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Couples counselling works on strengthening the relationship through open communication and if you’re seeking to reconnect.
Therapy is designed to create a supportive environment where both partners feel comfortable sharing their thoughts and emotions.
If you think speaking with a counsellor could be a solution, it’s important, to have an open conversation with your partner about your feelings and thoughts on the two of you seeking help.
How Does Couples Counselling Work?
1: Safe Space: The counsellor creates a non-judgmental space where you can openly express yourselves.
2: Understanding Emotions: Counsellors will help you understand and communicate your feelings better, thus enabling a stronger connection. It can also help view things from a new perspective.
3: Looking at the Past: Sometimes, past experiences affect relationships. Exploring those can help resolve deeper issues.
4: Finding Solutions: Instead of focusing on the problem, therapists encourage you to work on positive solutions together, by working together new outcomes and ideas begin to flow.
5: Resolving Conflict: You’ll pick up tools managing conflicts, and handling relationship challenges.
6: Roles and Responsibilities: Working through any imbalances or unmet expectations within the relationship.
7: Values and Beliefs: Discuss differences in values, beliefs, and culture, and how they impact your lives.
8: Financial difficulties: Learn how to talk about finances and develop healthier habits around money.
9: Intimacy Issues: Talk through challenges with intimacy, infidelity, or trust in a non-judgemental space.
10: Outside Stress: whether it’s work stress or other external pressures, therapy can help you navigate these influences together as a team.
By addressing both internal and external stressors, your therapist will equip you with effective tools to manage these challenges.
What Are The Benefits Of Couples Counselling:
Deeper Understanding: You’ll gain deeper insight into each other’s thoughts and feelings.
Better Communication: Learn how to talk to each other in a healthier, less critical way.
Resolving Conflicts: Build skills to work through disagreements without making things worse.
Stronger Bonds: Strengthen your emotional connection, leading to deeper intimacy and friendship.
Starting couples counselling can feel scary, but finding the right counsellor can turn it into a rewarding experience and open a new chapter in your relationship.
The benefits when worked on effectively can make a huge difference in your relationship and a more loving partnership will develop.
There are various approaches to couples counselling that can be explored in the linked article Couples Therapy: Definition, Techniques, and Efficacy (verywellmind.com)
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About the Author
My name is Linda Thompson, I am a qualified and insured counsellor working in Gillingham and Medway, Kent. I support individuals and couples with all kinds of issues, from bereavement to anxiety, relationship difficulties, trauma, abuse and coping with the general stressors of life. Please get in touch to book a session with me. Join me on Facebook.