Psychotherapy Service
Couples Therapy
Couples therapy is a type of psychotherapy that helps couples improve their relationships. Benefits include improved communication and conflict resolution skills, increased intimacy and connection, reduced stress and anxiety, and a stronger, more resilient relationship.
How couples therapy works
Couples therapy can be a valuable resource for any couple. It’s a sign of strength and commitment to your relationship, whether you’re experiencing challenges or seeking to improve your relationship long-term.
You may consider couples therapy if you’re experiencing:
- Communication challenges: Learn new ways to express needs, listen with empathy, and resolve conflicts respectfully.
- Intimacy and trust: Rebuild emotional and physical closeness, work through betrayal, and rediscover connection.
- Life transitions and stress: Navigate major changes—from parenting to loss—while maintaining a sense of teamwork.
- Relationship growth: Strengthen your bond, deepen emotional understanding, and develop lasting relationship skills.
Pursuing couples therapy can help couples identify and address underlying issues that are causing problems and can also help them develop new skills and strategies for communicating, resolving conflict, and building a stronger relationship.
Rosecrance offers a safe and confidential space where you and your partner can work together with a trained therapist to address issues and build a healthier, happier relationship.
Benefits of couples therapy
One of the main benefits of couples therapy is the help—having a therapist and the larger Rosecrance team to help you navigate the challenges you’re experiencing.
Shame and stigma can still hold people back from asking for help. “Why can’t we do this ourselves?” or “We should be able to figure this out or fix this ourselves” are common things we hear. Relationships struggles are common and like any other life event or challenge, professional help and treatment may be needed and can help.
Couples might also be used to fighting and struggling with communication, so couples therapy is a refreshing break from that normal. Therapists will listen and identify conflicts without judgment—not pointing fingers, finding faults, or blaming each other.
Common challenges we address in couples therapy
Couples therapy aims to improve communication, which in turn can improve intimacy and overall relationship health.
People who reach out for couples therapy often report that they’re constantly fighting or arguing too much, that they’ve stopped talking, or that they’ve reached a breaking point. Rosecrance provides a safe place with patience and empathy where all points of view are heard and recognized.
Building trust and working on conflict resolution management leads to more productive communication. Improving trust can provide longer-term comfort in the day-to-day time and future time you spend with your partner.
Common challenges we address in couples therapy:
- Fighting and arguments
- Infidelity or emotional cheating
- Trust breakdown
- Lack of intimacy
Couples therapy does not take sides; it’s about helping two people learn how to get along better with each other. If you and your partner are willing to attend couples therapy sessions, we are confident that we can help you find solutions that work for your relationship.
Goals of couples therapy
- Conflict resolution: “We fight too much.” We hear that a lot in couples therapy, and we want to think bigger than that. Our therapists will make sure each person is heard and work together on compromise and solutions.
- Improved intimacy: Intimacy doesn’t just mean sex or sexuality. Sex is a part of intimacy, but improving intimacy means really looking at whether you are truly part of each other’s lives. Do you feel close? How can you be more connected in your everyday life?
- Building trust: Couples therapy is not dragging your partner into therapy to fix them. One of the biggest ways that couples therapy differs from individual therapy is that the relationship is the patient. Couples therapy rebuilds trust through balance, a team effort where you will learn a lot about yourself and your partner as you work to resolve conflicts.
Frequently asked questions (FAQs)
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Rosecrance Therapies does offer in-person and virtual sessions for couples therapy. Examples of when virtual couples therapy has been beneficial is when one partner is traveling or if individuals aren’t living in the same place together.
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Couples therapy sessions last about 45 minutes. The initial session is usually a little longer (about 60 minutes) to leave enough time for introductions and discussing goals. The timeline for couples therapy will be individualized to you and your partner’s needs. That schedule is also dependent on your availability—how often you can and want to meet, for example. A good estimate is four to five months because that allows us time to get to know you and to understand the dynamics of your relationship and the challenges you’re experiencing.
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It is common for us to see different motivation levels in the people seeking couples therapy. Our first few couples therapy sessions will include discussing goals and reinforcing that each person will be heard and recognized. We find that motivation improves when people realize they will be given the space to talk and be heard. Rosecrance’s mission is to provide help, hope, and recovery. Help and hope are central to recovering relationships.
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With your current insurance information and location, we can better match you to programs and services that best fit your specific situation.