What to Expect in Couples Therapy?

Written By Alejandro Pina

This might be the first time you’ve thought about pursuing couples therapy. Maybe you’re thinking about online couples counseling or couples therapy in person. Either way, you don’t know what to expect in couples therapy.

Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy is one of a few specific modalities that a therapist can train and specialize in. Other couples therapy types include; Gottman, and Imago. Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy will help you send the emotional messages you’ve wanted your partner to hear by first helping you understanding your own emotional responses.

Most couples expect to get surface level issues solved with couples counseling, but when working with an Emotionally Focused Couples Therapist, you will gain meaningful understanding to enhance support within your relationship.

Learn how couples therapy with Feel Understood helps build secure relationships:

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What Kind of Couples Therapy works Best for Interracial, Multicultural, BIPOC Partners and Couples?
What Kind of Couples Therapy works Best for Interracial, Multicultural, BIPOC Partners and Couples?

EFT is the most inclusive form of couples therapy because this approach only focuses on how each partner feels, and we all have emotions, whether or not we want to admit, or understand them. Learn how couples therapy with Feel Understood helps build secure relationships.

Is It Worth It To Go To Couples Therapy?
Is It Worth It To Go To Couples Therapy?

Understanding will transform a relationship for years to come, no matter what major transitions your relationship might go through.

How often should a couple go to couples therapy?
How often should a couple go to couples therapy?

Unfortunately, couples that avoid sessions are likely to be avoidant in their own relationship. The irony is that couples therapy can teach partners the benefits of not being avoidant

Does Couples Therapy for Cheating, or Couples Counseling for Infidelity Help?</span>
Does Couples Therapy for Cheating, or Couples Counseling for Infidelity Help?

I can guarantee that couples therapy with Feel Understood will surprise you with a thorough understanding of how infidelity happened in your relationship. There are so many factors and variables that you will not have considered, and discovering a clearer picture can be a relief.

Why Do Some Couples Prefer Doing Couples Therapy At An Office?</span>
Why Do Some Couples Prefer Doing Couples Therapy At An Office?

Couples that want to go to an office have a few misconceptions.

How To Rebuild trust?
How To Rebuild trust?

Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy is essential at helping couples repair past hurts; it’s not just about apologizing, but truly understanding all the different layers of how a partner was effected.

What is the Average Cost for Couples Therapy?</span>
What is the Average Cost for Couples Therapy?

Make a commitment with a couples therapist you find beneficial first, after time if you feel your rate is too high, talk with your therapist honestly to negotiate.

What is the No Secrets Rule in Couples Therapy?</span>
What is the No Secrets Rule in Couples Therapy?

Working separately in couples therapy is antithetical to building connection and security, which is why Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) never has partners working individually with their couples therapist.

What is Regain Couples Therapy, is Regain good?
What is Regain Couples Therapy, is Regain good?

Regain uses CBT because they can easily monitor minor surface level progression on paper…

Our Ritual Vs Regain / BetterHelp</span>
Our Ritual Vs Regain / BetterHelp

Our Ritual is an online platform marketed to couples to compete in the new era of gig-economy therapists. Think of Our Ritual and Regain as the DoorDash and Postmates.

How Does Couples Therapy Work?
How Does Couples Therapy Work?

Do therapists give relationship advice? Hopefully, the answer is no. Online couples therapy with a trained couples therapist is an opportunity for you and your partner to engage with each other in a productive and meaningful way.

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Relationship Advice / Relationship Tips

If you’re googling for quick solutions to solve your entire relationship, you’ll likely get a quick answer. Unfortunately, there is no one “tip” that can save your marriage or relationship. You deserve real answers and real solutions.

How to Talk To Your Partner About Couples Therapy?
How to Talk To Your Partner About Couples Therapy?

Following through on setting up a first couples therapy session with your partner can be tough. Everyone gets there differently. Sometimes you both don’t know what else to do and signing up together is easier. When only one of you feels that the relationship needs guidance it can be harder.

Benefits of Online Couples Counseling vs. In Person
Benefits of Online Couples Counseling vs. In Person

Having worked in-person pre-pandemic, I discovered that genuine therapeutic benefits increase when couples invest in TeleHealth sessions from their own homes.

Imagine learning how to communicate with your partner in an office. Guess when you’ll utilize that new form of communication? The answer is - back in that office.

What to Expect in Online Couples Therapy
What to Expect in Online Couples Therapy

What to talk about in couples therapy? How to prepare? What not to say? I can’t imagine how nerve-wrecking going into session can be. It’s hard enough to talk about our feelings to a therapist in private, it makes sense it would feel harder with our partner listening.

WHICH IS BETTER: BETTERHELP OR TALKSPACE?
WHICH IS BETTER: BETTERHELP OR TALKSPACE?

Thankfully, in our new era of mental health awareness more people are in Therapy. Unfortunately, more corporations, startups, and Silicon Valley entrepreneurs are interested in turning Therapy into profit. Think of BetterHelp and TalkSpace as the Uber and Lyft of mental health.

What to Expect in Couples Therapy?
What to Expect in Couples Therapy?

This might be the first time you’ve thought about pursuing couples therapy. Maybe you’re thinking about online couples counseling or couples therapy in person. Either way, you don’t know what to expect in couples therapy.

Feel Understood quoted in Huffington Post
Feel Understood quoted in Huffington Post

Sometimes a hunch is more than just a hunch: A new study suggests people are relatively good at predicting when their partner wants to end the relationship.

That’s the takeaway from a new study out of the Singapore Management University titled “When one’s partner wants out: Awareness, attachment anxiety and accuracy.”

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