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.

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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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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.

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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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