Couples Therapy in Gainesville, FL

What is it?

Couples therapy is a form of psychotherapy that can help you and your partner improve your relationship. If you are having difficulties with your significant other, you can seek couple’s therapy.

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Frequently Asked Questions

  • What can couples therapy help with?

    • Roles in the relationship: it can help you examine the roles you and your partner play and identify unhealthy dynamics and patterns. 
    • Finances: finances can be a major cause of conflict in relationships.
    • Sex and intimacy: if you and your partner are having intimacy issues, therapy can offer a safe space to express your feelings and needs. 
    • Children: if you are having concerns about deciding to have children or how you would like to raise them, it can help you both get on the same page.

  • What are some benefits of couples therapy?

    • Improve your communication skills: it can help you and your partner to express yourselves without attacking or blaming each other. 
    • Resolve conflicts: you can walk through issues and solve them.
    • Get an impartial sounding board: having a therapist who you both trust that can listen and then give honest, impartial, and unbiased feedback. 
    • Restore trust: trust issues can come from infidelity, a lack of honesty, or financial struggles. In therapy, you can explore how it was broken and work on forgiveness. 

  • What are some disadvantages of couples therapy?

    Unfortunately, this doesn’t guarantee that all your problems will be solved. Some sessions may reveal a person’s past in painful ways that might make them feel too vulnerable to continue. Sometimes a couple will discover they do not want to stay together after therapy. 

  • Can you see me individually and also see me and my partner as a couple?

    If you come in for couples therapy but are in need of doing some trauma work on your own, we can assign both you and your partner an individual therapist, and then we will all have a collaborative approach to get the best outcome from the situation. 

According to Brian Mueller, a PhD psychologist at Columbia University Medical Center, “Couples therapy can address a wide range of relationship issues, including recurring conflicts, feelings of disconnection, an affair, issues related to sex, or difficulties due to external stressors”. It can help you regardless of your marital status, age, religion, race, sexual orientation, or the stage of your relationship.

Despite the fact that divorce rates have been hovering between 40 and 50 percent, there is still hope for those who have a strong desire to make it work. A research made in 2019 revealed that 75% of couples who did couples therapy believed they were better off after counseling.

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