Couples Therapy
Conflict in a relationship is completely natural. Even the healthiest of couples experience some degree of conflict in their lives.
The secret is addressing those issues head-on and not letting your less-loving interactions define you. By seeking out couples counseling, you can gain insight into your relationship dynamics, stop conflicts before they start and repair any lingering emotional wounds or traumas.
The goals of Gottman Method Couples Therapy are to disarm conflicting verbal communication, increase intimacy, respect, and affection, remove barriers that create a feeling of stagnancy in conflicting situations, and create a heightened sense of empathy and understanding within the context of the relationship.
How often do you and your partner miscommunicate?
If you’re like most couples, you and your partner speak different languages when it comes to expressing your needs. Successful communication between couples requires understanding, embracing, adapting to and loving those differences. During couples counseling, we will spend time exploring your communication styles and helping you learn to coexist more effectively.
How to Have Successful Communication:
Even the most loving, happy and in-sync couples have miscommunications and misunderstandings. Couples counseling can help you prevent those missteps from becoming a larger issue. Successful communication between couples takes practice.
It means being able to convey your feelings, thoughts and troubles in a way that your partner can hear them, without becoming defensive. Sometimes, it can even involve not communicating at all, until you are both ready. Changing the way you communicate with your partner can alter the entire fabric of your relationship. For example, by learning to not shout at your partner during conflicts, you can transform the entire relationship into a calmer and more safe experience. At the Intuitive Counseling Center, our compassionate couples counselors have extensive experience helping couples improve their communication skills.
Conscious Uncoupling
What Is Conscious Uncoupling?
Conscious Uncoupling is a breakup for divorce that is characterized by a tremendous amount of goodwill, generosity, and respect, where those separating strive to do minimal damage to themselves, to each other, and to their children (if they have any), as well as intentionally seek to create new agreements and structures designed to set everyone up to win, flourish, and thrive moving forward in life.
Conscious Uncoupling is for anyone with a sincere desire to end their relationship well and in such a way that ensures the best possible outcome for everyone affected, including (and perhaps especially) your children. That being said, the decision to end a relationship should not be made hastily. A couple or individual should only begin this process if the relationship is clearly over.