Couples counseling is the setting where two individuals have formed an exclusive relationship and are seeking to improve upon it through counseling.
Couples are not only exclusive, but they can include non-traditional pairings such as individuals who are engaged to be married, single and living together for the long term, mixed racial, mixed sexual orientation or any combination.
This excludes individuals who are considered minors.
When a relationship involves two individuals, typically one of those individuals is more motivated to change than another.
Couples enter counseling at different stages of development and committment.
Some couples have formed their relationship early in their lives. USUALLY they are close in age, but sometimes there are wide age differences.
Some couples are still committed to staying together while others have considered separation or divorce.
Some couples are formed with individuals from different cultures, with different rules and beliefs about roles, expectations and definitions of what constituted healthy intimacy and sexuality.
Most couples have comunication problems and problems being understood by their partner.
Counseling does not work well when one person is INITIALLY identified as causing the problems.
The biggest issue is who is, and who isn’t willing or capable to stay in a couple when change has to occur mutually.
Here is a link to a related post called Couples in Conflict here at Sawayer Logistics: https://sawayer.com/?p=3387
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