Couples Therapy
Relationships require constant attention, understanding, and collaboration. Couples therapy helps couples and families resolve conflicts, improve communication, and strengthen emotional bonds.
When is it worth seeking couples psychotherapy?
Communication difficulties
Very often, arguments are not caused by the conflict itself, but by the wrong way to solve it.
Emotional distance
When partners feel distant, lack shared activities, conversations, sense of togetherness, couples therapy can help restore closeness and trust.
Constant disagreements
Recurring conflicts over household matters, finances, child-rearing, time management and other areas often overshadow mutual respect and love.
Experienced crises
Surviving difficult events such as infidelity, loss of loved ones, job loss or other life upheavals sometimes becomes a huge challenge for relationships.
Professional help from a psychologist or psychotherapist for couples or families
Couples therapy consultations most often address communication, trust, emotional intimacy, or relationship difficulties. This helps overcome past grievances, relationship crises, and common challenges at work or in the family. GoTherapy specialists help understand the deeper causes of conflicts and provide tools for how to deal with them effectively, thus promoting mutual growth and better emotional well-being. In the worst case, if the couple cannot be saved, couples therapy helps to separate with dignity.
Most common couples therapy problems
Communication difficulties and misunderstandings
When partners have difficulty expressing their needs, thoughts or feelings, the likelihood of misunderstandings and miscommunication increases. Constantly recurring conflicts can significantly worsen the quality of relationships, reduce trust and openness.
Loss of trust
Trust can be weakened by infidelity, lies or long-term emotional distancing. Restoring mutual trust is important not only in resolving current disagreements, but also in maintaining the strength of future family relationships.
Emotional coldness
When partners no longer share feelings, no longer care for each other or feel like strangers, emotional coldness grows in the couple. Professional couple psychologist consultations help understand accumulated difficulties and restore closeness and emotional openness again.
Value and goal differences
Mismatches in value beliefs or future plans (e.g., child-rearing, choice of residence, career expectations) can cause long-term arguments and loss of meaning in the couple. Couples psychotherapy sessions teach understanding different perspectives of each other, learning to live with one's own and others' uniqueness.
Financial disagreements
Different attitudes towards income, expenses or savings are one of the most common sources of anger and distrust. Conversations with a couples psychologist can help partners successfully find a balance between different financial behaviors and priorities.
Intimacy problems
Difficulties arising in the area of intimacy are often closely related to emotional connection. With the help of a couples psychologist, a couple can begin to talk openly about intimacy problems, overcome dissatisfaction or withdrawal, improving both physical and emotional intimacy.
Couples therapy helps when:
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the cost of couples therapy?
Each GoTherapy specialist working with couples sets their own prices. Usually a couples therapy session costs more than an individual session. This is due to the greater workload for the psychotherapist and the longer session duration. GoTherapy prices range from €60 to €150 per session. It can be said that the average cost of a couple consultation is about €85.
How long does a couples psychotherapy session last?
Since couples therapy sessions usually require more time than individual therapy, session duration can be between one hour to two hours. Most often sessions last about an hour and a half or an hour and twenty minutes.
Is couples therapy only suitable for married people?
No. All couples can seek couples therapy - regardless of marital status or time spent together.
Will there be an opportunity for each partner to meet individually with the therapist?
Some psychologists offer individual consultations when partners meet with the couples psychotherapist separately, especially if there is a need to talk more about personal issues. In any case, this is arranged individually, and it is best to agree on this at the beginning of therapy. Some couples specialists strictly refuse such counseling, considering the couple as one, indivisible client.
What to do if only one of the partners wants to attend couples therapy?
Of course, it is most effective when the couple participates together, but initially one person can also visit - in an individual session and agree with the psychologist about couple counseling. In any case, for couples work in psychotherapy to be successful, it is very important for both partners to get involved in couples therapy.
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