Client profiles:
Your relationship is in the throes of constant arguments and power battles. It consumes all the energy in the relationship. You feel exhausted and you find it hard to understand how you got there when you basically love each other. You don’t know how to get out of it.
You no longer have a desire for intimacy with your partner (this can be emotional, sexual, etc).
Something has happened between you two, and it just doesn’t feel right anymore. Maybe there was a breach of trust, the other crossed your boundaries. You feel completely let down and disengaged.
You are afraid of being abandoned and your strategies to cope with that are taking a toll on the relationship and driving your partner away making it worse. You realize there are attachment styles differences at play but don’t know exactly what is going on, nor how to address these.
Infidelity has made its entrance in your relationship. You, your partner or both have (had) an affair that jeopardizes the future of the relationship.
Your partner (or both) have a substance abuse problem with significant social and financial impacts, domestic abuse or child abuse consequences.
You are in an intercultural relationship and are experiencing communication difficulties and cultural differences or misunderstandings.
You and your partner might have very different value systems and strongly disagree on parenting styles, financial planning, cultural activities or other areas that intersect with both your lives
More on couple counseling
Sessions revolve around communication, expressing your feelings and your needs. Sometimes this starts by acquiring news skills and a new perception of the other and oneself. Learning to listen is often the first step. Hearing difficult things can also be part of couple counseling. Couple counseling frequently involves having both partners present, but not always.
In general, couple counseling allows for a deepening of the relationship, the discovery of new emotional dimensions within as well as between partners and can be an extremely enriching experience from an existential point of view.
While it’s often said, that doesn’t make it any less true: Partners often function as a mirror to each other, revealing who they are and what they do, for better or for worse.
