Relationship Counselling /Â Marital Counselling
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Relationship & Marital Counseling
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Relationship counselling is essential to strengthen and flourish the relationship which could have unhealthy patterns which could be damaging to the relationship.
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The importance of a Relationship Counselor is through therapy the counselor can help the couple to identify and analyse the behaviour pattern and trigger points that could be leading to conflicts/ arguments in a relationship.
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At times , when there are arguments in a relationship, it tends to get worse due to blaming each other , labelling the other person in order to defend oneself or even at times lead to stone walling the other person which leads to turning away from each other, henceforth the relationship counselor can be a Mediator for encouraging a healthy and help in improving the communication , the counselor also plays a role in creating a realistic expectations of how the other wants the relationship to be, and can ease our hope so that the partner doesn’t feel pressurised . Sometimes the partners confuse the emotion anger with behaviours attached to anger.
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Anger is an emotion but but is often taken out in unhealthy ways such as blaming,labelling (eg: you are a coward/ you are so dumb), criticising, shaming which could be damaging to the relationship and a counselor helps to bring in peace in the relationship.
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Our Unmet Childhood Attachment Needs often tend to start sowing up in our relationship.For instance: when we are being shamed as a child when we make a mistake , the need to feel worthy and lovable is unmet due to which in our relationship when our partner expresses dislike towards an action we tend to become overly defensive.
How couple therapy can help your relationship:
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There are multiple reasons as to why couples struggle in maintaining a strong and healthy relationship , and a therapist would help you in making it easier for you.
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Couple therapy would help you in communicating problems in a way that creates lasting resolutions and can help you in understanding how unmet childhood attachment need fuels your patterns of conflict.
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A relationship counsellor helps couples by creating a safe space where they can share their thoughts, feelings and emotions and use it to help them understanding each other better. It focuses on communication issues, stress, anxiety, personal and professional life balance.
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A relationship counsellor focuses on listening to the couples’ issues with empathy, and the confidentiality that they are safe to express themselves. Emotion plays an important role in in identifying and understanding the issues of the couples and how it affects their overall behaviour.
How does couple therapy work:
There would be initial session of couple therapy in which the counselor would be addressing together after which there would be a couple of individual sessions for each to discuss and explore other areas in which the therapist would be working on with each couple , after which the couple therapy would resume with both partners together on a session.
How Therapy works in couple therapy:
The therapist would help the couple gain insight into the relational dynamics in maintaining a relationship as well as help the partners in understanding the roles of unhealthy ways of communication during conflict and would give them tips to handle it in a more insightful and efficient way.the couple therapist would often assign homework in which the partners would be able to apply the skills they have learned during therapy sessions until the next counseling session.
- Communication is the corner stone of a healthy relationship, through therapy you’d learn about this importance and better ways of communication.
- Therapy will help you speak your mind and understand various perspectives of what you and your partner might be dealing with. It’s a safe space to help you and your partner work on your communication skills.
- Conflicts are bound to arise at some time in relationships; Through therapy, you and your partner will be able to better understand your conflicts and learn to work through them in a healthy and productive manner. Proper conflict resolution is a necessary tool for a healthy and well-rounded relationship.
- when there is a struggle in communication and the couple always end in conflict which leads to stone walling and the couple turn against each other that is when a relationship counselor can play a major role in helping the client recognise the unhealthy pattern in the relationship.
- The therapist can share some tips, tools and techniques by which the couple can enhance their relationship and bring in healthy ways of coping mechanism which could be a win - win for both in the relationship.
- This is a subjective question and through therapy you’d be able to assess the relationship and identify what works and what might not work for you and your partner. These sessions can help you garner a better understanding of what you need to identify if the relationship is working for you or not and how you can go about it.
When we are triggered by a certain situation, we tend to react in a way which makes us believe it wasn’t in our control to handle it in a better way, or we tend to think it’s just a reaction to the action that just happened, from Therapy the counselor addresses our feelings as well as tries to go in depth about the underlying struggle that led us to feel triggered, analysis makes us reflect on our behaviour. The counselor addresses the unmet childhood attachment needs and helps us in healing it and overcoming it
