Couples and relationship counseling can help you:
- Reconnect emotionally
- Affirm and renew your commitment to one another
- Cultivate the opportunities for learning and development that can derived from the thoughtful exploration of your problems or difficulties
- Understand one another and your strengths and vulnerabilities in relationship
- Understand the correlation between your early lives and your experience in relationships
- Understand and express your needs authentically and non-reactively
- Understand what most strengthens your feelings of closeness
- Understand the origins of feelings of mistrust or reactivity
- Develop strategies and skills for managing and resolving habitual tensions or conflicts and for communicating more effectively when stressed
- Develop or adopt rituals or practices that will support and nurture your life as a couple
- Develop your capacity for self-reflection, intimacy and trust, as well as emotional regulation when arguing or distressed
- Cope with infertility, infidelity, sexual difficulties, divorce, remarriage, financial or employment stresses, loss, grief, parenting conflicts, cultural tensions, a personal history of trauma, depression, anxiety, disability, illness, care-giving or aging, or any other source of stress or adjustment in your lives