Couple Therapy

Relevant aspects for couples

Many approaches offer a comprehensive overview of the main characteristics to consider along relationships. For instance, following the method provided by Gottman, the Solution Focused Model, and Jay Haley could take into account some of the next:

• Knowing what happens in the partner’s inner world (worries, joy, projects).
• How to approach the partner.
• How the relationship is felt.
• How conflicts are managed.
• Pursuing both dreams of life.
• Commitment and trust in the partner.
• Auto-regulation skills, communication skills, behavioral exchange.
• Acceptance, awareness, attachment.
• Hope, expectations.
• Beliefs about what it is a happy relationship or marriage.

When to consider Couple Therapy?

There are myths about couples, saying what is right or wrong. It is vital to know that it is normal to have conflicts in a relationship, disagreements, and different perspectives or ways of doing things.

But one of the alerts to be attentive is once you have passed off any of those situations and end up with:

• An annoying and disturbing sensation that generates rejection.
• Negative ideas about the relationship’s future.
• An unwished partner image
• Anger that keeps accumulating against him/her.
• New more aggressive reactions from any of both.
• Hopeless about expectations of a caring answer from your partner.
• Between others.

How to be helped? 

Statistics say that no method ensures 100% of success for couple therapy. Despite this, there are many variables to consider, and every couple is a unique universe. What can be certain, is that with the treatment, you would have tried a powerful tool to better your relationship and save your marriage or improve the way you both are experiencing each other.

It offers the possibility to learn how to live better with each other and how to face problems with a more open-minded approach. It is a process that takes time and requires the will and effort of both parties.

Treatment consists of a set of 3 first sessions; the first one with both of you, followed by two separate individual sessions and a second session with you both. From here, it would be possible to establish the continuation of the treatment or end it with some technical suggestions.

What drastically changes is the opportunity to observe the reactions, answers, and content of the arguments from another place. This allows going a step back before saying or doing something that could direct to an unpleasant outcome. We will develop a process focusing on one problem at a time, prioritizing the ones that affect the well-being of the relationship more.