Are You Ready for Relationship Therapy?
Any type of talk therapy is often a decision made after a long road of effort using many other guidance sources.
One example is the emotional support from close friends who empathize with your hurt and feeling worn out by almost predictable clashes with a loved one.
While the genuine care of your friends does offer comfort, it is also probable your friends align with your way of seeing and handling the relationship problem at hand.
Your friends may not see the ways in which your sincere efforts to improve a certain relationship, possibly work against your own interest.
If well intended conversations with friends run out of new approaches and useful suggestions for you to try in your unsettled relationship, then you most likely are Therapy Ready!
What happens during Relationship Therapy Sessions?
Relationship Therapy builds on the basic ways of relating you already feel are satisfying.
We start the work with recognizing your foundational principles and expectations of meaningful relationships.
Then, we look for the obstacles, contradictions, gaps, between your theories and the realities of the particular problematic relationship.
The goal is to find out why your theories are less effective than you’d like them to be!
If you are in Relationship Therapy as an Individual, we gently reflect on dynamics in your relationship timeline which are similar to those you currently feel.
By discovering blindspots in the logic of your emotions, we learn which patterns of relating to dissolve and how to go about doing so.
If you are in Relationship Therapy with a Partner or Family
The work similarly includes reflecting on which patterns within the relationship or family interactions repeat unhappy results, and then work together as a group on developing new growth in the way partners or family members get along more happily.
In all forms of Relationship Therapy, the sessions include “practice” for clients to apply their growing new relating positions.