Couples therapy or Marriage counseling is a form of psychotherapy that aims to improve relationships through better listening, communication, and problem-solving skills. Depending on the needs and wishes of the couple, the therapy can take many different approaches, such as: education and specific skill building (communication and planning), better patterns of problem-solving and conflict resolution, and/or deeper emotional processing and healing of current or past events.
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Family Therapy uses a variety of evidenced-based treatment approaches to assist families in improving communication patterns and challenging relational dynamics within their family system. Everyone in a family is interrelated and impacted by one another’s actions and behaviors. The goal of family therapy is to assist each individual family member in staying true to their individual self while being supportive and empathetic to other family members emotions and experiences.
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