Couples Therapy
IMPROVING RELATIONSHIP FUNCTIONING
Gestalt therapy provides couples with the opportunity to seek new ways of communicating and creatively resolving conflicts in the relationship.
Couples therapy in the Gestalt approach involves the joint work of both partners with a therapist to expand awareness of themselves, their own needs, and expectations of their partner, as well as established patterns of behavior and functioning in the relationship. I offer short- and medium-term therapy for couples in both informal and marital relationships:
Short-term couples therapy is a cycle of several weekly sessions of an interventional nature focused on immediate support in restoring understanding and communication in the relationship in the context of current conflicts or difficulties that led to the decision to start therapy for couples.
Medium-term couples therapy is a cycle of several meetings held once every 1-2 weeks, the aim of which is to improve communication and solve relationship problems by increasing awareness of one's own feelings, needs and expectations of the partner.
What are the benefits of couples therapy?
Gestalt therapy allows couples to discover self-limiting beliefs and established mechanisms of behavior that perpetuate conflicts and cause difficulties in functioning. It offers the opportunity to try new behaviors towards a partner, and thus learn new, creative ways of resolving conflicts and communicating one's thoughts, feelings, and needs.
When is it worth starting couples therapy?
I invite not only couples currently experiencing conflict to work together, but also, and perhaps above all, couples who want to systematically work on improving the quality of their relationship through periodic preventive psychotherapy in order to derive more satisfaction from living together and to more consciously, responsibly, and creatively resolve conflicts and relationship problems as they arise.
A condition for starting couples therapy is the simultaneous decision of both partners to start working together with a therapist towards understanding and improving communication in the relationship.
What does the first session in couples psychotherapy look like?
The first meeting is a consultation and may, but does not have to, end with the couple's decision to start therapy. It may also lead to the decision of one or both partners to undertake individual psychotherapy with another therapist.
“The pillars of the temple stand apart, and the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other’s shadow.”
— Khalil Gibran, "The Prophet"
