Couples Therapy
“What’s the difference between Couples Therapy and Marriage Counseling?”
Aside from potential legal complexity. Couples therapy includes discussions around deciding the viability of the relationship, boundaries, and working through concerns you may have in the relationship before you build a life with your partner.
This can help address concerns and build a deeper acceptance of who you all are as individuals and work through repeat concerns you have before you both start talking about marriage.
We utilize Gottman-focused approaches to help you make sustainable change and to help promote lasting satisfaction and intimacy in your relationship.
If you are struggling with communication, intimacy, infidelity recovery, betrayal, feeling like roommates, or managing conflict we can help you!
Premarital Counseling
Not all marraige and couples therapy has to wait until there is a problem for you to come to therapy. Wedding planning and making the jump from fiancee to husband/wife can be stressful and feel incredibly jarring. Sometimes you just need reassurance that you all are fine and we believe that being proactive is better than reactive.
We will cover topics like finances (number 1 cause for divorce), parenting and expectations around having kids (number 1 time for divorce is after the birth of the first child), keeping your spark alive, love and commitment, what building a life together means, and establishing healthy habits going into your marriage instead of having to build these habits later down the line.
Marriage Counseling
Marriage counseling addresses concerns you may have in your relationship ranging from “We just want to make sure everything is good” to “I have discovered something about my partner and I am questioning the relationship”.
Conversations are generally focused on the life you both want to build together and what the future looks like. Some conversations include topics like boundaries, how has parenting affected you, what are your wants and needs, what does growing together look like.
Also some problems feel like boomerangs and keep popping up regardless of how many times you argue about it. We can help with these “gridlock” problems, because sometimes you want to stop having the same argument over, and over, and over again.
