Couples Therapy

Do You Feel Disconnected From Your Partner? Learn healthy ways to express your feelings, communicate more effectively and reconnect with your partner.

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Couples Therapy
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Do You Feel Disconnected From Your Partner?

Do you feel unappreciated in your relationship?
Have day-to-day routines replaced spontaneity and romance?
Do you wonder if your partner still loves and understands you?
Have you and your partner been bickering, fighting, or ignoring each other?
Do you wish you could feel close and connected to your partner again?
Is your sex-life unfulfilling or nonexistent?
Are you getting married and would like a blueprint of your relationship styles to prepare for marriage?

Take Back Control of Your Life With
Couples Therapy Services

Give us a call at 832-559-2622 to find out more about Couples Therapy in Houston. Or click "Get Started Now" to schedule an appointment online with our Couples Therapy Services counselors today. We have therapists near the Montrose, Heights & Sugar Land neighborhoods and offer online therapy in multiple states.

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Couples Therapy Can Help You Restore Intimacy & Connection

Whether you have been with your partner for months, years, or decades, you may feel as though you are drifting apart. Maybe you used to talk about everything, but now you only seem to discuss the dishes. You might feel as though you take on the majority of household responsibilities. All while your partner takes your efforts for granted. Maybe little things frequently build up into big arguments, and you feel as though you are never really heard. You might feel lonely, even when you are in the same room as your partner.

Talking to your partner might be about to-do’s vs. connection. Your partner’s body language may also be communicating disinterest. Perhaps your partner seems to pay more attention to his or her TV, phone, or computer than to you. You may wonder why you bother going home after work. Maybe your partner has violated your trust, and you aren’t sure how to feel safe and secure in your relationship again. You might just want to feel appreciated and special again.

Many Relationships Change Over Time

Strengthening Your Bond Through Couples Therapy

Bonding with others is incredibly important to human begins. A romantic relationship is often the deepest bond or connection we have. When we have built a connection with another person and something disrupts that connection, we can feel angry, scared, or unsafe. Sometimes, you might find yourself reacting to those emotions by shutting down or snapping at your partner. It’s not uncommon for couples to get stuck in a pattern of bickering and negativity.

Improve Communication with Your Partner

It’s also very common to experience tension in a relationship after the “honeymoon phase” has ended. You and your partner might neglect to take the time to show love and appreciation to one another in the same ways or frequency you did when you first fell in love. As time passes, many people grow, change, and develop new values or new desires. Significant life changes and stressors, such as the birth of a child, pregnancy loss, infertility, a move, or financial worries, can also weigh on a relationship. Everyone wants to feel loved and valued, but not all of us are skilled at communicating our needs. Many people lack positive couples communication role models. Others simply struggle to identify and articulate their emotions. But, with help, you can learn healthy ways to express your feelings, improve communication, communicate more effectively, and reconnect with your partner. Good communicators feel more connected.

Restore Intimacy with Sex Therapy

Sex therapy is a specialized form of counseling that focuses on enhancing sexual health and well-being. It is designed to help individuals and couples overcome sexual concerns, improve communication, and foster greater intimacy. You can expect a safe and non-judgmental space to explore your sexual history, desires, and challenges. Through open dialogue and tailored exercises, you will gain valuable insights, develop effective coping strategies, and ultimately achieve a more fulfilling sex life.

During sex therapy, you’ll work closely with a trained therapist in a safe and confidential environment to explore your sexual history, beliefs, and concerns. Your therapist will provide education, communication techniques, and practical exercises to help you overcome challenges and improve your sexual satisfaction. The goal of sex therapy is to empower you to have a fulfilling and enjoyable sex life, whether you’re single, in a relationship, or exploring new connections.

With Couples Therapy, You Can Rebuild Your Relationship’s Foundation

At Eddins Counseling Group, our couples therapists are specially trained in couples therapy. We can help you clear away the anxiety, fear, anger, and sadness that may be blocking your way to healthy expressions of deeply held emotions. If you are clouded by negativity, you might feel hopeless and disconnected. But, you can learn to express your needs and truly know your partner again while improving your mental health. Our couples therapists are non-judgmental, compassionate, and understand how the brain responds to social and relationship cues. If you feel as though you and your partner have been having the same old argument over and over, your therapist can help you develop tools to recognize and break out of that pattern. We want to help both you and your partner improve communication and hear each other’s point of view without fear of blame.

Your couples therapist can help you learn the language of open and honest communication, which is free of criticisms, defensiveness, or personal attacks. In couples therapy sessions, you and your partner can learn to clarify your needs, communicate them, and listen to one another. Your therapist will help you both implement healthy habits to meet your needs, as well as your partners. For example, you might ask for a “Thank you” to show appreciation. Your partner may need a daily kiss to show love.

Your therapist will also assess how each of you handles conflict and identify strategies to reach effective resolution. Every couple and person is unique, so your couples therapist will help you identify the specific places that feel unfilled in your relationship, whether it be in physical intimacy, emotional intimacy or communication styles for example. In sessions, your therapist can help you remember what first drew you to your partner and made you fall in love. With communication training and practice, you can develop a deeper and more fulfilling relationship.

Couples Counseling Intensive/Marathon Sessions

A typical 45-minute session every week may not provide the necessary time to work through all your concerns especially after infidelity or when one partner is deciding whether to leave the relationship. In these cases, you might consider doing a couples counseling intensive, which is an extended session lasting 2 hours or even longer. These extended sessions allow you and your partner enough time to get to the root of the issue and begin the process of repairing your relationship.

