Couples Counseling Begins with an Intake Appointment
All counseling sessions start with an Intake Appointment. This is when your counselor inquires and assesses your needs in order to create a counseling plan. Follow-up appointments will be provided thereafter.
Every couple experiences ups and downs in their levels of closeness and harmony over time. This can range from basic concerns of stagnation to serious expressions of aggressive behavior. Marriage counseling or couples counseling can help resolve conflicts and heal wounds. Overall, couples counseling can help couples slow down their spiral and reestablish realistic expectations and goals.
How counseling can help.
Therapists help clients with mental or emotional problems or disorders. They accomplish this through the related terms of counseling, therapy, and psychotherapy. A counselor is qualified to evaluate and treat mental problems by providing counseling or psychotherapy.
How counseling can resolve a life challenge?
According to the American Psychiatric Association, psychotherapy helps people understand that they can do something to improve their situation. That leads to changes that enhance healthy behavior, whether it's improving relationships, expressing emotions better, doing better at work or school, or thinking more positively.
Couples counseling appointments can be with any significant other – including dating partners and spouses. Please attend your first appointment together, or talk to your counselor prior to your first session.
Typical Topics:
- Communication problems
- Conflict resolution problems
- Financial issues
- Trust/boundary matters
- Commitment questions
- Sexual/intimacy concerns
- Co-parenting
- Division of labor
- Revitalizing long-term committed relationships
- Premarital concerns
- Relationship stress due to various life issues (health, career, finances, etc.)
Benefits of Counseling
The counseling process is, in many ways, like an educational experience. The individual can learn more about him/herself, but also acquires new skills. Sometimes, counseling involves learning more about a particular condition (e.g., depression, anxiety, eating disorders) by which the person is affected, so that he/she can better understand treatment options.
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