Couples Therapy
What Is Couples Counseling in San Diego?
Couples counseling is a series of confidential sessions with a licensed therapist focusing on understanding your relationship’s shortcomings and overcoming them. With guidance and support from the therapist, you and your partner will learn about yourselves and each other’s unique life experience.
The couples therapy sessions are a safe space to work through your relationship’s difficulties and find ways to resolve them. My job as a marriage counselor is to be out of a job, and I do that by building the skills in you to overcome life challenges in your relationship.
Despite the benefits of therapy, it still carries a stigma. People are sometimes embarrassed to see marriage counselors assume counseling is only necessary if a marriage is at risk of failing or that it won’t help anyone improve their personal life. However, the therapy works for couples of any background by teaching them how to:
Process complex emotions and thoughts
Learn how to listen to their partners with patience
Move away from unhealthy relationship habits and embrace sustainable relationship dynamics
See, understand, and respect their spouse
Rekindle their love and bond with their partner
When Is the Right Time to Seek Marriage Counseling?
You don’t have to have a “bad” marriage or family conflict to benefit from couples therapy in San Diego. You might need help reconnecting with your spouse or learning to compromise without one person feeling like the marriage has a power imbalance in the relationship.
However, if you and your partner are experiencing any of these issues, consider attending marriage counseling for support:
Constant fights, disagreements, hurt feelings, or conflicts
Differences in beliefs, values, and decision-making processes
A lack of sex or intimacy
Infidelity or a lack of trust
Ineffective communication
Complex children, family or friend dynamics
Major life changes and life challenges
Financial stress or strain
Feeling misunderstood, disconnected, or disrespected
Disagreements over children or parenting styles
Premarital counseling
How We Address Marriage Counseling and Relationship Issues
At Couples Connection San Diego, we strive to help couples improve their communication, boost their intimacy, and strengthen their bond. Couples therapists utilize many therapeutic solution focused approaches to achieve similar goals. However, emotionally focused therapy (EFT) benefits all couples regardless of age, race, gender, religion, and sexuality.
Our emotions are guides that help us define preferences and make decisions. EFT is a therapeutic approach that suggests the following:
Emotional unawareness is destructive
Emotional avoidance may cause negative life experiences
Ignoring or avoiding your emotional responses may hinder the ability to process your feelings later in life transitions
We start every brief therapy session assuming that every couple wants help growing old together. We will use EFT techniques to help you and your spouse become more aware of your emotions, how to understand them, talk openly, and what strategies are best for coping with them. Using EFT, Couples Connection San Diego helps restore marital and familial relationships that aren’t thriving.
Learning Coping Skills
Unfortunately, marital conflicts become destructive cycles of verbal attacks and harmful behavior that may breed resentment and anger. The longer the process continues, the more complicated it becomes, which makes some couples feel like divorce is the only solution. In some cases, spouses might not divorce but become withdrawn or retaliative.
Relationship-damaging cycles look different for every couple. However, therapy and EFT can help couples reestablish their connections and build stronger foundations to break the cycle and move toward a more extraordinary life together.
What You Could Expect with Couples Therapy at Couple Connection San Diego
Couple Connection offers free, no-obligation consultations for therapy. During the consultation, we will get a general understanding of your concerns. In the first session, you and your partner will have the opportunity to discuss your concerns, needs, mental health, and problems individually and as a couple.
The information you provide will help your family therapist understand the gist of your problems. As the sessions continue, you’ll learn EFT techniques to improve your communication and emotional responses. Our therapy follows a short-term model, so most couples require eight to 20 sessions to get the tools they need to achieve a healthier relationship.
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Call a family therapist at Couple Connection San Diego at (877) 940-3047 or click the button below for a free 15-minute consultation with a licensed marriage counselor if you are ready to work toward a collaborative approach to relationship satisfaction with your partner through therapy.
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(877) 940-3047
5252 Balboa Ave, Suite 500 San Diego, CA. 92117
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