Relationships

Couples Therapy

Family
Therapy

Family therapy can help you resolve issues of trust, confidence, jealousy, sexual issues, and poor communication. Whether carried out with children, a couple, siblings, or parents and children, or any of these in combination, family therapy can include premarital and marital counselling, co-parenting counselling, and even separation counselling.

Family therapy can include premarital and marital counseling, co-parenting counseling, and even separation counseling.

Dr. Madrid is trained in the Gottman Method. The goals of the Gottman Method is to increase closeness and friendship behaviors, address conflict productively, and build a life of shared meaning together. The Gottman Method involves customizing principles from research to each couple’s particular patterns and challenges.

Rebuilding After an Affair

Couples who function effectively treat each other with consideration, respect, and actively work on maintaining trust.

It is not uncommon for couples in committed relationships to drift apart emotionally or sexually. With the natural stressors that occur in any relationship, frequent conflict can become the catalyst that drives couples apart. When partners begin to pull away from one another (whether it be emotionally, sexually, or both), the potential for an affair to occur increases.

Arguably, the most important part of couples therapy is helping each partner develop their capacity to forgive. Forgiveness is a complex process with many facets. It involves communication, understanding, trust, listening, and love. It’s hard work, but it’s worth it.

In jointly making the decision to work on the relationship, a good first step is seeking couple’s therapy and understand where ruptures first developed in your relationship.

Communication is key

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Many people think of communication simply as verbal communication, a straightforward way to get their message across to others. However, the message you think you are sending can often be misinterpreted. Non-verbal communication, our facial expressions and body movements, actually conveys over 90% of the emotional sense of what we are trying to express.

Getting help with communication problems

Good communication skills don’t always come naturally. If your therapy has demonstrated that your problem arises in part from poor communication skills that unintentionally create barriers, Dr. Madrid can help you learn healthier communication skills. These new skills will help create and maintain a deeper and stronger connection, and correct destructive patterns of interaction.

As John Gottman has explained, successful couples are not the ones that never have any arguments, they are the ones that can use their arguments as an opportunity to grow closer together.