Your Relationship Explored in Depth

In intensive/marathon couples therapy we explore in depth about the struggles and challenges in your relationship that could generally take weeks, or months in the traditional style of couples therapy in one extended session, or weekend. You will have more time to process past injuries that have never been healed and better understand how these injuries impact the relationship. You will learn and practice new communication and conflict management skills to help have more productive dialogues. Additionally, you will begin to build trust and intimacy, and reconnect with your partner. Weekend and Marathon therapy intensives are customized to each couple by a couples therapist to collaboratively identify a plan that will be most beneficial. A couples counseling intensive is hard work but it can save a relationship. *These sessions are booked on a case by case basis. Please call 832-559-2622 for more information.*

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Couples Therapy Services FAQ's

What if my partner doesn’t want to come to couples therapy?

Even if your partner is resistant to the idea of couples therapy, you are still welcome to come and work through your relationship issues.

You can learn communication strategies that can help you communicate more effectively with your partner.

You may also learn how to get your needs met in the relationship while increasing the connection between you both.

You can’t force your partner to change or to join you in sessions, but you can bring positive lessons back to your relationship.

I’m afraid I won’t be understood or listened to because my partner is the talker.

Many people worry that they lack the ability to articulate their needs.

Sometimes, it might feel like your partner is good at verbalizing, so he or she will dominate any conversation about the relationship.

We value both partners. We can help you learn how to express yourself and feel understood.

In sessions, your therapist can help to balance the conversation so that the needs of both partners are heard and explored.

I don’t want to be villianized, blamed, or attacked.

It’s common to worry that your therapist and your partner will gang up on you if you speak honestly about your feelings. However, our couples therapist will not take sides.

We want to hear both partners’ fears, hurts, and hopes. You and your partner are both human, with flaws and strengths.

In a relationship, assigning blame can perpetuate negativity and disconnection.

Your couples counselor understands that no one is right and no one is wrong.

Can my relationship be saved after an affair?

Rebuilding Trust After Infidelity

Trust issues should be taken very seriously in a relationship. Trust is the key to connection, safety, and partnership. If you’ve noticed recently that your partner won’t answer the phone in front of you, or hides the phone when you’re around, you may have concerns.

Or perhaps you’ve noticed that your partner is staying up late at night on the computer. Whether you suspect that an emotional or physical affair is taking place, or you know that infidelity has occurred, hope is not lost.

Couples therapy can help you and your partner heal and restore your relationship. It takes time to rebuild trust, but it is possible!

Restoring Intimacy & Trust Takes Time

If there has been a serious violation of trust in your relationship, restoring intimacy might seem impossible. It might feel too hard or too time-consuming.

However, couples therapy is not about making a huge change to your relationship all at once.

Instead, you can learn to put little strategies in place to show your partner that you are willing to try. The small things you do each day can make a huge difference in your relationship.

In sessions, you can focus on taking steps toward rebuilding security, trust, and connection. This is the foundation of a healthy relationship.

What are the benefits of couples therapy?

Our romantic relationships can have a significant impact on our health, well-being and life satisfaction. Yet, we receive little education in relationship and communication skills.

These skills aren’t a given, particularly if you were raised in an environment with poor relational skills or simply the stress of outside adversity such as poverty, job loss, trauma, war, mental illness or other environmental influences on relationships.

No matter what stage your relationship is in, couples therapy can help protect your relationship for the long-term.

The benefits of couples therapy are the skills you learn, based on years of couples research, that you haven’t learned anywhere before.

It’s normal to need to learn skills to be successful in your relationship just as it is in any other area of life that is important.

Can my partner join me in my individual therapy sessions? Is this couples therapy?

There are also times when you might choose to explore your concerns in individual therapy. Perhaps you’ve experienced a trauma, or are struggling with greater than usual stress at work? Maybe you’ve struggled with depression, anxiety or an eating disorder for years and are ready to make some changes?

However, while you may decide to pursue individual counseling, including your partner in this process or addressing your concerns in couples therapy can be beneficial.

In this way, you are including your partner as a supportive member of your team. Further, you can understand what impact it may have on your relationship as well as your partner’s role. Improving your relationship can also lead to you feeling more supported overall.

This is not specifically couples therapy, but rather involving your partner as a support in your own healing process.

What is your approach to couples counseling?

Our couples counselors primarily draw from the following couples counseling skills:

Gottman Method couples counseling: the Gottman Method is based on years of research identifying what works in relationships. Gottman Method skills include communication, conflict management, increasing intimacy and friendship, and repairing past hurts.
Emotionally Focused Therapy: Emotionally Focused Therapy helps couples restore their bond with each other, learn effective emotional regulation skills, identify problematic communication and relational patterns, and increase emotional awareness, communication, and connection.
Imago Therapy: Imago Therapy helps couples improve communication and find new ways to meet each other's needs and resolve conflict.

You Can Connect with Your Partner Again

We believe that you have the power to make a positive change in your relationship. The qualified couples and marriage counselors at Eddins Counseling Group can help you access that power and put it into action. You don’t need to feel lonely, hurt, or frustrated by the person you love any more. You can begin to strengthen your bond again and build a healthy relationship together.