Couples therapy usually means observing the couple’s interaction and related challenges. Therapy creates new perspectives to enable the couple better understand the problems in their relationship and to improve them. Couples therapy can be attended alone or with your partner. A crisis in the relationship may sometimes result from a personal mental health issue, the treatment of which may also alleviate the problems in the relationship. Relationship crises can also cause mental health issues such as anxiety that can be treated at the same time.
In couples therapy, both individuals’ old disappointments in their previous and current relationships and the resulting thoughts and hopes they bring into the relationship are discussed. We all have a different history, and past events may weigh on the mind and cause unnecessary baggage in the relationship. The lack of healthy communication in a relationship is another common incitement for therapy. The couple cannot start a conversation at home without turning it into a fight, thus becoming unable to process their issues without external help.
Couples therapy aims to help a couple in crisis by creating a mutual understanding of the state of things and the causes behind the issues. True change calls for a motivated couple where both individuals are committed to working on the issues in the relationship.
