Helping couples build communication, support, and closeness
Curiosity and connection are keys to a healthy partnership.
At FamilyFirst, our clinicians recognize there are many factors that can make it difficult to feel close to, and connected with, your partner. There are personal and professional pressures and dynamics to navigate each day, while still facing the always present demands of being responsible to yourself and another person. Couples therapy can help you structure and enhance your relationship in a way that allows for positive connection even in the face of challenge.
Couples often seek therapy to learn how to cope together with change. For instance, you may be learning how to be present with one another as a couple for the first time, you may be trying to re-learn how to make a relationship work after having children, you may need assistance in co-parenting your children at different ages/stages, or you may find yourselves as empty nesters. The clinicians at FamilyFirst are trained to recognize and help you shift patterns and habits that may arise unintentionally in order to strengthen your partnership over time.
Using Gottman principles and other evidence-based approaches, our couples therapists provide a space to help you more easily carry, cope with, and communicate about stressors that may be straining your relationship. We focus on the process, not the content, never telling you one partner is right and the other wrong. We focus on fostering relationship dynamics that can hold any problems that may come your way rather than only fixing the immediate problem(s).
Our clinicians can help couples with a wide range of relationship concerns, including:
- Communication
- Conflict
- Infidelity
- New diagnoses in the family
- Adjustment to family changes (e.g., birth(s), children aging, death(s), job loss, etc.)
- Fertility
- Postpartum