Relationship Counseling

 
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How can therapy help my relationship?

Couples therapy can benefit you in several ways, even if you're currently in a healthy relationship. Here are some potential benefits:

  • Improved communication: Therapists can teach you and your partner effective communication techniques to express yourselves better and understand each other more clearly.

  • Conflict resolution skills: Learn healthy ways to address and resolve disagreements without damaging your relationship.

  • Strengthened emotional connection: Therapy can help you deepen your emotional bond and intimacy with your partner.

  • Identifying negative patterns: A therapist can help you recognize and change unhealthy relationship patterns you may not be aware of.

  • Navigating life transitions: Couples therapy can assist in managing significant life changes like marriage, having children, or career shifts.

  • Addressing individual issues: Personal issues that affect the relationship can be explored and worked on in a supportive environment.

  • Rebuilding trust: If trust has been broken, therapy can provide a safe space to work through those issues and rebuild.

  • Enhancing intimacy: Couples can learn to improve their physical and emotional intimacy.

  • Preventive care: Even happy couples can benefit from therapy to maintain and enhance their relationship.

  • Gaining new perspectives: A neutral third party can offer fresh insights into your relationship dynamics.

Remember, seeking couples therapy doesn't mean your relationship is failing. It's a proactive step towards nurturing and strengthening your bond with your partner.

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Our Couple’s Therapists offer choices to help you get back to the relationship you once loved.

Regular 60-minute sessions may be better for clients who have more time availability for weekly sessions.

Therapy Intensives may be a better fit for folx who have greater time commitments in their lives. This allows for more flexible scheduling. Usually, these sessions are 3 hours and are held less often.

Therapy Intensives for Relationships:

  • Therapy Intensives can can be a powerful tool for couples looking to make significant progress in their relationship in a short period. Here's how they can help:

    1. Concentrated focus: Intensives provide uninterrupted time to work on relationship issues without daily life distractions.

    2. Accelerated progress: Couples can achieve in days what might take months in traditional weekly sessions.

    3. Deep dive into issues: The extended format allows for thorough exploration of complex or long-standing problems.

    4. Breakthrough opportunities: The immersive nature of intensives can lead to major breakthroughs and insights.

    5. Crisis intervention: For couples in severe distress, intensives can provide immediate, comprehensive support.

    6. Skill building: Couples have more time to learn and practice new communication and conflict resolution skills.

    7. Emotional processing: The extended format allows for deeper emotional work and processing.

    8. Relationship reset: Intensives can serve as a "reset button" for couples looking to start fresh.

    9. Tailored approach: Therapists can customize the intensive to address the couple's specific needs and goals.

    10. Momentum building: The concentrated work can create positive momentum that carries into daily life.

    11. Time efficiency: Ideal for couples with busy schedules who find it challenging to commit to weekly sessions.

    12. Environment change: Often held in retreat-like settings, which can promote relaxation and openness.

    13. Bonding opportunity: The shared experience of an intensive can itself be a bonding activity for couples.

    14. Long-term planning: Extended sessions allow time for developing comprehensive strategies for ongoing relationship health.

    15. Post-intensive support: Liberation Counseling offers short- or long-term follow-up sessions to help couples maintain their progress.

FAQs

  • The short answer is “maybe.” Some of us can take insurance, and others cannot. Please get in touch with us for more information. If we can’t take your insurance, we can provide you with all the paperwork you need to submit to your insurance for out-of-network reimbursement.

  • All of our teammates have in-person availability. We also offer online sessions for anyone who wants the convenience or flexibility of telehealth.

  • It’s really simple! Before your first session, your therapist will send you an email and/or a text message with a link to a secure site. At the time of your appointment, you just click the link to meet with your therapis!

  • Because we’re a collective, each of our teammates sets their own rates. See the “Our Team” page for more details.