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- Queen Elizabeth Health Complex
2100 Marlowe
Suite 626
Montreal, Qc, H4A 3L6
514-482-3327
Couple Therapy
Couple therapy can help you:
- Understand your partner’s emotions leading to increased trust
- Improve poor communication
- Obtain skills to de-escalate conflict
- Increase emotional & sexual intimacy
- Achieve & maintain a high level of overall marital/couple satisfaction
- Solve specific problems such as finances, division of household chores, infidelity, parenting, dealing with extended family, etc…
How can couple therapy help?
- Emotion-focused couple therapy can help you identify and change negative patterns of interaction. Discover the hidden emotions behind your partner’s communication. Use this information to change your own behavior and break the negative cycle of interaction.
- Couple therapy can help improve communication between spouses or partners by teaching couples to listen more effectively. Discover what listening entails and how it can help your partner feel understood and more connected to you. In addition, learn to be assertive rather than passive or aggressive.
- All couples have disagreements. Research has shown that as long as disagreements do not escalate to the level of hatred they are not harmful. Learn to de-escalate conflict before it becomes damaging by applying the “FIVE FAIR FIGHTING RULES”.
- Couple therapy can help you increase emotional and sexual intimacy:
- - learn to identify your needs and increase the possibility that your partner will meet your needs by expressing them assertively.
- - reconnect sexually through SENSATE FOCUS – a 4 point behavioral plan that systematically reduces anxiety related to physical intimacy allowing you to enjoy sex again.
- Happy couples have a 5 to 1 ratio of positive to negative interactions. For every negative interaction (e.g. an argument, unnecessary criticism, etc…) happy couples experience 5 positive interactions (e.g. a hug, kiss, complement, constructive criticism, etc…). To be happy it is important to increase positive interactions. Though this element of therapy is critical to maintaining a satisfying relationship it is often overlooked!