Couples therapy often allows partners to work through troubles and rebuild the relationship. Our therapists help you to recognize and explore the interpersonal patterns in your marriage. With this information, you can make decisions that can provide the necessary tools to save your marriage.
There comes a point in every relationship when things start to feel stagnant and problems arise. These issues can range from small arguments to more significant hardships such as infidelity, divorce, and death. Many couples feel lost, hopeless and unsure of how to fix the damage that has been done. However, couples therapy is an effective way to tackle relationship issues that have gone beyond communication. Couples therapy often allows partners to work through troubles and rebuild the relationship. We believe couples therapy can help save your marriage.
If couples therapy is effective, a couple, with a therapist, will come to understand how they consciously and unconsciously perceive life situations and understand the reason behind their automatic reactions. They can then consciously evaluate whether those unconscious viewpoints and automatic reactions are fair and acceptable to both individuals in the relationship. This creates a foundation where the couple can grow together and create a stronger and more fulfilling relationship.
Couples Therapy at Dynamic Psychiatry
In order for couples therapy to be effective, the therapist must be an unbiased third party. This allows the therapist to see past the emotions of a situation and facilitate constructive communication. Constructive communication and an understanding of each other’s perspectives (both conscious and unconscious), lays the groundwork of forgiveness, compromise and a happy relationship for anyone who is willing to “do the work”.
When a couple becomes aware of their unconscious and conscious perspectives, they:
Children benefit too. Children who grow up in an environment with parents who are able to see the full perspective and tolerate compromise, have better long term mental health, enjoy academic success, and generally realize fulfilling long-term relationships. While more difficult, effective couples therapy generally benefits multiple generations within a family tree.
It is also worth noting that divorce is relatively rare when a couple has two individuals who are willing to work and compromise. But when divorce is still a part of the couple’s reality, couples therapy can reduce the devastating effects of divorce for the divorcing individuals and the family. It also helps the divorced individuals to identify their own part that contributed to the divorce so that they can prevent this same issue from creating future relationship failures.
While a relationship may seem to be beyond repair, this is often not accurate. Those who engage in couples therapy as early as possible can identify and address the underlying issues. This vital intervention can equip a couple with the necessary skills to overcome their troubles and build a foundation that reignites the passion and emotional connection for a healthy relationship.
Seeking therapy can be intimidating, but it is a crucial step in becoming individuals capable of forming healthy and rewarding relationships. Remember, every relationship has its unique issues, and it requires discomfort, work and commitment to succeed.
In conclusion, effective couples therapy will be uncomfortable, and hard but can give you the ability to overcome relationship issues. This includes death, divorce, infidelity and many other problems. By allowing a neutral third party to guide them, a couple can gain an understanding of how their individual views and reactions are affecting the relationship. That knowledge empowers them to have greater mutual understanding, and a foundation to rebuild and strengthen their relationships.
Take the first step and schedule an appointment with a couples therapist today.
Important things to know
Will your insurance pay for Couples Therapy?
This depends on your insurance plan. Give us a call and we can help you figure out if your insurance covers couples therapy. We have often identified the necessary steps for most couples to be covered by their insurance, but even after doing everything the insurance company requested, some plans do not cover couples therapy and those couples must pay “out of pocket” for their sessions. Here is why…
Under the Affordable Care Act, the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act, and other federal laws, insurers must provide equitable coverage for mental health conditions. This means they must treat mental health conditions like physical health conditions, must not exclude them from coverage, and must not charge higher co-pays for these conditions.
Insurance equity laws don’t usually apply to couples therapy because the current laws incorrectly say couples therapy isn’t a physical health issue like an individual’s depression, anxiety, addiction or PTSD. Thus, most insurance plans don’t pay for couples therapy because they are not required to do so. Even when some have it as a listed benefit, it is our experience that insurance companies sometimes deny the claims by using various reasons or will pay less than a practice’s “break even” rate.
Thus, it is something to consider. Call us and we can help explore your options.
We have multiple providers who offer couples therapy. Each therapist has a limited number of couples therapy slots available. You can get connected by calling the front desk who will identify which providers have availability.
Many people recognize that Dr Watson is a nationally acclaimed psychiatrist and psychotherapy provider and we get many calls requesting his direct services. Please be aware that it becoming very rare for Dr Watson to accept couples for therapy because his time is generally spent training therapists in our practice and around the nation. However, we have various couples therapists who receive direct training and supervision from Dr Watson and they have many more slots available. Therefore, you have the option of seeking care by a therapist who is receiving ongoing training and supervision by Dr Watson.
Do you recommend Couples Therapy before marriage?
Yes. Couples counseling is often most beneficial even before the marriage happens. This is the time for the individuals to learn the details of how a successful couple interact with each other. By getting couples therapy before marriage, the individuals learn how to identify and resolve small disagreements before they have a chance to form into marital fractures.
We are here to answer all your questions. Call us and we will direct you to our convenient new patient portal where you can choose the right provider based on your needs and insurance and set up your own appointment.
