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What is Marital Therapy?
Marital therapy
, or couples counselling when the partners are not married, is a therapeutic process where both couples come to the same therapy session to work on their problems together with guidance from a professional marital therapist.How do we know if we need couples therapy?
When you first meet a therapist there is a period of assessment that can last several sessions where the therapist asks questions and gathers information in order to formulate the problem and make a sound treatment recommendation. In addition to couples therapy, family therapy or individual therapy may also be recommended.How does it work?
A couple meet with a therapist to talk about the problems in their relationship. Here are some of the most common issues:- communication problems
- how to express anger productively
- how to parent children as a united couple
- how to become more intimate and trusting
- how to cope with separation, infidelity, or a death in the family
- how to manage money problems
- how to understand personality differences
- working through major life changes, and so on.
What does the marital therapist do?
The couples therapist listens to the couple with neutrality and works to facilitate respectful communication, helps each person in an argument feel understood, enables each person to begin to grasp the other person’s perspective, and points out patterns that couples may be repeating from their own history as a couple, and from each of their own personal histories.How frequent are the sessions?
Sessions usually occur once a week, but this may be adapted to the individual couple and their needs.How long does therapy last?
Generally therapy can last between 4 months to several years, but this is highly variable and depends on the individual couple and the extent of the problem.Find a local marital therapist to book a consultation.
