Yes. Recurring conflict often points to an underlying need that hasn’t been fully addressed. Your clinician will work with you both to identify those patterns, develop communication objectives, and build the skills needed to move forward together.
Married Couples
Therapy for Married Couples
Counseling to Build a Stronger Marriage
All relationships take work, especially marriages. The therapists at Counseling Works know that, as the years go by, married couples need to reinvest their time, energy, and effort into their relationship. It’s possible a couple’s marriage needs to be fine-tuned as it has been rocked by infidelity or is on the brink of a separation or divorce. We are here to revitalize your marriage or help you repair partnerships that have been damaged.
Why Should My Spouse & I Consider Marriage Counseling?
In every marriage, there are good and bad times. The attachment we foster by responding to our partners’ needs during the most mundane times will make the good days better and the bad ones a little easier to manage. It’s all about understanding how you and your partner ask each other for connection. Every day, you ask for attention, affirmation, comfort, and love from your partner, and they ask for these things in return. In healthy marriages, the spouses recognize and respond appropriately when their partners ask them to meet their emotional and physical needs, but failure to do this, even unintended failure, can lead to a weakened or struggling partnership. Marriage counseling can help you learn to recognize how your partner asks to have their needs met and respond appropriately.
At Counseling Works, we have experience partnering with couples in marriages at every stage, and we can help you create a lasting partnership, communicate better, achieve relationship goals, and grow closer together. Therapy for married couples can help you establish a healthy partnership in the early part of your marriage, maintain a positive and thriving relationship, heal from marriage injury, or work through tough times together.
How Does Marriage Counseling Help?
Regardless of whether you want to strengthen your relationship, resolve specific issues, build or repair trust, improve communication skills, or prevent a divorce, the therapists at Counseling works are committed to helping you improve your marriage. Your Counseling Works Therapist will assist you with:
- Build communication skills
- Develop empathy and emotional intelligence
- Learn problem-solving skillsÂ
- Improve intimacy and strengthen bondsÂ
- Limit thought patterns that result in poor or ineffective communicationÂ
- Address and mitigate power struggles
- Build and repair trust
- Revisit commitment as a part of a relationship
- Discuss separation and divorce
- Identifying and healing old wounds
- Challenging your fears and breaking free from painful patterns
- Helping you develop and invent the new you
- Reigniting your passion for life
- Working through your relationship patterns and creating more understanding of your needs as individuals and as a couple
FAQs About Couples Therapy in Illinois
What if my spouse is willing to come but isn't fully on board?
That’s very common, and therapy can still be highly effective. Our clinicians are skilled at creating a safe, balanced space where both partners feel heard. They also sometimes utilize a technique called discernment counseling to help couples determine if marital counseling will help them with their goals. Many clients who come in hesitant find their comfort level increases significantly after the first session.
Do we need individual therapy in addition to couples therapy?
It depends on your unique situation. In some cases, individual sessions alongside couples work can accelerate progress, especially when personal patterns are affecting the relationship. Your clinician will help you determine the best approach for your goals.
What approaches do your couples therapists use?
Our clinicians are trained in evidence-based modalities including the Gottman Method and Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT). Your therapist will tailor their approach based on your specific concerns and what will best help you reach your treatment goals.
My partner says they're done. Is it still worth coming in?
We encourage you to reach out. Often couples therapy is beneficial for partners who have decided to end a relationship to help navigate next steps such as co-parenting and family relationships. Our clinicians provide a safe, supportive space to explore where you are as a couple, whether the goal is to rebuild the relationship or to navigate this season with clarity, compassion, and support.
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