Couples Therapy
Are You Feeling Distant Or Disconnected From Your Partner?
Do you find that you regularly engage in conflict or struggle to meaningfully connect with your spouse or significant other? Have you noticed any of the following negative patterns within your relationship:
Constant conflict?
Poor communication?
Intimacy issues?
Perhaps you’re experiencing endless fighting that never gets resolved in a healthy way, or perhaps there’s a shortage of connection and intimacy within your relationship. Or maybe you’re living parallel lives devoid of affection, connection, or intimacy.
Couples Can Get Stuck In Negative, Unhealthy Cycles Over Time
You may endure feelings of anxiousness, depression, unhappiness, and/or loneliness that can be hard to shake. It may feel at times like you are stuck in a cycle that neither of you can fix. Various forms of escapism or addiction may offer you a way to further detach from each other. One or both of you may be contemplating breaking up, separation, or divorce.
Luckily, relationships usually respond well to therapy, especially when both partners are involved and invested in the process. A skilled counselor can help facilitate communication and understanding so you can get back on the same page, and couples therapy with Alpine Family Counseling can help you bring your relationship back from surviving to thriving.
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All Couples Experience Ups And Downs In Their Relationship
Even happy relationships encounter difficulties along the way. It’s arguably less about whether couples experience tough times and more about how they collectively react whenever problems arise. Navigating challenges together with love and care can make you stronger as a couple.
Therapy actually has a proven track record when it comes to couples as well. In fact, one survey found that “among respondents who are in couples therapy, 99 percent say it has had a positive impact on their relationship, and three out of four (76 percent) say it has a high or very high impact” (1). And yet, so many couples never seek any form of therapy for their issues.
Communication Issues Are Often At The Heart Of Relationship Issues
Again and again, we see a lack of connection in relationships that traces directly back to a lack of communication—or at least healthy, productive, effective communication. Communication can help open up connection, empathy, and a better understanding of each other’s needs.
Because communication issues are so often at the root of the problems that couples face, an increase in communication skills alone can help repair the relationship. Counseling can help you build these communication skills so you can renew your bond and restore your relationship.
(1) https://www.verywellmind.com/relationships-survey-7104667
Couples Therapy Can Help You Reconnect And Start Anew
When you’re stuck in a cycle of negative or unhealthy patterns with your partner, it can be difficult to envision any other dynamic with them. Unfortunately, many give up on meaningful relationships that could otherwise be repaired and restored.
But couples or marriage therapy can help you better understand each other and your needs so you can rebuild trust, connection, and intimacy. Counseling can help you understand how your childhood experiences and adult relationship history have contributed to your current dynamic while enabling you to cultivate new ways of communicating as a couple.
A Flexible, Open-Ended Approach To Couples Therapy
Depending on your situation and needs, we will incorporate various modalities in your couples counseling sessions, including:
Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy (EFT) – An attachment-driven form of psychotherapy, EFT can help couples change rigid relationship dynamics while building greater mental and emotional connection.
Gottman Method Couples Therapy – An evidence-based approach, the Gottman Method focuses on improving communication skills between couples as a way to move past conflict and develop connection and intimacy.
Attachment-Focused Therapy (AT) – Related to EFT, Attachment-Focused Therapy can help couples better understand their attachment styles, with the goal of moving from various types of insecure attachment to secure attachment.
The Gottman Method can help open up the communication dynamics in your relationship and create positive interactions that will bring you closer together as a couple. And through the lens of EFT and Attachment Theory, we can identify your respective attachment styles to explore and better understand what’s occurring within your relationship dynamic and why.
Above all, we want you to know that a happier, more connected, more joyful relationship is possible, and we can help you get there together. It does take mindfulness and effort—and of course, we will be with you every step of the way—but if each of you is willing to reflect and enact positive changes, a more fulfilling relationship is waiting for both of you.
You May Still Have Some Questions About Couples Counseling…
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I’m worried that it will take a long time for couples therapy to make a difference.
The therapeutic process does take time, but if you are willing to change, you will see change happen faster than you might think. Our primary short-term goal is to address and relieve your immediate symptoms while giving you the tools to live a healthier and more fulfilling life.
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I’m skeptical about the potential effectiveness of couples therapy—particularly online therapy.
We’ve seen the effectiveness of therapy firsthand—in both our clients and in ourselves. We know how to help you have a healthier relationship with your partner because we’ve spent a lot of personal time figuring it out ourselves and a lot of professional time learning how to help others in the same way.
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I’ve had a bad experience with therapy in the past and I’m afraid of being judged, misunderstood, or sides being taken.
We care for our clients like we would want our family or ourselves cared for. We want couples to feel seen, heard, and understood, not judged. And we definitely don’t take sides except in our advocacy for the relationship as a whole. Our goal is to help individuals connect and better understand each other’s experiences in a more curious, gentle, and compassionate way.
You Can Build A Better, Healthier Relationship Together
If feel disconnected from your partner and you want to bridge the gap, couples therapy with Alpine Family Counseling can help you reconnect and build a better relationship together.
Please call 719-413-6879 or visit our contact page to get started.
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Colorado Springs, CO
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7680 Goddard St Suite 120
Colorado Springs, CO 80920
719-413-6879