Explore, recognize, and resolve conflicts in an effort to improve your relationships and interactions and build a sustainable, longterm foundation. Relationship therapy services, or couples counseling, is a type of psychotherapy, or talk therapy, designed to help partners develop healthy habits and improve in their relationship.
Couples counseling is designed for all types of couples in various stages of partnership, from dating to engagement to marriage, and even to navigating the possibility or affects of divorce. Our team of relationship therapists work with couples with solution-minded counseling techniques to resolve conflict, improve communication, enhance romance and intimacy, and prepare for the future.
Couples therapy can help increase understanding, respect, affection, and intimacy between you and your partner, which can help you be happier together. We support you working through communication techniques, resolving conflict, discussing sex and intimacy, and more. Improve the mental and relational health between you and your partner through our couples counseling services.
We work with married couples who are looking to improve their marriage by resolving conflict, improving communication, and increasing intamcy, or couples who are contemplating or working through divorce. Divorce counseling helps couples prepare the relationship and family by providing coping mechanisms for divorce.
You feel an overwhelming, prolonged sense of helplessness and sadness.Our team works with couples prior to getting married through couples counseling services and premarital counseling. Premarital counseling helps identify core beliefs, set realistic expectations for marriage, plan for the future, and decide the ways in which your lives will be merged.
Our team of counselors work with couples of all types including LGBTQ+ relationships to help navigate and improve partnerships. Address societal stigmas, navigate difficult times, enhance intimacy and improve communciation around sex, and resolve counflict with our LGBTQ-considerate therapists.
Work through relationship problems and improve your mental health as a couple from the comfrot and convenience of your own home. Our therapists are licensed to assist any Washington state resident through secure telehealth services. Our online therapy model allows you and your partner to get access to quality care and relationship therapy services when you need it, no matter where you live, from Seattle to Tri Cities, and beyond.
Our team will walk you and your partner through the process of setting up your virtual therapy portal so you can get access your counseling services with ease and get started on your journey to healing and wellness.
We are a supportive group of clinicians who value working collaboratively to help make a difference in our communities. We believe that everyone deserves to be valued for who they are, to be seen and to be safe, in a professional remote environment.
Therapy is not one-size fits all, but we use scientific and holistic practices to help us pinpoint specific issues to help you find customized couples counseling solutions. We use cognitive behavioral therapy disciplines to develop personalized treatment plans for each couple and their unique circumstances. There are many benefits to engaging with couples counseling to improve your partnership through any stage of your relationship. Here are some of the top benefits of relationship therapy:
Couples often experience tension when there is a lack of understanding about themselves or each other, prompting questions such as is the power in the relationship balanced? Are the responsibilities shared? Do we fall into specific communication patterns, negative or positive, that cause conflict or tension? How is conflict handled?
Partnering with a couples counselor can help individuals meet in the middle of the relationship to better understand the overall dynamic of the relationship and the different elements each individual brings with them, in order to create structures or routines to better navigate responsibilities, communication, conflict resolution, and future planning.
When you better understand your partner and the relationship dynamics, you are more likely to feel happier in your relationship and be able to communicate better with your partner.
It's important to approach conflict with empathy and compassion for your partner. With relationship therapy, you have the opportunity to work through conflict by using an impartial sounding board, someone you both trust and can rely on to give honest feedback that is intended to progress conversation and keep you on focused.
Working with a couples counselor allows us to look into the relationship through a new perspective. That neutral party can listen to both sides and give you constructive feedback about what they’re hearing, which might make all the difference in helping to find resolution.
Relationship therapists can also help the couple beyond conflicts, helping to prevent conflict or tension by being a safe place to talk through possible new directions you are considering for the relationship, such as relocation or long distance, progressing the relationship forward such as moving in together or getting married, and more. A counselor can help you work through potential outcomes and understand how decisions and changes could effect your relationship or alter and align your goals as a couple.
Being vulnerable and expressing your feelings is natively difficult for many people and can be even more difficult to approach in the context of a relationship. Whether you are outwardly expressive with your feelings or avoidant and internalize them to prevent hurting your partner's feelings, it's important to learn how to express your feelings in a healthy and open way.
Couples therapy creates a safe space where boundaries are set and enforced, and a neutral third party oversees the process and can intervene when necessary. This means both of you can learn to really open up and communicate effectively, while still feeling that you’re safe.
Oftentimes, couples seek therapy after trust has been lost within the relationship. Whether there was dishonesty, an act of infidelity, or something else, it's important to navigate the relationship with a sense of respect and compassion for each partner. A couples counselor can help by creating a safe space to not only discuss what occurred that broke the trust, but help work through steps of restoring trust in the relationship.
Forgiveness, boundaries, expectations, and honesty are all areas a relationship therapist is skilled to help you navigate while healing from any brokenness or hurt within the relationship. With the right tools, you can really begin to form a solid foundation to rebuild your relationship.
Intimacy is a common problem for many relationships, especially when you’ve been together for a long time and it feels like that spark has dimmed. Even in new relationships, couples are often looking for ways to better communicate wants, needs, and desires.
Couples counseling provides a safe space for couples to talk openly about the physical intimacy of the relationship and establish healthy boundaries and communication are sex and sex positivity.
Working on communication and respect in therapy can allow the intimacy aspect to follow, often naturally. When we feel loved and understood, we’re more in tune with each other and feel more connected.
Whether the relationship has been hurting for a long time or the concept of breaking up is freshly on the table, navigating the possibility or process of divorce can be very daunting and even cause further tension and conflict on the relationship.
Divorce counseling can help you establish healthy coping mechanisms, provide emotional support and validation, teach you techniques for co-parenting and addressing the divorce within a family, and create space for healthing for future relationships and individual growth.
Family therapy and counseling for divorce can empower families to adjust to major life changes and can offer the opportunity to gain greater insight into each other's feelings and perspectives surrounding the divorce, ultimately allowing families to heal together while still maintaining healthy boundaries between each other.
Each of our therapists are licensed and insured in the state of Washington and are experienced and equipped to help you experience healing.
We proudly represent a care team of diverse, expert mental health professionals who work collaboratively to make a difference in our communities.
Our professional counselors work collaboratively with you to ensure your counseling program is customized to your unique needs and is solution-focused.
We currently offer telehealth services, providing virtual therapy from the comfort and convenience of your home.
We make it easy for you to schedule your virtual counseling sessions through our online therapy portal and excellent customer service.
Our goal is to ensure you feel comfortable and equipped in your counseling services and will match you with another mental health professional at no cost at your request.
Quality care through the convenience of technology – start your virtual relationship therapy services today and access your online Therapy Portal anytime.
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