Couples Therapy
Couples Counseling
Every couple has a unique dynamic that influences how you show your love, respect, and genuine care for your partner. This unique dynamic will change depending on a wide range of factors. Couples can find themselves frustrated, confused, or concerned when their dynamic becomes strained or challenged. Regardless of the phase your relationship is in, most couples benefit from an opportunity to share issues within a safe place, with an experienced couples therapist, where there is an opportunity to find solutions and build effective skills that lead you two back to one another.
Relationship Building
The speed that couples move through certain relationship phases depends on your age, financial stability, life circumstances, and spiritual or religious beliefs. Within each phase – there is a dynamic being created that is a blend of your unique personalities, habits, and preferences. Some couples do this naturally and others may have to work through differences slowly in order to achieve one that is healthy.
Building a healthy dynamic becomes incredibly important as it determines how you two:
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- Connect intimately
- Resolve conflict
- Effectively communicate
- Spend free time and socialize with family/friends
- Solve problems
- Determine future plans
Common Concerns in Couples
Couples seek out counseling for a number of reasons. There doesn’t have to be an active conflict or a rupture of trust for a couple to engage in therapy. For a relationship to grow in a healthy direction there must be clear communication about what is happening for each of you personally and what you feel when you are together.
Some of those issues include:
- Patterns of unresolved conflicts without forgiveness
- Sexless relationships or intimacy satisfaction issues
- Infidelity and rebuilding trust
- Cohesion in decision-making
- Fusing finances or managing money
- Ineffective communication styles
How Couples Counseling Works
When your relationship has become stuck, unsatisfying, or contentious couples counseling is an option that offers potential resolve. There are certain aspects of couples counseling that allow for both of you to be heard and feel safe. This includes a licensed and experienced counselor, an inclusive and safe space, and evidence-based therapy techniques and therapy treatment plans, all of which Unity Therapy Services offers.
Couples counseling begins with an initial session for our therapist to gather your relationship history, current issues to resolve, and any additional historical information that is helpful to frame your issues. Once goals are identified collectively, your therapist will formulate a structured plan that provides a path towards achieving these goals.
Benefits of Couples Counseling
It’s important to remain realistic when engaging in couples counseling, as it is reliant on the things you and your partner do outside of the counseling session. Therapy requires vulnerability and a willingness to try new skills and practices within your relationship.
Therapy sessions can help you and your partner:
- Address therapy techniques that are working, identify ones that aren’t, and find out why.
- Learn and practice skills like active listening, tone and delivery of communication, labeling and identifying emotions, and time management.
- Rebuild empathy, curiosity, and love for your partner.
- Identify individual issues that are contributing to the issues within the relationship.
At Unity Therapy Services, our experienced therapists offer bilingual collaborative couples counseling from a non-judgemental and empathetic perspective. If you and your partner are ready to explore the possibilities of changing your dynamic, contact our team today for a consultation. You can click here or feel free to call us at (951) 303-0006. Our offices are located in Temecula, CA in Riverside County. If you have other mental health needs, please check out our services page for additional information.