“Can psychotherapy fix my relations?”
I have bad relations with my husband. Can psychotherapy fix my relations?
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Hi, creative and somatic therapies can be incredibly effective for working with interpersonal relationships and conflicts. The length of treatment depends on your unique goals and needs. If you are in the United States then you can search for a provider who is licensed in your state. If you are within California - I have availability to accept new clients - please visit www.sylvansart.com for more information and to contact me directly.
Is it always you that needs fixed? Many times women fall victim to this but males won't admit their forthcomings. Is it maybe a couple therapy help? It could be hormones or stress. There are many factors to weigh in before that can be answered. Seek a metaphysician or spiritual advisor to see what is around you or going on to get an idea of the situation. Prayer also can help.
Yes, absolutely it can, however, there are no gaurentees/ I actually specialize in helping couples of all walks of life. It takes both partners working with one another to enhcnace clearer communication, being humble, compassionate, and being a team at problem solving.
Thank you for your question. Th short answer is yes. More specifically bough, a licensed marriage and family therapist is well equipped to help you with your marriage. If you are asking the question, your marriage must still be important to you. It does take “ two tango” and you both have to desire to work. Relationship are work whether good or bad, whether friendships or marriage. I love Ephesians 5:25; husbands love your wife as Christ loves the church (followers of Christ- not the buildings or denominations). What a calling and responsibility. Ephesians also reads in 5:23 … wives respect your husband…honor, appreciate, cheer for… but this must be earned. I believe it a miracle two people can come together and stay together in the first place, so marriage must be a divine calling. A good therapist, licensed and experienced will help you to discover what is distracting and taking away the intimacy and guide you back to the two being as one. Blessings and prayers!
couples therapy and family therapy can as well as individual theraoy
It can help, a couples therapist and individual therapist can both be helpful
It can help but it sounds more as if you need individual, or couples counseling
I would suggest that you find a Marriage and Family Therapist specializing in treating couples.
Both individual and couple treatment can help make marital relationships better. Doing both kinds of work at the same time can be particularly helpful. Here are a few things to keep in mind about psychotherapy and marriage.
There is a temptation in individual therapy to turn it into a gripe session about one's partner. If "venting" is all that's going on, however, this is unlikely to be helpful, as it may lead to a hardening of negative opinions and attitudes about your spouse. You want a therapist who will be able to hear you, but also empathically help you to reflect on what your own contributions to the conflict might be. It may be that relatively minor adjustments to your habitual ways of responding to your partner may lead to a "virtuous cycle" in which he in turn is more considerate, less annoying, etc.
That's the best-case scenario. Typically more is required, including a willingness on the part of the spouse to acknowledge that something is not going well in the relationship; that it's worth trying to fix it; and that both parties will need to make and effort to change the dynamic. It is certainly worth trying to do this with each other on your own. If this only leads to impasse and the same old conflicts, you should seek an experienced couple's counselor.
For this professional, their client is the couple, rather than either one of you individually. And it is best that if you have an individual therapist, that person should not also be your couple's therapist. It's not a good idea for a therapist to be wearing two hats in that fashion, and is likely to make your spouse feel outnumbered, and at a disadvantage from the start.
A good couple's counselor will probably initially focus on your strengths as a couple, and what drew you together, before addressing areas of conflict. In couple's counseling, you should be able to maintain a difficult conversation with your spouse that normally would get off track or out of control. This can be hard, even very tiring, but if it's working you will each begin to understand the other's perspective better, and to better accommodate each other's needs.
There is a temptation in individual therapy to turn it into a gripe session about one's partner. If "venting" is all that's going on, however, this is unlikely to be helpful, as it may lead to a hardening of negative opinions and attitudes about your spouse. You want a therapist who will be able to hear you, but also empathically help you to reflect on what your own contributions to the conflict might be. It may be that relatively minor adjustments to your habitual ways of responding to your partner may lead to a "virtuous cycle" in which he in turn is more considerate, less annoying, etc.
That's the best-case scenario. Typically more is required, including a willingness on the part of the spouse to acknowledge that something is not going well in the relationship; that it's worth trying to fix it; and that both parties will need to make and effort to change the dynamic. It is certainly worth trying to do this with each other on your own. If this only leads to impasse and the same old conflicts, you should seek an experienced couple's counselor.
For this professional, their client is the couple, rather than either one of you individually. And it is best that if you have an individual therapist, that person should not also be your couple's therapist. It's not a good idea for a therapist to be wearing two hats in that fashion, and is likely to make your spouse feel outnumbered, and at a disadvantage from the start.
A good couple's counselor will probably initially focus on your strengths as a couple, and what drew you together, before addressing areas of conflict. In couple's counseling, you should be able to maintain a difficult conversation with your spouse that normally would get off track or out of control. This can be hard, even very tiring, but if it's working you will each begin to understand the other's perspective better, and to better accommodate each other's needs.
Therapy can help you learn to change unhealthy patterns of behavior and communication which will allow for healthier relationships.
Psychotherapy is highly effective.
