Marriage counseling can benefit couples in many ways. Couple’s therapy can be useful to couple’s wishing to improve their relationship. Beyond practicing psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy, I have considerable training and experience in marriage counseling. In the early 1980’s, I completed specialized training in marriage counseling and couple’s therapy. Since that time, I have devoted a significant part of my practice to working with couples. Providing marriage counseling in Washington DC, I have come to appreciate that good marriage counseling can transform a relationship.
My experience has been consistent with clinical research findings showing that marriage counseling helps even very distressed couples.
Marriage counseling benefits couples. It helps couple’s to:
- step into each others’ shoes and understand each others’ perspectives
- become emotionally closer
- develop a mutually agreed upon way to approach child (and, adolescent) rearing
- blend families
- deal with infidelity
- increase emotional intimacy
- difficulties with commitment
- improve sexual intimacy
- work on sexual difficulties
- deal with conflicts around money
- deal with conflicts around religious differences
- deepen their understanding of, and empathy for, each other
- strengthen their marriage or relationship
- assess whether their relationship concerns are optimally addressed in, individual therapy, marriage counseling, both or in some other way
- deal with strains associated with extended family members, such as in-laws
- address work-a-holism
- deal with traumatic losses
- co-parent during or following a divorce
- co-parent during a parent’s illness
- integrate a new step parent after the death of a parent (both while children are still at home and after they become adults)
- figure out how to help an adult child who is having difficulty launching into the world of school or work
deal with anger, rage and hurt
Individuals and/or couples who are uncertain as to whether their difficulties would respond best to individual or couple’s therapy are welcome to call me, at: 240.483.3530. To streamline things, leave your name and evening numbers.
