Counseling for Couples
Treatment Counseling for Couples – ETHOS HEALTH CARE
The basic concept of marriage counseling and couple counseling are same.But couple counseling and couple therapy goes further and has some unique aspects. And this unique nature is due the fact that this counseling or therapy has in focus a relationship which is the more diverse and complicated. Married people too make a couple but every couple is not necessarily married.
Salient features of couple counseling:
- Understanding the expectations
- Roles played by individuals
- Level of commitment
- Spacing and privacy
- Contribution in relationship
- Decision making in relationship
- Problem solving in relationship
- Trust and fidelity
- Time and money
- Extensions of relations
Couples therapy focuses on issues and problems existing in the relationship between two people – a couple. These issues can be due to common factors or individual factors. One may feel following symptoms indicative of relationship hitting rocks:
- Feeling of let down
- Feeling of ignored or unwanted
- Feeling of cheated
- Feeling of being used or abused
- Feeling of taken for granted
- Emotions like insecurity, anxiety, sadness or anger
In couples therapy, the therapist will help you in getting better understanding of the conflict issues and will help in deciding what changes are needed in you, your partner and in the chemistry between two of you. Therapist may use various psychological techniques including cognitive, behavior, rational emotive, transactional analysis etc to reach the desired goal of happy and vibrant relationship.
