Couples Counseling and Marriage Therapy

You don’t need to continue to live under the stress you’ve been dealing with. Support and help are available to you.

With the help of relationship counseling, things can improve within your marriage and relationship and, when they do, you will begin to feel better.

Even the closest and happiest of couples face difficulties and challenges. We all have many things that demand our attention and, sometimes, our priorities change and we get off track and find that we haven’t been putting the necessary time, energy, attention, and work into our most intimate relationship.

The good news is that you realized what has happened and you know you want things to change because where you are at is not where you want to be. If you begin relationship counseling, couples counseling, or marriage therapy, it means you are willing and wanting to receive help so you and your partner can change the things that are hurting your relationship.

Having a close, supportive, and trusting, relationship takes work. To effectively communicate, you may need to learn some new skills that will help to teach your partner how to treat you while also being taught by your partner how to treat them.

How we work with couples during couples counseling

In our work with couples, we utilize the evidenced-based practice of the Gottman Method of couples therapy. We inform couples about the decades of couples research that is available to us and what we have learned in the behavioral health field about what helps people become “masters” at relationships. People who are “masters” at relationships have loving, supportive, intimate, and strong partner relationships. They have a set of skills, behaviors, and patterns that align them with their partner and help them to navigate the stressors and difficulties that arise in relating in supportive, trusting, and productive ways.

We guide couples to create the kind of relationships they want and deserve.

Marriage therapy researcher and therapist, Dr. John Gottman, has identified that couples wait to seek marriage therapy on an average of six years before getting professional help. Thus, they experience six years of unhappiness that weren’t necessary. 

That means that many couples have many years of built-up resentment, hostility, emotional pain, stress and sometimes broken trust toward each other before they begin therapy. Counseling can help them get back on the right track while repairing trust, intimacy, attachment, and learning how to resolve differences in effective ways. If that feels true for you – if you think, maybe, you should have tried therapy sooner – we encourage you to take the next step. Let’s begin helping you and your partner find your way back to each other. Let us begin helping you create the loving and meaningful relationship you want.