommon for couples to become distant, disconnected or even uninterested in each other. Couples counseling is a great tool that can help you reconnect with each other or even decide the future of your relationship.
We often believe we must attend couples counseling when the house is burning down. However, I personally recommend for couples to attend counseling as soon as they notice that some of their concerns are affecting their relationship.
There are other instances in which couples counseling will be a tool that can assist a couple decide the fate of their relationship. While a therapist will never tell you to end or stay in a relationship, they can provide guidance to allow each party to decide what is best for them.
When attending a couples counseling, it is important to find a therapist that is a good fit for both parties. It is important to seek counseling from a therapist who can remain unbiased and is able to provide objective guidance in the matter you are addressing.
Here are 7 reasons to go to Couples Counseling:
- Improve your communications skills: Therapy helps couples to fight fair, express feelings assertively as well as retraining each party to communicate effectively with each other.
- Providing a secure environment and opportunity to heal: Have you ever tried to have a crucial conversation with your significant other and end up arguing? Therapy provides you that safe space to express yourself without necessarily arguing.
- Improve your communications skills: Therapy helps couples to fight fair, express feelings assertively as well as retraining each party to communicate effectively with each other
- Discover the root cause of the conflict(s): Have you ever found yourself fighting with your partner about “something insignificant” but later on realize that the issue ran deeper than what annoyed you? Therapy can be a safe space to discover the root behind an individual’s triggers
- Encouraging better acceptance of one another: As individuals, we change over time and the dynamic of our relationships do as well. In therapy, a couple can explore alternative ways to embracing one another through their unique strengths and weaknesses.
- Providing the opportunity to increase mutual support: Finding support in our significant other is often a basic need we must have met in our relationships. Therapy can bring a couple back to that place in which individual can find support in each other
- Restoring emotional and physical intimacy: Intimacy issues may arise as time passes by in a relationship. Whether due to kids, illness or career changes, couples have the ability to learn tools to restore intimacy while attending therapy.
- Restoring trust: Trust is given, trust is earned; yet even when one party has worked hard to earn that trust, the other party refuses to give it. Therapy can be a safe place to work through trust issues. It does require honesty from both parties, however.
As you read through these reasons, please keep in mind that the therapeutic process will only be as effective as the work both individuals in a relationship put in between sessions.
Couples meet with their therapist and during session, tools and strategies are provided with the goal of improving the wellbeing of the relationship. However, it is important to know that results are not guaranteed and are based on the willingness of each individual to work on their concerns.
Contact us for more information or booking your session. Health insurance may be able to provide some coverage for couples therapy.
