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Couples Relationship Counselling

If you and your partner are going through a rough patch, couples therapy can help you work on your relationship and improve it.

Your therapist can help you express your feelings, discuss issues with your partner, and resolve conflicts.

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Pre-Marital Couples Counselling

Pre-marital counseling offers a neutral space for you and your partner to discuss and plan important aspects of your marriage.

A counselor can help guide you through these discussions so that they are result oriented.

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Couples Relationship Counselling

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If you and your partner are going through a rough patch, couples therapy can help you work on your relationship and improve it. Your therapist can help you express your feelings, discuss issues with your partner, and resolve conflicts.
Couples therapy can help increase understanding, respect, affection, and intimacy between you and your partner, which can help you be happier together.
Couples therapy is a form of psychotherapy that helps partners improve their relationship. If you are having relationship difficulties, you can seek couple’s therapy to help rebuild your relationship.
Couples therapy addresses a broad range of relationship issues, including repeating conflicts, disconnection, an affair, issues related to intimacy, or problems arising from stressors out of relationship such as in-laws, other family members.

Couples therapy can give you and your partner the opportunity to discuss and resolve issues related to several aspects of your relationship, which can include:
Roles: Couples therapy can help you sort out the respective roles (one or both works or household chores) you and your partner play in the relationship and address differences in expectations.
Familial relationships: Couples therapy can help you and your partner resolve issues stemming from conflicts with or because of family members, like in-laws, parents, children, and siblings.
Finances: may be a major source of conflict in relationships. Couples therapy can help promote open dialogue and transparency around income and spending habits.
Religious beliefs and values: Couples therapy can also address religious beliefs, values and the implications of these aspects on your daily lives, such as hijab, children education etc.

Children: If you and your partner are not on the same page about whether or not you want to have children or how you would like to raise them, couples therapy can help you communicate these concerns. It can also help with stressors like difficulty conceiving or adopting children.
Sex and intimacy: If you and your partner are having issues related to sex and intimacy, or infidelity, couples therapy can offer a safe space for you to share your feelings and needs.
Health issues: Physical or mental health illnesses can be hard on you and your partner. Couples therapy can help you deal with the stress it puts on your relationship.
External stressors: Therapy can also help you and your partner deal with conflicts caused by external factors, like work for instance, that can put stress on your relationship.

– Couples therapy improve relationship satisfaction, communication, forgiveness, problem solving, and resolution of needs and feelings. If you feel your relationship would benefit from couples therapy, discuss it with your partner and see if they’re open to it. If they’re resistant to it, explain why it’s important to you and how you think it might help your relationship.

– Couples therapy ideally requires participation from you and your partner. However, if your partner is not open to it, you can also opt to do couples therapy alone, to better understand your relationship and how you can improve it. If you and your partner undertake it together, you may find that one or both of you also need separate therapy sessions to help deal with the issues brought up in couples’ therapy.

Pre-Marital Couples Counseling

Premarital counseling offers a neutral space for you and your partner to discuss and plan important aspects of your marriage. A counselor can help guide you through these discussions so that they are productive.
Moreover, premarital counseling equips you with tools that can help you and your partner communicate better with each other and resolve conflicts constructively.
Premarital counseling is a form of couples therapy that can help you and your partner prepare for marriage.
It is intended to help you and your partner discuss several important issues, ranging from finances to children so that you are both on the same page. It can also help identify potential conflict areas and equip you and your partner with tools to navigate them successfully. Premarital counseling aims to help you build a strong foundation for marriage.

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Premarital counseling involves discussing important aspects of a marriage, including financial planning, roles in the marriage, decision-making processes, family relationships, children and how you wish to raise them, etc.
Your counselor will also assess the dynamic between you and your partner during counseling sessions and use those insights to guide the course of the therapy.
Premarital counseling offers an opportunity to discuss several important aspects of a marriage such as finances, religion, continue work / education, roles in the marriage, children (when and how many), joint family relationships.

Benefits of Premarital Counseling

Premarital counseling is designed to equip you and your partner with tools to navigate married life together. These are some of the benefits this therapy can offer:
Learn constructive communication: A core aspect of premarital counseling is communication, as “partners learn to convey their positions clearly without attacking or arming the other,” says Romanoff.
Develop conflict resolution skills: Premarital counseling also teaches you and your partner problem-solving and conflict-resolution skills. “Initially, communication often leads to conflict, but with time, couples can have more constructive discussions,” says Romanoff.
Focus on the positive aspects: Premarital counseling can help you and your partner focus on the positive aspects of your relationship rather than the negative.

Eliminate dysfunctional behavior: Premarital counseling can identify unhealthy behaviors and patterns in a relationship and help you correct them.
Build decision-making processes: Premarital counseling can help you and your partner develop healthy and equitable decision-making processes.
Alleviate fears related to marriage: If you or your partner are anxious about what married life will entail, premarital counseling can help you discuss important issues and give you some clarity.
If you take part in premarital counseling, you may find that you also want to see a counselor or therapist separately to deal with the issues you encounter in your joint sessions.

–  Couples therapy will often uncover unexpected personal reactions and experiences that have been well buried. Frequently, couples decide to initiate individual therapy to have their own space to process all that it brings up for them.

–  It’s also worth noting that while premarital counseling aims to help strengthen the bond between you and your partner, it could also expose irreconcilable differences in your personalities or expectations.
In that case, you and your partner are probably better off discovering and discussing these issues before you get married.