Couples Therapy
How does it help?
Couples therapy can help with intimacy, building and bringing back trust, relationship goals, decrease in emotional avoidance or high conflict interactions, and conflict resolution. It can also help with co-parenting and divorce.
Gottman Method - We come into relationships with two differing sets of past experiences, with different wounds, beliefs, values, and goals or aspirations, and this can sometimes be the source of conflict, but it doesn’t have to be that way. The Gottman Method Couples Therapy helps couples disarm conflicting verbal communication and increase respect and affection to create loving connections.
Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) focuses on the development of emotional intelligence and awareness so you can recognize and express emotional needs more effectively. Doing so will enable building a safe space between each other and improve connection as you are more and more in tune with your partner and coming from a place of empathy instead of anger or defensiveness.
Dialetical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) helps with intense and overwhelming emotions or ineffective behaviors that cause damage to relationships. In DBT, distress tolerance and emotional regulation skills are learned, as well as practicing mindfulness. In couples therapy, there can be role playing, which enables practicing these skills and will lead to a healthier way of dealing with emotions in a relationship.