The Benefit of Couple’s Therapy
Couple’s therapy creates misconceptions and often deters people from seeking support. Couple’s therapy is not reserved for people with extreme problems. Participating in this important work does not reflect you or your marriage needs help. In fact, people come in for therapy to restore emotional and physical intimacy. The benefits of counseling include immediacy of better intimacy, communication, more trust, confidence, conflict resolution, and even a stronger sense of self that leads to a happier life.
How does couple’s counseling work?
Couple’s therapy provides couples with tools for communicating openly and asking for what each of the partners need for their relationship to work – to grow. A couple’s counselor will hold the space needed for the couple to share their struggles, their fears, and many other issues. An effective couple’s therapist will not take sides, shift blame, or turn one partner against the other. They will help facilitate understanding between spouses and help them explore and bridge their differences.
How Couple’s Counseling Improves Relationships
Couple’s counseling aids in clarifying and defining feelings about your relationship. When you can work through a problem with the guidance of a non-bias person, ultimately, you grow closer as a couple and even as an individual. Statistics show that at least three-fourths of people who enter couple’s counseling have reported benefiting from the experience. That is an impressive statistic, considering that not everyone puts forth the effort to make it work for them.
Couple’s counseling can help the couple in developing a closer and stronger marriage. As one listens and learns from the other, the couple begins to feel like a team again. As a team, the couple can create more intimacy, feel romantic again, and improve the relationship overall.
Healing old wounds and hurt in couple’s counseling brings the couple the change to become closer and renew their commitment to their relationship. Many couples feel stuck in their marriages because they, or their partner, are not willing or unable to heal their own personal wounds or even the wounds that they have inflicted upon each other.
Through couple’s counseling, a partnership is regained, communication is restored, and a mutual understanding is created. The therapist can help the couple develop healthy patterns in managing conflicts through communication, collaboration, and emotional vulnerability of both partners.
How do we find relationship counseling help?
If you and your partner feel you would benefit from relationship counseling or you are eager to learn how to connect with your partner on a deeper level – you may find that talking with a professional may be helpful. Here at Montana Therapy For Moms, we are happy to meet with both partners to see if the client/relationship is a good fit. We pride ourselves on connection, comfortability, and a safe space.
Written By: Lital Diament MA LMFT