Couple Counselling / Marriage Counselling / Relationship Counselling
Couple Counselling
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Couple counselling / Couple therapy can help in multiple scenarios. Some of them are intimacy issues, work-life balance, parenting, conflicts, communication issues, affairs – trust issues, adjustment – expectation issues and many more.
The couple could also face issues with other family members and parenting challenges with children.
The fast pace of life in today’s world, pressures at work and at home does take a toll on relationships.
In the couple relationship, conflicts may keep coming up and may not get resolved. Resentment and dissatisfaction creeps in and impacts your intimacy. The more you try to talk about it, the worse it becomes.
It would help to talk to a counsellor as a couple, in a professional and confidential setting. The counsellor is unbiased and will not take sides between you and your partner.
Couple therapy is for couples with issues of greater severity or long standing issues or deep issues that are impacting their relationship in a damaging way.
What can you expect in Couple Counselling / Couple therapy
- Counsellor is unbiased and professional
- Collaborative process to work on your goals, no predetermined agenda
- Identify maladaptive patterns in interactions
- Take responsibility for yourself and your relationship
- Better awareness, understanding, communication and conflict handling
- More realistic goals and expectations
- Effort through home works, role plays, change in thinking and behavior
You are encouraged to explore how your individual beliefs, values, background, experiences, thoughts, behaviour, attitudes etc. may be impacting your relationship.
Your counsellor will explore new ways to address, current pressing issues in your relationship.
And based on your goals, you will arrive at effective strategies to enhance the relationship in terms of health and satisfaction.
Counsellor may also give you home work to do by yourself or as a couple. Couple counselling process requires you to be willing to put in effort in to your relationship, take responsibility for yourselves and your relationship.
As a couple you may be encouraged to attempt new ways of thinking and behaviour, change maladaptive patterns, and learn new skills to work on your relationship.
Goals of the counselling process
It is the couple who determine their goals for their relationship in collaboration with the counsellor. The counsellor doesn’t work with a predetermined agenda. You would identify ineffective or maladaptive patterns in your interactions and communication.
The counsellor also observes how as a couple you manage or avoid conflicts among yourselves. You would learn to see things from the your partner’s perspective. You learn to make healthy boundaries for yourselves.
Currently all services are offered both in person at different locations in Bangalore or Online over Video Calls.
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