What Is Couples Counselling?
Couples counselling and relationship therapy is a type of counselling that aims to provide guidance and advice to improve relationships and resolve disagreements.
There has been a significant increase of 13.6% in the number of divorces, from 49,510 divorces in 2020 to a total of 56,244 in 2021. Divorces and break-ups arise due to a number of different relationship issues that are not properly resolved and therefore both parties fail to understand each other. More often than not, it leads to a loss of connection, and detrimental effects on your mental and emotional states. This could be you and your partner if you do no seek couples counselling.
What Are Common Relationship Issues?
All relationships go through ups and downs. However, it is important to recognise the difference between having healthy conflict understanding each other’s needs, how to successfully fulfil them and having extreme and intense arguments that leave you feeling anxious, scared, or depressed.
These concerns can be addressed and resolved with couples counselling:
Communication problems
Self-esteem issues
Lack of trust
Expectations
Loss of intimacy
Affairs
Changing lifestyles
Dishonesty
Sexual difficulties
Manipulative or abusive behaviour
Extended family issues
Lack of effort and one-sidedness behaviour
Monetary issues
There are also many other factors that position relationships in a poor state, such as stress, work pressures and lack of quality time together.
Why Is Couples Counselling Essential?
Couples counselling addresses all concerns and issues you may have in your relationship. But it also does so much more. More importantly, couples counselling will
Improve the way you communicate with your partner
Help you gain a greater understanding of each other’s needs and how to fulfil them
Assist you in developing healthy boundaries
Reduce and minimise the number of unhealthy arguments
Help identify unhealthy and recurring patterns or cycles
Diminish toxic or manipulate behaviours
Re-establish both emotional and sexual intimacy, trust and togetherness
Help you learn how to nurture your relationship strengths and identify your relationship weaknesses
Improve you and your partner’s mental and emotional wellbeing
Lead to personal growth as couples counselling can help identify and understanding your own setbacks
Conclusion
Conflict exists in all types of relationships. It is extremely important that we ensure we are in relationships that are thriving. Couples counselling and relationship theory helps resolve relationship issues in a healthy manner and provides an avenue for you and your partner to restore a sense of connection, trust, and love.
Inner Eastern Psychology offer many other services such as anxiety counselling, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, grief therapy, depression counselling, and more.
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