MARRIAGE & RELATIONSHIP
Counseling, Treatments & Services
Often it seems the challenges outweigh the support within relationships. Therapists at Counseling Alliance® have advanced training, from internationally known experts to help you recover connection and hope for your relationship.
Contact us today, we'll place you with therapist specializing in marriage and relationship therapy and treatments. We offer hope.
What is Marriage Counseling?
How Does Marriage Counseling Work?
What Types of Treatments Do You Do in Marriage Therapy?
When Do We Need Marriage Counseling?
What is Marriage Counseling?
Marriage and Relationship counseling helps couples regain insight into their relationship, resolve conflict, discover and treat barriers to secure attachment, and increase relationship satisfaction through various therapeutic techniques.
If you feel that you and your partner need relationship counseling give us a call at Counseling Alliance®. We have offices located in Cincinnati and Beavercreek Ohio as well as telehealth options for residents of Ohio.
GROW Closer TOGETHER
The average length of time for couple to seek help for relational problems is 6 years. Dysfunctional patterns are well established by then. Don't wait. Seek help early.
How Does Couples Therapy Work?
Research shows that 80% of difficulties within a relationship are a result of problems the individuals bring with them into the relationship. As a result, both everyone must be committed to doing their own work as well as working to strengthen the relationship. One of the many ways our therapists address these issues is through assessments that provide insight into one's own personality dynamics. These assessments often provide clarity regarding the problems in the relationship and can in fact accelerate the healing journey.
At Counseling Alliance®, our therapists will help you understand each person's characteristics and behaviors. Our training and experience enables us to positively impact both personal and relationship barriers to a fulfilling relationship. Couple's counseling is not intended for one spouse to unpack anger, frustration, or other malicious actions towards their spouse. It's about unlocking strategies focused on passion, commitment, connection and everything that goes into a healthy relationship.
A Therapist can also help you with:
- Encouraging more two-way communication,
- Building more meaningful ways of communicating and thinking,
- Show different ways for a couple to display their love and support for each other,
- Address issues related to infidelity, or other problematic behaviors.
What Types of Treatments Do You Do in Couples Therapy?
Couples therapy is offered in the traditional 50-minute session format. This is probably the least effective approach because there is so little time to really work through the issues raised. For some, due a variety of reasons, this is their choice and if it is, that's okay.
Two to four hour sessions are much more effective. They can also be spaced out and doing so helps keep the cost low.
Our JUMPSTART TO HEALING® option is a very effective way to begin the healing journey. This has also proven to be a very desirable option for couples who live farther away. We have couples who travel to us from across the country to participate in Jumpstarts.
Call today to talk about treatment options or to schedule an appointment.
There is hope for a happier marriage.
“Did you know there are predictable stages in the decline of a marriage? We can help identify and repair your relationship. ”
When Do You Need Couples Therapy?
The average time between a couple having difficulties and seeking help is six years. In that time patterns of miscommunication, poor conflict resolution, problems with emotional connection and intimacy become deeply entrenched. Gridlock can occur and couples become stuck. Ideally, when you're not in a difficult situation you should find a therapist when the times are good—Here's why.
It's kind of like how you're supposed to have a relationship with a doctor before you get sick. It's nice in theory, but we're all busy in reality. Good doctors are hard to find and even harder to get into see. Most of us won't try to do the legwork if there's nothing wrong urgently.
Couples therapy can be preventive treatment. Life events such as job changes, moving to a new city, the birth of a new child, or other significant events are great opportunities to address issues which may prevent problems later on. Therapy can also be about improving another aspect of your relationship. Many couples experience perpetual problems that are irritants in the relationship but not necessarily threatening to the future of the relationship.
You and your spouse will be in a much better position to face larger problems if you are functioning well as a couple and have a connection with a supportive counselor. You won't have the added pressure to find a therapist in a rush, which is significant.
At Counseling Alliance®, we focus on both individuals in the relationship. Call us today to get started.
Why you should seek help for Couples Therapy
When problems exist, the faster you and your spouse can get into counseling, the better. The longer you wait, the more bad relationship habits (yelling, ignoring, and other behaviors) become common. As a result, the more difficult it is to break those bad habits.
Many people prefer to see couples counseling as an emergency rather than a preventive step. Couple's counseling is a great way to determine where you are at in your relationship, including how to get the most of it.
If problems do exist, the more quickly you find help the better. It is possible to regain the joy of your relationship.
Therapists at Counseling Alliance® have advanced training in helping couples become unstuck. We have experience working with issues of infidelity, addiction, communication, and a wide variety of other relationship problems. Take the first step in resolving your relationship problems by calling our office today for an appointment.
