Couples Therapy
Co-parenting can create conflicts.
Those conflicts can cause increased confrontation and confusion.
You and your spouse have different styles, values, and attitudes about co-parenting your child. You are highly concerned about safety, and your spouse supports letting your child explore the environment, which you see as a learning experience.
The disagreement over co-parenting has become a source of constant conflict. It feels like a small matter, but this triggers daily conflicts. You want to avoid confrontation and seek harmony, but your spouse brings data and AI statistics to argue her point.
At this point, you’ve realized that anger doesn’t work, and sometimes being reasonable doesn’t either. Still, you know that positive communication is needed and necessary for the two of you to be on the same page regarding your child.
Therapy can bring a sigh of relief.
Therapy has helped couples realize that they both want the best for their child, and learning to compromise and collaborate in co-parenting has improved communication.
Instead of coming from the head and arguing with each other, they have learned through therapy that communicating from the heart with their spouse is most productive. I have witnessed couples absorb and apply the communication skills training provided during our sessions, thereby increasing their empathy and understanding.
The patterns of behavior learned in therapy have enhanced harmony. Clients learn how to use both the I Feel Statement and Active/Reflective listening to recreate that connection to their heart, resulting in greater respect, consideration, cooperation, and compassion with their spouse.
Through couples therapy, they have replaced competition and being right with listening to each other’s points of view and acknowledging that they need to work together through co-parenting their child and being a resource for each other.
What approaches do I use?
Communication Skills Training is essential because it helps couples learn to express their feelings and better understand each other’s perspectives.
We also practice Role Playing, establishing a Heart-to-Heart Connection, and Challenging Negative Self-Talk.
They learn the 5 Love Languages and practice exercises designed to build a Healthy Relationship.
Ultimately, the goal is to increase the couple’s overall Emotional Well-being as they strive to do what’s best for their child.
There is light at the end of the tunnel.
Co-parenting is challenging, but through couples therapy, you can learn ways to minimize conflict and work together for the sake of your child – not to mention building a more cooperative relationship between the two of you.
You will be surprised how close you become as you practice the skills that we will focus on throughout the therapy session.
Your child and relationship will benefit from couples therapy.
If you are ready to start, please get in touch with me today to learn more about my approach to couples therapy.