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At LifeStance, we offer both in-person and online couples therapy services.
We connect you with Licensed Clinicians who match your needs and goals.
Your Clinician performs a thorough evaluation and develops a personalized treatment plan.
Your Clinician maintains proper level of care through therapy sessions, medication management, and self-care practices as needed, while staying connected with your support system.
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What is Couples Therapy?
Couples therapy, sometimes referred to as marriage therapy or couples counseling, is counseling focused on addressing challenges in a relationship. The goal of this type of therapy is to help couples of all types recognize and resolve conflicts and improve their relationships.
Through couples therapy, you and your partner can learn to better understand each other, improve communication, and make more thoughtful choices and decisions about rebuilding and strengthening your relationship.
How Can Couples Therapy Help?
Couples therapy can help people in all types of intimate relationships — regardless of sexual orientation or marital status. Some couples seek therapy to strengthen their partnership and gain a better understanding of each other. In other cases, couples seek therapy to improve a troubled relationship. You can use couples counseling to help address many specific issues, including:
- Communication problems
- Sexual difficulties
- Conflicts about child rearing or blended families
- Substance abuse
- Anger
- Infidelity
In-Person and Online Couples Therapy
LifeStance offers flexible and convenient access to a full array of mental health services and makes it possible for couples with busy schedules to easily access both in-person and online therapy.
The benefits of couples therapy are making more and more couples consider it as a part of their relationship maintenance. Those benefits include
- Repairing emotional connections
- Managing conflict
- Communication
- Rebuilding trust
- Appreciation
What Can We Expect in Couples Therapy?
To get the most out of couples therapy, you and your partner should discuss shared goals. Talk about what you are struggling with, whether you want the same things in life, what you want out of the sessions, etc. Be ready to accept the challenges, and be committed to the effort.
In your first session, you and your partner will meet the therapist together. After that initial session together, you may have some individual sessions, and for the rest of your sessions, you and your partner will be working together on your relationship issues.
How Do We Prepare for Couples Therapy?
Go in with an open mind.
You probably have a mental picture of how you think the therapy should go, but be open to it happening differently than you first pictured. Keep in mind that it will take time for the therapist to get to know you and your partner and to understand your patterns of behavior.
Accept that it is about change.
Remember that it is not just about changing your partner’s behavior but changing your own as well. It takes two people to make a relationship, and it takes two people to change a relationship. This can be a hard concept to accept.
Make the commitment.
Be patient and commit to the process. You will need a few months of attending therapy regularly to begin to judge the progress you’re making. Your other commitment is to follow through by taking what is said and learned in your sessions and applying what you have learned to your relationship.
Online Appointment Options for Couples Therapy
There are sometimes obstacles to finding and using onsite mental health services, including transportation, mobility, and local availability of providers who specialize in couples therapy. We offer online appointments because we believe that everyone who needs mental health services should be able to get them.
For an online appointment, you will need to have access to a private place and a computer/tablet/smartphone with a camera and a high-speed internet connection. LifeStance will provide you with access to the necessary videoconferencing software free of charge and will send you directions on how to log in after you set up and confirm your appointment.
Couples Therapy FAQs
Online appointments have some benefits for couples therapy. Online service is convenient, removes the need to commute to a therapist’s office, and makes it easier for a busy couple to fit sessions into their schedules. It can also make people feel more comfortable and more likely to open up, since they are in a familiar setting that feels safe.
When a person only attends individual therapy for a relationship issue, research indicates that they are more likely to divorce or leave their partner than they would be if they had attended couples therapy. If you want to consider working on the relationship, we encourage you to choose couples therapy to try and work through and resolve the issues affecting the relationship together.
Couples therapy sessions are facilitated by a trained, licensed clinician, such as a licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT), licensed professional counselor (LPC), or licensed clinical social worker (LCSW). They may call themselves marriage counselors, marriage therapists, or simply therapists. LifeStance employs many highly trained clinicians that offer couples therapy.
