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Intensive Couples Therapy: When to Seek More Help
Maybe you’re facing a crisis in your relationship. Maybe there are major transitions causing issues, or you can’t seem to stop fighting.
Healing After Betrayal: Using Intensives to Rebuild Trust
Being betrayed by your partner can foster a whirlwind of emotions. You’re perfectly entitled to feel pain, frustration, anger, grief, and everything in between.
What Is Intensive Couples Therapy, and How Is It Different from Weekly Sessions?
Intensive couples therapy offers concentrated therapy sessions that are typically longer than traditional weekly couples therapy.
What to Expect in Couples Therapy After Infidelity
Infidelity can feel like an earthquake in your relationship. In the aftermath, you may swing through a variety of emotions, including anger, grief, guilt, confusion, and everything in between.
What Are Your Expectations of Marriage? Why It's Necessary to Talk About Them
Most people walk into marriage filled with love, excitement, and hope for the future. But no matter how joyful the union, everyone brings a set of expectations into their marriage—whether they've talked about them or not.
Breaking the Cycle: Identifying Toxic Patterns in Your Relationships
Have you ever found yourself in a relationship that feels draining, confusing, and painfully familiar? Maybe you keep ending up with the same kind of partner, having the same arguments, feeling stuck in the same emotional loops.
From Diapers to Disagreements: How Couples Therapy Supports New Parents
Bringing a baby into the world is an incredible experience. But as a couple, it's also one of the biggest transitions you'll ever face.
Getting Married Soon? 7 Emotional Skills Every Couple Should Build First
Getting engaged is exciting! Suddenly, you have a wedding to plan, a ring on your finger, and countless details to coordinate.
Why Couples Fight: Unpacking the Real Issues Beneath Arguments
Every couple fights—even the healthiest, happiest couples in the world argue over seemingly silly things like dishes, money, and whose turn it is to walk the dog. Disagreements are simply part of being in a relationship.
Rebuilding Intimacy After an Affair: Is It Possible?
When infidelity happens in a relationship, intimacy is often a major casualty. Intimacy is built on trust, and when that foundation is shattered by cheating, it can feel impossible to connect with your partner the way you once did.
Are You Really Listening? Communication Skills Every Couple Needs
Every couple argues, misreads each other, or talks past one another at times. However, the problem often isn’t what you’re saying, it’s whether you’re really listening.
How to Create and Maintain Healthy Boundaries with Your Partner
Some people have misconceptions about what boundaries in a relationship look like. They aren’t disrespectful, and they aren’t supposed to be viewed as a strict set of rules that only apply to one person.
Break the Pattern: Learning from Your Past Relationships
Does it feel like you’ve had bad luck in relationships for too long? Maybe you can’t seem to make things work, and you’re not sure why.
Affair Recovery: When to Stay, When to Go, and How to Decide
The discovery of an affair can feel like the ultimate betrayal in your relationship. Whether it was physical, emotional, or both, that betrayal can feel like the ground has fallen out from under you.
Why Physical Intimacy Declines—And How to Reconnect
Physical intimacy isn’t the most important aspect of a relationship, but it’s certainly one of them. So, when it starts to decline, it can feel like you and your partner are on rocky ground—even if you’re not sure why.
Premarital Counseling: How to Stop the Blame Game and Start Understanding Each Other
When you’re struggling to effectively communicate in your relationship, it’s easy to start pointing fingers at each other. You might be quick to play the blame game with your partner, rather than choosing to start healthy communication habits.
Attachment Styles in Relationships: How They Shape Love and Conflict
We all have different attachment styles, formed from a very early age. Ideally, everyone would live with a secure attachment. That typically means you had parents or caregivers who met your needs and provided a sense of comfort and stability.
Affair Recovery: How to Navigate When One Partner Wants Therapy and the Other Doesn’t
Infidelity can destroy the trust and intimacy of any relationship. It takes time and effort by both partners to rebuild. Often, that’s not something you can (or should have to) do on your own.
Money Fights: How to Talk About Finances Without Blowing Up
Money and finances have long been a topic of contention for far too many couples. Maybe you like to save and your partner likes to spend. Maybe you argue about what you should spend your money on.
Are You In a Cycle of Breaking Up and Making Up? What to Do If Marriage Is Your Goal
As the old saying goes, breaking up is hard to do. That can feel especially true when you truly want to be with someone, but you keep going through a cycle of breaking up and making up.