What to Expect in Couples Counseling
Couples counseling is often a more directive process than individual therapy, meaning simply that the counselor has more direct input into how the session progresses. What I tell couples who first seek me out is that couples counseling in my practice is a structure-based, communications-focused method of reaching out to the most important person in your life. It’s a means to re-establish what has been lost or building what may never have been there from the beginning. Couples counseling should be about forming deeper and more flexible connections that can grow and change as individuals grow and the relationship evolves. At the heart of this process is providing the couple with the tools they need to achieve those connections. The counselor’s role is to model the use of healthy communications skills and intuit where the couple is along the road to applying those tools. I often say to my clients, I want them to leave my office being able to do my job. Helping couples manage e...