Couples Therapy | Together Couples Counseling

When couples struggle with communication issues, one of the main reasons is that they use complaints to address upsets or problems that arise.

Most of us have a habit of looking at the world through a black-and-white, this or that, either or lens at times.

“Why don’t we have sex anymore? We used to be all over each other”, John said in his first couples therapy session with his wife, Anna.

“I keep telling my husband we need to go to couples counseling but he refuses, what can I do?”

“I bring up what’s bothering me and he just shuts down. All I get is silence. He won’t talk to me”.

I attended a wedding the other weekend and weddings always have me contemplate the work that I do.

Lisa harbored deep resentment at her husband of 15 years, Scott (not their real names).

“Every time I bring up something that bothers me, he gets defensive.”