Couples therapy
What is couples therapy?
A couple is much more than the sum of two parts. It has its own dynamic, which influences and is influenced by the people who form it.
Differences can enrich the relationship and help each partner grow. They can also cause conflict when trying to negotiate the models, ideas and expectations each partner brings about the relationship, communication, children and the world in general.
When challenges cannot be met with the couple’s own resources, they tend to build up until they lead to a crisis. At those moments, therapy can act as a resource and offer new perspectives to improve the relationship.
Each person brings their own world
How does it work?
The aim is to find new ways of relating, in line with the needs and potential of each couple and each person: understanding oneself, the other and the relationship better, opening channels of communication, changing dysfunctional patterns and working through present conflicts and past wounds.
The therapist has a range of technical resources, including tasks for the couple to do between sessions. Therapy can also support a break-up or separation in a constructive way, looking after the well-being of both partners and of their children, if they have any.
The most common reasons
- Communication problems
- Difficulty solving problems
- Infidelity
- Jealousy
- Aggression and violence
- Depression
- Sexual dissatisfaction
- Sexual problems
- Financial disagreements
- Mediation
- Problems with the family of origin
- Parenting difficulties