What is couples therapy?

Couples therapy involves working together with a therapist who is trained to help you both have important conversations and ask questions to prompt you to move forward. The therapist is impartial, non-judgmental, and can help you gain perspective on the situation and ensure that both parties are being fairly given the opportunity to express themselves.

Couples’ therapy aims to help you:

• Understand how outside factors such as family values, religion, lifestyle and culture affect your relationship.

• Reflect on the past and how it operates in the present.

• Communicate in a more constructive way.

• Learn why arguments escalate.

• Negotiate and resolve conflicts where possible.

Therapy doesn’t guarantee to ‘fix’ things, but the hope is that it will help you overcome your challenges. If, on the other hand, these prove insurmountable, you will both have had the opportunity to voice your individual perspectives and make the decision knowing that you have given the relationship every chance.

How does it work?

• The duration of therapy will be discussed with your therapist at the beginning and at regular check-ins during the course of therapy, as this will be dependent on the nature of your problems and goals.

• Your therapist is likely to make suggestions and give you homework tasks to do on your own or with your partner between sessions.

• Depending on the situation, your therapist might also talk to you both individually for portions of the appointment, or in separate appointments altogether.

• There are decades of research into the effectiveness of couples therapy.

Expert Therapy can offer couples therapy delivered by our extremely experienced therapists. If you’re ready to move forward with an in-depth assessment, use the button below to book an appointment.

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