Therapy Services
Marriage & Family Therapy
Connection and Communication
In Marriage and Family Therapy, connection and communication are the foundation of a happy and healthy relationship.
As humans, it is our innate desire to connect and communicate with our loved ones. When these connections are weak or broken, it can lead to emotional distress and pain. Marriage and Family Therapists specialize in strengthening the bond between couples and families through effective communication and meaningful interactions, which can lead to a fulfilling and satisfying life. With the right guidance and support, couples and families can learn to navigate through the ups and downs of life and build lasting relationships based on trust, honesty, and mutual respect.
At the heart of it all, connection and communication are the keys to unlocking the true potential of any relationship.
Issues Treated By Marriage & Family Counseling
- Connection and communication
- Bonding
- Intimacy development
- Relational Trauma
- Infidelity
- Affair recovery
- Divorce Recovery
- Divorce Recovery
- Domestic Violence
- Pre-marital and Marital Issues
- Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
- Parenting
- Relationship Issues
- Spiritual Development/Formation
- Spirituality in Recovery
- Betrayal Trauma
- Stepfamily Development
- Stress
- TraumaProblematic sexual behavior/sex addiction/hypersexuality
- Sex Therapy
Therapy Services
About the Marriage & Family Therapy Process
Successful marriage and couples therapy can be difficult, yet rewarding. At Capstone we have therapists who work with marriage and relationship issues.
There is strong evidence to suggest couples who are able to build and sustain healthy relationships, must consistently maintain a 5 to 1 ratio of positive to negative interactions to keep the “good feelings” or what researchers call “positive sentiment” in a relationship. With this in mind, any negative things that take place in front of the therapist–like back and forth “he said she said” bashing during a session–can do harm to your relationship.
We have carefully tailored our approach in a way that gets you, the couple, working toward common goals instead of rehashing old problems. What we’ve observed by doing this is that couples start fighting “for their marriage” instead of, “for their point of view.”
The negotiation and compromise that goes into this process improves communication and conflict resolution skills and, in turn, will begin to heal your relationship. We focus on removing obstacles to intimate bonding and connection and helping couples grow the relationship.
The vision and goals that come out of this process will provide you with a set of relationship standards against which you can begin to measure how you are doing. As your new plan for working together begins to materialize your hope for a promising future begins to return, and your focus on all the problems that brought you to therapy begin to fade in importance. The point is, focusing on a new, common direction will help you get past old habits that are eroding your good feelings towards one another, and on a path toward healing and strengthening your relationship.
This is all to say that we can help you develop and implement a plan that will revitalize your marriage. This plan will be based on the research about what works in couples therapy.
