What is Couple therapy?
Couple therapy is often called marital therapy or couple counselling. It focuses on improving and developing healthy communication patterns in between the partners and helps to resolve various interpersonal conflicts.
Couple therapy is offered to support people in relationships who may be considering separation or seeking improved intimacy and understanding.
IASH Jaipur provides marriage therapy in Jaipur. In therapy, a therapist helps the couple to improve the quality of communication in an authentic way and also help connect, hear, and understand each other much better which in turn leads to building a healthy and loving relationship once again.
The duration of marriage counselling in Jaipur depends on the severity of problems in between the couples, goals the couples want to achieve and various other social, physical, emotional factors.As per experience in IASH Jaipur,, For most couples improvements are noticeable after 3-5 sessions.
Couple Therapy Session
The purpose of couple therapy is to build support and improve relationship functioning among two individuals.
There are various types of couple therapy and the type which will apply to one couple will depend on what are the underlying problems between the couple and how severe is the marital/partnership discord. In general three types are most commonly used:
1. Behavioural Marital/Couple Therapy(BCT) in Jaipur
In IASH Jaipur, This therapy focuses on behaviour analysis of both the individuals for better understanding in a relationship which manages through various learning processes. It also helps in managing the individuals or one of the partners seeking help for alcoholism or drug abuse.
2. Integrative Behavioural Couple Therapy in Jaipur
This therapy involves two major phases, an evaluation/feedback phase and an active treatment phase and it lasts between 6 to 12 months. IASH Jaipur provides best relationship counsellor for this therapy
3. Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT) in Jaipur
It is a unique empirically-based approach, based on methods designed to help both the partners to accept, express, regulate, make sense of and transform emotion. Learning about emotions is not enough instead to experience those emotions as they arise in the safety of the therapy session.
Who needs couple therapy?
Couples seek therapy for various reasons, from communication problems and power struggles, to infidelity and sexual dissatisfaction.Here are some common reasons that indicate that a couple could potentially benefit from seeing a trained therapist or seek professional counseling for couples in Jaipur help.
- Lack of authentic communication in between the two.
- Even small arguments are conflict-oriented.
- Lack of mutual trust.
- Dysfunctional patterns to handle conflict (Verbal or Physical Abuse)
- Emotional and physical intimacy is deeply diminished.
Goals of couple therapy
- Helps partners negotiate behaviour change.
- Changes the views of the relationship.
- Modifies dysfunctional (excessive alcohol or drug abuse, verbal or physical abuse) behaviour.
- Teach and improves more effective communication skills such as ;
- Active listening
- How to Argue
- Teach horsemen technique (defensiveness,criticism,contempt,stonewalling) by trained professional to avoid destructive fighting.
- Promotes physical and mental strength.
Amazing Tips by Marriage counsellor of IASH, Jaipur to maintain and build a great and healthy relationship are:
- On the basis of Marriage therapies at IASH Jaipur, To engage in a healthy relationship couples can perform various activities together which enhances their intimacy. These activities can be icebreakers or game of thrones, in which you can ask various questions like tell me something weird about you, what is your favourite ice cream flavour, etc. Ask questions to your partner and answer your partner’s questions honestly ranging from serious note to funny one (first crush or favourite childhood movie). Use this exercise when you want to feel the need to get a little more connected to your partner and learn something interesting about your partner.
- Share romantic songs with your partner which you like the most along with an explanation of how this particular song relates to you. This creates deep insight about your partner and your relationship.
- Start reading your partner favourite books which helps you to discover more about your partner and his wishes, needs, desires and definitely a way to understand their mind.
- Another important exercise couples can do before bedtime is to show physical affection by simple cuddling is a much better way to end your day with your partner. It helps to improve each other’s mood, deepen a couple’s connection and enhance intimacy with your partner.
There are many more exciting ways to rekindle the affection with your loved one ranging from simple conversation starters to complicated relationship therapies.
We at Institute of Andrology And Sexual Health Jaipur are committed to solving your relationship problems and giving you both a fresh start to a more healthy and loving relationship by couples counselling.
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