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My go-to approach for helping people in couples/marriage counseling is the Gottman Method. I find the best benefit in the Gottman Method because it assists couples with improving affection, increasing communication, and decreasing obstacles that might cause conflict in the relationship.
I teach the following tools in couples/marriage counseling:
I know a client is making meaningful progress in couples/marriage counseling when they report an increasing ability to utilize communication skills that are taught in the counseling sessions.
Clients can supplement their time in couples/marriage counseling by actively practicing the skills that are taught in-session during their day-to-day encounters.
To prepare for your first couples/marriage counseling session, you can discuss the kind of life you want to build together and the type of partner you aspire to become in order to build that life.
Thriveworks Couples therapy helps couples work through their specific relationship issues. It is led by licensed professionals — often licensed marriage and family therapists (LMFTs) — who are experts in their field and best-equipped to help couples. Some examples of common focuses within couples therapy include:
Couples therapy works by helping couples identify and better navigate their unique challenges. Following an initial assessment of the couple in terms of strengths and needs, the therapist would then discuss their therapeutic goals and any possible approaches or ways of working together as therapist and couple.
Couples attend sessions together, whether they meet in person or by video. In addition to regular couples therapy sessions, each partner may also be asked to attend a few individual sessions to supplement their progress. This will allow their counselor to get to know each individual better, assess each of their personal needs, and develop the very best treatment plan moving forward.
Couples therapy at Thriveworks is conducted both in person and via Online therapy. We encourage you to choose the option that works best for you and your partner.
On average, couples attend couples therapy for 12 weeks. However, couples therapy may last longer or shorter, dependent on the couples’ needs, the challenges they’d like to work through, and the pace of their progress.
The author Nathaniel Hawthorne once wrote, “Love, whether newly born, or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, that it overflows upon the outward world.” Marriage therapists might call this a bit of an exaggeration. Love doesn’t always create sunshine. Sometimes it creates thunderstorms, blizzard conditions, and cloud cover that last for days. Intimate relationships can get messy. But the real love connection between two people often makes up for the periods of turmoil and distress.
Couples therapy and marriage counseling at Thriveworks in Woodridge, IL is a way for people who love each other to learn to weather storms successfully. Relationship counseling is typically short-term (successful in fewer than 12 sessions), solution-focused, and individualized for each couple’s issues. But couples don’t need to be on the verge of divorce or separation to benefit from relationship therapy. The licensed professionals at Thriveworks can give people the tools they need to maintain enduring harmony in their relationships as well.
Marriage counseling is one of the most effective forms of professional therapy. It helps clients successfully address their own relationship goals, no matter what they may be. Some common goals that bring clients to the exceptional licensed marriage and family therapists (LMFTs) at Thriveworks in Woodridge, IL include the following:
A couples counselor at Thriveworks in Woodridge, IL uses a variety of therapeutic approaches and techniques to solve problems and enhance communication between loved ones. These approaches include the following:
Using these approaches, a counselor can help clients navigate complex interpersonal issues like these:
It is never too late in a relationship to pursue couples counseling. Some divorced couples even go to couples counseling sessions so they can better communicate about child custody and parenting issues. In these cases, couples therapy might be more like family therapy. The goal isn’t to improve romantic attachment, but to foster mutual understanding. But great couples therapists can bring couples back from the brink of separation by helping them remember what brought them together in the first place. Therapy can also reinforce the strengths of a relationship. As long as both people in a relationship have a glimmer of connection, couples counseling at Thriveworks in Woodridge, IL can help clarify their bond.
Before you and your spouse or partner decide on a couples counselor, it’s important to bear a few criteria in mind.
Thriveworks in Woodridge, IL can’t promise to repair your relationship when it’s broken, but it can promise to help diagnose what’s wrong. Then therapists can give people the effective tools to repair their bonds themselves. A therapist’s job isn’t to assign blame or to tell one partner they’re doing something wrong. Their job is to facilitate open dialogue and help each partner see the other’s point of view. What people who love each other do with this vital information is up to them.
Call Thriveworks today and you can meet with a fully licensed, highly qualified counselor as early as tomorrow. Most new clients can meet their provider within 24-48 hours of their initial call. They can also access their provider between sessions by phone or email.
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Includes individual, couples, child/ teen, & family therapy
Includes reducing symptoms with medication & management
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