Couples Therapy
Do you feel like your relationship is at a standstill? Are you and your partner stuck in the same argument loop every night? Do you feel like you and your partner are drifting away? Do you desire more intimacy between you and your partner?
Relationships can be deeply rewarding, but they also come with challenges and conflicts that can strain even the strongest bonds. Couples therapy provides a structured and supportive environment to help partners navigate these difficulties, improve communication, and deepen their emotional connection.
The journey of couples therapy can be challenging, but with commitment, patience, and an open mind, it can lead to a deeper understanding, stronger bond, and a more fulfilling partnership. By investing in your relationship and working with a skilled therapist, you can rediscover the love that brought you together and create a more harmonious future.
The therapist acts as an impartial third party, creating a safe space for couples to express their thoughts, feelings, and concerns openly. Through guided dialogue, exercises, and evidence-based techniques, couples learn to identify negative patterns, improve their communication style, and develop strategies for resolving conflicts effectively.
Some issues that bring couples to therapy are:
- Addiction/Partner Addiction Support
- Balance (Work/Life/Family)
- Blended Families
- Chronic Illness
- Divorce
- Extended Family
- Infidelity/Cheating
- Intimacy
- Mental Illness
- Pre-Marital/Readiness
- Pornography
- Sex
What you can expect at Wall Street Therapy couples counseling
An inclusive, judgment-free environment.
Licensed therapist who are experts in Imago Relationship Therapy , Embodied Couples Therapy, Emotion Focused Therapy , Real Life Therapy and equipped to walk you through complex challenges.
Intentional dialogue exercises to help you and your partner more deeply understand each other.
Guidance to examine and repair long-standing patterns of conflict, so you can stop having the same arguments over and over.
Actionable tools to help you rebuild trust and work through challenges
Insights to help you and your partner heal the “power struggle” in your relationship.
Support and encouragement to learn how to ask for what you really want
Through our collaborative approach to couples therapy, we'll work together to identify your unique challenges, explore underlying patterns, and develop practical skills. We're here to support you.
There are many reasons why couples may seek out therapy. Here are some common ones:
- Communication problems - Couples often struggle with communication breakdowns, misunderstandings, and difficulty effectively expressing thoughts and feelings.
- Conflict resolution issues - Recurring conflicts that don't get resolved in a healthy way can damage a relationship over time. Therapy helps couples develop better conflict resolution skills.
- Lack of intimacy/connection - Over time, couples may feel they've lost the emotional or physical intimacy they once had. Therapy aims to help reignite that closeness.
- Trust issues - Infidelity, dishonesty or betrayals of trust require repair work in a relationship through therapy.
- Differences in values/goals - Contrasting values, life goals or major lifestyle choices can create relationship strain that therapy can help navigate.
- Family/parenting stressors - Adding children, blending families, dealing with in-law dynamics - therapy supports couples through these transitions.
- Sex/intimacy problems - Differing sexual needs, desire discrepancy or other physical intimacy issues are addresses in sex therapy.
- Major life transitions - Significant events like job changes, moving, retirement etc. disrupt established patterns and may benefit from therapy.
- Pre-marital counseling - Some couples seek therapy before marriage to build a strong foundation for their union.
The unifying goal is improving understanding, strengthening the partnership and equipping the couple with skills to work through present and future challenges.
Relational Life Therapy (RLT) is a distinctive couples therapy method developed and refined over three decades by renowned author Terry Real. RLT cultivates an environment of profound honesty, swiftly and sensitively pinpointing the dysfunctional relationship patterns hindering positive change. This integrative approach deftly combines empathic attunement, inner child healing, judicious confrontation when needed. RLT instills hope in disheartened partners by guiding them toward the shared vulnerability essential for emotional healing and growth. Through its multifaceted techniques, RLT aims to help couples break through relational impasses and rediscover deeper intimacy, understanding and connection.
To learn more about the origins of Relational Life Therapy and the history of couples therapy at large please click here.
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