What Is Couples Therapy?
Common Couples Therapy Exercises
While the format and exercises experienced in couples counseling may vary by therapist, there are a few commonly employed couples therapy exercises assigned to promote honest conversation, deep empathy and positive intentions and actions between couples. These tend to be a range of exercises, including trust falls (remember those from summer camp?), honesty hours, intimacy activities (think: 10 minutes of direct eye contact or hand holding) and utilizing new rhetorical techniques in everyday con
You'll Receive a Task for the Next Session
Each Couple will receive homework
How to Get Couples Therapy at Your Fingertips
While in-person couples counseling sessions with a psychiatrist or therapist are most common, if you're uncomfortable about professional therapy, unable to afford it or simply a tech-savvy couple looking for something a bit more convenient (while just as impactful) there's also Tele-Health
Is Couples Therapy Covered by Insurance?
Simply Ask your therapist which insurance they accept.
What to Expect From a Couples Therapy Session
The initial couples therapy sessions you'll experience will likely be dedicated to getting to know you two and your relationship—everything from your individual backgrounds to the story of how you met—so it will seem like more of an interview format. However, as your couples counseling progresses, a typical session can tend to feel more conversational. According to Morgan and McGrath , it's important to keep an open mind, be respectful and—especially if you're a couple that tends to be highly e
You'll Start With the Basics.
You'll Review Last Week's Tasks
For many people, both married and unmarried, the idea of attending couples therapy or marriage counseling can seem daunting or unnecessary, especially if they're in a healthy relationship. But according to board-certified Licensed Mental Health Counselor and relationship experts Naomi Morgan, LMHC,LPC and Radford “Raffy“ McGraff, LMHC, couples counseling isn't just about healing wounds—it's also about nurturing your functioning relationship as it grows in order to prevent miscommunication.
You'll Discuss Open-Ended Questions
Think of marriage counseling like going to the dentist. You brush your teeth every day at home, then visit a dentist for routine checkups a couple times a year to preventing larger issues, like a cavity. Of course, if anything bad does happen, the dentist will be there to help fix it; but if you know how to take care of your teeth, and regularly attend normal checkups, you're less likely to experience those emergencies. Couples therapy is meant to work in much the same way.
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