Couples/Marriage Counseling – Counselors and Therapists in Franklin, MA
Thriveworks couples counseling and marriage counseling can help address all types of relationship issues. Call us or reach out to schedule online to get started.
What Will Relationship Counseling Help Me with?
Relationship counseling can take several forms and employ different methods. Types of counseling can include:
- Relationship counseling
- Marriage counseling
- Couples counseling
- Family Therapy
Relationship counseling is the process of helping individuals recognize the source of the difficulties, better manage or reconcile their differences and stop repeating patterns of stress that they may be placing on the relationship. This process my take place between members of a family, partners in a romantic relationship, employees in a workplace, or between a professional and a client. Relationship counseling may focus on a specific issue that the parties involved need help to find an objective solution. Therefore, the process for these brief therapy or solution focused therapy sessions may be short-term lasting between 1 to 6 sessions.
Couple’s therapy is a subset of relationship counseling. Since couples counseling often takes place between individuals in a long-term relationship the process may be longer in duration. The process of couples counseling will often may be between 12 and 24 sessions. The Couples therapy sessions focus on ongoing problems with a longer history, where emotions involved in the problem are often the target and the agent of change.
Marriage counseling or marital therapy is a subset of Couples’ therapy where a lifetime commitment was agreed upon at the onset of the relationship. One or both spouses may feel that an aspect of that commitment has been violated. Or, while both spouses may continue to be committed to the relationship, the spouses’ patterns for dealing with emotionally charged issues make it difficult for them to resolve differences.
Family therapy works with families to nurture change and development. It tends to view change in terms of the systems of interaction between family members. It emphasizes family relationships as an important factor in psychological health.
There are various methods to relationship counseling. One treatment that has shown to be effective is called Integrative Behavioral Couples Therapy. Research has shown Integrative Behavioral Couples Therapy to be effective for 69% of couples in treatment. Integrative Behavioral Couples Therapy focuses on the patterns of interactive behavior between individuals within a relationship. Destructive and maladaptive patterns are identified and replaced with constructive and adaptive patterns.
However, other forms of Relationship therapy have been shown to be effective as well. More traditional models of relationship counseling have been shown to be effective for 50-60% of couples studied. At a five-year follow-up, the marriages of the 134 couples who had participated in couples therapy were helped in 62% of these relationships.
Why Pursue in Relationship Counseling?
Relationship counseling can be helpful in resolving:
- Communication difficulties
- Problems with in-laws and extended family
- Anger issues, yelling, emotionally charged outbursts
- Dependency/co-dependency
- Family planning, whether or not to have children
- Parenting issues and disagreements
- Jealousy, lack of trust
- Unresolved issues from past relationships
- Adultery/infidelity
- Overscheduled lives, “Passing each other in the night”
Why Choose Thriveworks Franklin Counselors?
Thriveworks family and marriage therapists can help you develop the relationships that you want and deserve. Call or schedule online to get started.
