What brings people in therapy/ how we start
Challenges such as poor communication, lack of intimacy, or frequent conflicts, get partners to therapy. They need to choose the same goal, to remain in relationship, or to discover their true self and agree to break up. We start with a common goal, fair communication and flexible expectations.
Common goals, a shared vision about the future, sexual attraction and lifestyle help people to have a long term relationship. However, focusing too much on keeping relationship alive is unhealthy.
It is good to spend enjoyable time with the other caring one about the other but not with the price of loosing their true self. We don’t have to depend emotionaly one of the other, but to be self sufficient giving and taking.
What to expect from couple psycotherapy
During therapy usually couples strengthen their relationship as they learn to understand their’s life partner perspective, accept each other’s needs and way of dealing with personal circumstances.
They expose assertive their expectations, the untold thoughts, explore the functionality of past relationships, discover what went well and wrong in the past and develop new skills to deal with different areas of conflict through active listening and disabling unrealistic expectations such as expecting the other to anticipate their needs and thoughts.
People learn techniques to calm down in stressful situations, to avoid self victimization, blaming the other or looking for revenge, learn how to prioritize their personal needs avoiding distress in their partner, and build a mature, safe and secure connection based on trust, open communication, respect and work ethics.
Individual and couple therapy simultaneously
In order to allow people to integrate what they were just about to uncover unsafely in couple therapy session, alongside of couples therapy can take place a few individual sessions.
Oftentimes is better to detach and first sort out the things internally before sharing with the other a personal storm.
Price / session | ||
Couple Therapy | RON 300 | |