When to Seek Marriage Counseling

There’s no wrong time to seek marriage counseling. Rather, it’s best to make regular therapy sessions a habit in your marriage. This could mean meeting together with a therapist every couple months or as frequently as once a week.

Seek Marriage Counseling From the Start

No matter where you are in your relationship, seeking marriage counseling or couples counseling from the start will form a foundation between you and your significant other from which you can then grow. Most conflict in relationships stems from our own individual attachment patterns. Our attachment styles are formed in the first twelve months of life and reinforced throughout childhood and adolescence. These adaptions are wired into the nervous system and body and are outside of conscious awareness for the most part. During conflict, a couple attempts to resolve the topic of contest but their attachment styles conflict and sabotage their efforts.

How Marriage Counseling Works

Seeking marriage counseling before you tie the knot will help you and your significant other identify one another’s attachment styles so that when conflict does arise you are better equipped to alleviate the other’s needs. In marriage counseling, we work to identify the attachment styles and developmental wounds that trigger trauma in both partners. Then, the reparative behavior or unmet need from the attachment wound is identified and these same interactions now become healing moments, rather than the re-traumatizing ones.
Couple’s and marriage counseling will involve sessions which will help both you and your partner identify specific relationship challenges, as well as relationship strengths which are then incorporated into a customized treatment plan. This treatment plan will help you work on issues in a neutral environment – together.
Seek marriage counseling now and experience an increased capacity for emotional expression and intimacy in your relationship. Call (561)797-0631 or visit our website for more information.