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Wellness Services | Couples Therapy

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Looking to Improve Your Relationships?

Whether you’re newly dating or have been married for decades, relationships can be hard. At some point in your partnerships, you’ll likely experience:

  • Being in one of the many possible stages of a relationship — dating, engaged, premarital, married, entering into parenthood, empty-nesting, separated, coparenting or divorced
  • Being the parent of a child with violent tendencies, behavioral issues, trouble with peer relationships, difficulty in school, alcohol or drug use, or other issues
  • Being a relationship in crisis
  • Infidelity
  • Communication issues
  • Blended-family issues
  • Learning how to resolve conflict
  • We use the Gottman Method for Couples therapy as the basis for our treatment planning.
  • The Gottman Method is an approach to couples therapy that includes a thorough assessment of the couple’s relationship and integrates research-based interventions based on the Sound Relationship House Theory. The goals of Gottman Method Couples Therapy are to disarm conflicting verbal communication; increase intimacy, respect, and affection; remove barriers that create a feeling of stagnancy; and create a heightened sense of empathy and understanding within the context of the relationship.

    Learn more about Gottman Method Couples Therapy here. Most of our CE courses and certification in Gottman Method Couples Therapy are also relevant in non-clinical settings for other professionals who work with couples.

    See The Gottman Method in action and learn ways to apply it with your couples in practice with the Art and Science of Love.

  • Gottman Method Couples Therapy

    Couples who enter into Gottman Method Couples Therapy begin with an assessment process that then informs the therapeutic framework and intervention.

 

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Assessment

A conjoint session, followed by individual interviews with each partner are conducted. Couples complete questionnaires and then receive detailed feedback on their relationship.

  • Check out the online assessment tool the Gottman Relationship Checkup. Created by Drs. John and Julie Gottman, Affective Software, Inc., and The Gottman Institute, this online couples assessment tool automatically scores a relationship’s strengths and challenges and provides specific recommendations for intervention.

    Therapeutic Framework
    The couple and therapist decide on the frequency and duration of the sessions.

    Therapeutic Interventions
    Interventions are designed to help couples strengthen their relationships in three primary areas: friendship, conflict management, and creation of shared meaning. Couples learn to replace negative conflict patterns with positive interactions and to repair past hurts. Interventions designed to increase closeness and intimacy are used to improve friendship, deepen emotional connection, and create changes which enhances the couples shared goals. Relapse prevention is also addressed.

 

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