COUPLE THERAPY
The objective of Couples Therapy is to improve the quality of coexistence of each partner, their communication, their skills to solve family problems and helping to make their affective-sexual relationship closer and happier.
These goals are achieved through a learning process, in which the therapist helps them learn new communication skills and new problem-solving techniques to improve the exchange of loving words and actions.
When a couple suffers from a deteriorating relationship, we don't think that one of them is to blame for the problem. We focus on the relationship, and what we can do to increase the exchange of loving and respectful behaviours between partners, to improve their problem-solving skills and to decrease their tendency to hurt and criticise each other.
Our "A GUIDE TO IMPROVING RELATIONSHIPS"provides the basis for the work needed to change destructive behaviour in couples. The guide shows a series of basic strategies that help to improve the relationship between the two partners, to change their communication habits and finally to solve problems, according to a progressive scheme:
We believe that everyone can learn to specify the behaviours they like and dislike in their partner, and learn to express these feelings of liking (or disliking) to them. He or she can also learn to specify agreeable behaviours when he or she receives them from his or her spouse, and can learn how to come to terms with their differences and conflicts in a mutually satisfying way. If one is adept at learning these skills, one will find that one's relationship becomes more rewarding, richer and deeper. The communication and problem-solving skills that facilitate a successful relationship can be learned in sessions alone or as a couple with the therapist but, in whatever form, much is expected of each in these sessions.
Each person needs to be honest about what is blocking a satisfying relationship, and practice the key behaviours to get the relationship they want.
With a cognitive-behavioural orientation, the main intervention technique applied is the Rational Emotive Behavioural Therapy (REBT)founded by Dr. Albert Ellis in 1955, being the pioneer of cognitive-behavioural therapies, characterised by its high effectiveness and its short duration (between 3 and 6 months of treatment approximately), equivalent to 10-20 sessions, and with notable improvements in the first five sessions.
Our procedure consists of an assessment session with one or both members of the couple, and once we have seen the problem and its possible causes, a personalised treatment plan is drawn up. The frequency of the sessions is weekly or fortnightly.
The most common couple problems we deal with are:
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