Get Your Relationship on Track – Counselors and Therapists in Cambridge

Did you wake up bleary eyed from another late night fight?
Do you dread hearing your spouse come home from work?
Do you spend meals eating in silence?
Does your life remind you of a bad reality show?

If you answered yes to any of these questions, perhaps you and your partner could benefit from couples counseling. Problems in a relationship can seem to pop up out of nowhere. With other couples, problems can actually define the essence of the relationship.

Oftentimes, small disagreements occur and couples can move past them quickly and easily. However, other times these same disagreements keep coming up, day after day, week after week, month after month. No matter how many times you discuss them with your spouse, you cannot come to a compromise. Couples counseling can help you and your partner work through this problem and come to a workable mediation for both members.

In some relationships, both people feel a consistent lack of respect and lack of joy. There is no element of fun and no spontaneity. You started out feeling light and happy with this person, and now you cannot remember why you even stay together. You have been with this person for so long, you cannot imagine your life any other way, even though are know there are many problems in your relationship. Couples Counseling with a skilled caring counselor or psychologist can help you find the happiness that you had on your first date.

Why Do Couples Go To Counseling?

There is no reason to feel shame in making the decision to pursue counseling as a couple. In fact, it can signal a level of respect for the relationship in choosing to spend time working on it together. A skilled counselor can recognize a true commitment to changing unhealthy behaviors and patterns of interaction.

Problems in a relationship can arise from many different causes. These may include:

• Financial problems
• Loss of job
• Selling a home
• Life transition such as retirement or unemployment
• Difficulty with children
• Serious medical problems
• Death of a loved one
• Emotional or psychological problems
• Addictions
• Infidelity
• Lack of trust
• Miscommunication

Help is available for whatever the cause of the problems in your relationship.

Perhaps one of the issues on the list immediately resonated with you. Or possibly you cannot identify one single problem, but you know your relationship needs help. You may be hesitant to address your concerns with your spouse or partner. In the safe environment of a counselor’s office, it can be easier to discuss your worries.

Feeling unhappy in a relationship can be very lonely and troubling. Going to sleep angry, or even alone in the bed, can be very painful and difficult. You may have to deal with a great deal of anger and resentment in your home, yet go to work every day and act as if everything is fine. This cycle can be exhausting and overwhelming, but it can change.

How Can We Change Our Relationship?

Couples counseling can help teach you and your partner new ways of interacting. Breaking unhealthy habits of behavior and communication can be very difficult, but possible. The first step in any change process is acknowledging the need for assistance. From that point, a counselor can help facilitate a new way of interacting and working together as a couple.

Some of these methods of change may include:

• Identifying problems
• Recognizing the most important problems for each partner
• Creating safe boundaries for discussion
• Teaching active listening
• Establishing honest and clear communication
• Creating trust
• Healing painful hurts from the past
• Establishing or fostering intimacy
• Dealing with addictions, medical problems, and psychological issues

This list may seem entirely overwhelming. Negative patterns of behavior are not easy to change, especially when trying to do so alone. You may desperately desire to change your unhealthy behaviors, or you are unsure whether your relationship can be saved. A Thriveworks counselor can help you and your partner identify what problems need addressed immediately, and can create a plan of action in creating the type of relationship you either used to have, or have always wanted.

Thriveworks Cambridge Couples Counselors, Psychologists Are Here To Help

Thriveworks Cambridge Counselors are prepared to take on the problems that you and your partner are experiencing, whether big or small. You do not have to walk through this alone. We have licensed experts in the field of Couples counseling that can help you and your partner identify the source of your problems. Our trained and licensed marriage counselors are experts in their field. Our counselors have been featured in many reputable news outlets and publications, such as The Cambridge Globe, Counseling Today, Psychiatric Times, The Journal of Mental Health Counseling, and many others.

We can help you create the relationship that you deserve. Whatever the source of the issues in your relationship, both partners deserve to have respect and happiness, whether together or apart. Discovering the best path for the future of your relationship would be our honor. We have the skills to help you develop new, healthy ways to deal with these problems.

Maybe it seems like a dream to be happy in your relationship. Maybe you remember a time when seeing your partner made you smile, instead of feel anxious. Maybe you have searched for help many times, or this is the first time you have really admitted to yourself that you need help. We are here for you, in whatever situation you find yourself.

We do not have a waitlist and we have appointments available immediately. Thriveworks Cambridge Couples Counselors can help you and your partner create the healthy, loving, and respectful relationship that you both desire.

Contact us to schedule your first session at 617-553-4653.

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