Couples therapy is a treatment designed specifically to focus on the couple’s relationship and help them improve their understanding one another. Through this understanding couples can learn to shape their relationship into the relationship they aspired to have, and develop greater appreciation and respect for their partner.
Couples therapy considers the ways couples communicate and work together and helps couples develop skills to enhance their communication. It provides an awareness of the way relationships were experienced and perceived in each partner’s family of origin, and how these relationships are re-played in the couple’s relationship.
I help couples with a wide variety of challenges, including:
- Beginning a new relationship
- Enhancing an existing relationship
- Deepening empathy and intimacy
- Handling conflict productively
- Improving communication
- Considering and planning for parenthood
- Managing intense emotions at difficult times
- Deepening support and commitment