Couples Therapy

Pasadena, CA

Tired of Feeling Alone When You’re Together?

Feeling alone in a relationship can be really tough. Even though you’re with someone, you might feel like there's a big emotional gap between the two of you. Conversations may become short or feel boring, and your time together might start to feel like just a habit instead of something special. This loneliness can happen if your emotional needs aren't being met or when conflict gets left unresolved. It can also happen if you don't communicate well or when you face change. It often leaves you feeling empty and wanting more. To deal with this, perhaps its time to think about your feelings, have honest talks with your partner, and consider seeking help from a holistic couples therapist.

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Couples Therapy Can Help Your Relationship Thrive

Couples therapy is for helping partners in a relationship improve their connection and resolve conflicts. It provides a safe space to talk about problems, improve communication, and understand each other's perspectives. A trained holistic therapist can guide a couple through discussions and exercises to address issues such as trust, intimacy, and compatibility. The goal is to strengthen the relationship, promote mutual understanding, and develop healthier ways to interact and support each other. Couples therapy can be beneficial for partners at any stage of their relationship, whether they are dating, engaged, married, or considering separation.

Common Reasons Couples Seek Marriage Counseling

Difficulty resolving conflict
Feeling alone or misunderstood by one another
Walking on eggshells
Issues with parents/families
Rebuilding trust after betrayal
Concerns about sexual intimacy
Missing something that you “used to have together”
Addiction and/or sobriety
Life stage changes – getting married, having children, becoming empty nesters
Defensiveness
Fear about sharing feelings
Abandonment anxiety
Feeling like you’re losing yourself in the relationship
Having a sense of “stuckness”

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Our Couples Therapists Can Help

Couples therapists help by providing a neutral, supportive environment where partners can openly discuss their issues and concerns.

Impr oving Communication
Identifying Issues
Developing Solutions
Managing Conflict
Building Trust and Intimacy
Setting Goals
Offering Support
Providing Tools and Techniques

Through these methods, holistic couples therapists aim to strengthen the relationship and promote a deeper understanding and connection between partners.

Common Misconceptions About Couples Counseling

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“Marriage counseling will create more conflict in our relationship.”

Well, yes, it might at first. Talking about the issues that have been avoided can create tension and distress in the present moment. However, the goal of couples therapy is to ultimately resolve conflict. By working through conflict, connection can be restored.

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“Couples therapy will end of our relationship.”

According to the Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, couples counseling has a success rate of around 70%. Couples therapy does not have to be a last-ditch effort to save a failing relationship. In fact starting couples therapy before it is “needed” frequently leads to a healthy and happy relationship.

“Relationship counseling sounds draining and difficult.”

I’m sure you have successfully done hard things before. It may not be easy, but its rewarding. Movies and books have taught us to expect relationships to be easy. Factually, between any two human beings conflict will inevitably arise. Do you want to throw away your relationship just because talking about and resolving it feels really hard?

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The Rezak Therapy Approach to Couples Therapy

At Rezak Therapy, we blend three primary approaches to the needs of each individual relationship. These are Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy (EFT), Imago Relationship Therapy, and The Gottman Method. We incorporate these frameworks holistically, continually addressing the mind, body, and soul in the process.

In couples therapy, the relationship is the client, not the individuals within the relationship. This means that the focus and purpose is to support and improve the needs of the relationship as a unit. We may sometimes see each individual partner of a couple alone to gain further insights. When doing this the intent is to support the relationship.

We believe that individual therapy is frequently helpful to the couples therapy process. We frequently refer partners within a couple out to individual therapists to support the individual’s needs, as separate from the needs of the couple.