Couples Counseling
Tools For A Stronger Partnership
Reasons for Couples Therapy
Increase Your Trust
Intimacy Needs
Communication Needs
Partnership Infidelity
Deepen Your Friendship
Premarital Counseling
Couples Counseling: Strengthening Your Relationship
Couples counseling is a powerful tool for partners seeking to improve their relationship, address challenges, and build a deeper emotional connection. At Growth and Wellness, I specialize in evidence-based approaches like the Gottman Method to help couples enhance communication, resolve conflicts, and foster lasting intimacy.
Whether you’re facing ongoing struggles or simply want to strengthen your bond, couples counseling offers a safe space to grow together.
Why Choose Couples Counseling?
Relationships can be complicated, and even the strongest partnerships face challenges. Counseling provides professional guidance to help couples navigate difficult situations, such as:
- Struggles with communication.
- Intense and frequent arguments.
- Volatile reactions to possible misunderstandings.
- Emotional distance or feelings of disconnection.
- Lack of intimacy.
- Trust issues, including those stemming from infidelity.
- Life changes, such as becoming parents or relocating.
Through therapy, partners can learn practical skills to rebuild trust, manage disagreements, and rekindle their connection.
What to Expect in Couples Counseling
The counseling process at Growth and Wellness is tailored to meet your unique needs. Here’s how it works:
- Initial Assessment: In the first session, I will work with you to understand the dynamics of your relationship and identify areas for improvement.
- Setting Goals: Together, you’ll set realistic, meaningful and measurable objectives to guide your therapy sessions.
- Skill Building: Couples learn communication strategies, conflict resolution techniques, and tools to foster emotional intimacy.
- Ongoing Support: Regular sessions allow you to practice new behaviors, address challenges, and track progress toward your goals.
By working collaboratively, couples can create lasting changes that improve their relationship.
The Gottman Method: An Evidence-Based Approach
At Growth and Wellness, I use the Gottman Method, a research-backed approach designed to strengthen relationships. This method focuses on enhancing positive communication, reducing ineffective behavioral/communicative interactions, and helping you understand your partners emotional needs.
A key aspect of this approach involves addressing behaviors known as the “Four Horsemen”: criticism, contempt, defensiveness, and stonewalling. Replacing these with healthier patterns of interaction can significantly improve your relationship’s foundation.
Many of the tools are designed to increase a couple’s positive exchanges and reframe issues like anger and conflict as an individual’s attempt to protect themselves from being. The treatment is designed to increase trust by enhancing friendship, mutual respect and affection. Specific tools such “bids for connection” and “dreams within conflict” move couples towards more effective ways of understanding each other; this is in contrast to arguing to exhaustion or ignoring each other, without making any forward gains in communication.
Take the First Step Toward Growth
If you’re ready to invest in your relationship, Growth and Wellness is here to help. Schedule your first session or take advantage of our free 15-minute consultation to explore how counseling can support your goals. Together, we can build a healthier, happier partnership.
Getting Started is Easy
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Schedule a meeting with William during a time that works best for you and your partner.
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Discuss your unique situation as William assesses the best strategy for your path forward.
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Begin your journey down the path of happiness and healthy living.
Couples Counseling FAQ’s
What is couple’s counseling?
Couples counseling can consist of in-person or telehealth therapy between marriage partners or between people who have a romantic relationship.
What is your therapeutic approach?
I utilize a structured treatment format using the evidence-based approach of the Gottman Method. The Gottman approach is a behavioral treatment that encourages couples to utilize various interventions as experiments in effort to determine which intervention yields them the most success.
In couples counseling, we will discuss your needs at length, including the function of your behaviors or ineffective patterns between you and partner. It is through this process that we discover more effective behaviors to increase support, friendship, intimacy and attachment.
This may include integration of new styles of communication, which will reduce arguing and increase problem solving behavior as well as enhances positive connections.
How do you measure success?
Similar to individual therapy, we will develop treatment goals and reevaluate treatment every 3 months to determine if we are effectively meeting your partnership goals.
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