Overview
Medically reviewed by Dr. Rabeya Afroz Shomi
What does a relationship counselor do?
Relationship counseling or couple therapy is a kind of psychotherapy. In specific, a relationship counselor is a trained expert professional who listens to individual challenges with empathy and helps the couple to overcome from negative feeling and thoughts. Counsellor also helps all type of couples or we can say different age group of couples to explore, recognize and resolve their own conflicts. Relationship counselor also helps partners to improve interaction and relationships. Along with that, tools are also provided to make intentional and thoughtful decisions about their relationship.
Can couples counseling help?
Counseling help couples to work through the hurdle such as personal and hard issues. So that they can move on and decide to rebuild their relationship. Counseling also helps partners to make a renewed commitment by addressing depression, relationship anxiety, parent-child challenges or individual psychological issues etc. It also helps them with clarify the reasons and better suggest them whether to continue or end their relationships. Counseling of couples could take few sessions in which counselor gives many task and suggestions to the couples which help couples to rebuild their understanding.
What is the success rate of couples counseling?
When it comes to the success of couples counseling, one of the biggest factors in it is counselor. In a case you are looking for a marriage counseling or a couple counseling. It’s been better to go for an expert marriage counselor. So that he/she can better address the issues between couples. Coming back to the success rate of couple counseling statistics show high rates of patient satisfaction. When it comes to couple counseling it takes less time than a individual counseling. It has been seen in many cases that couple counseling may lead to separation of couples. Facts says that therapy focused on emotions works most of the time.
How long does marriage counseling take to work?
Marriage counseling should be focused and strategic on helping couples in their relationship. Without planning and specific goals in mind, marriage counseling could be hash through recent problems. When it comes to help from marriage counseling, it could be largely determined by goals of couples, needs of couple, model used by counselor and other variables as well.
Does marriage counseling lead to divorce?
Typically couple counseling or marriage counseling doesn’t cause divorce. Usually therapy revels deep seated or unresolvable issues in the marriage. Not telling the truth to counselor or partner is a cause that lead to divorce. Due to the dishonesty of partners to each other lead to barriers in their relationship. Apart from that reason for after marriage counseling divorce is couples quits therapy too early. Marriage is a bonding which requires time, effort and energy. Couples with serious issues try marriage counseling as a last resort.
What is the purpose of marriage counseling?
It is a kind of psychotherapy, also known as couples therapy. The counselor helps couples to resolve their conflicts and start their relationship freshly. In easy words we could also say, marriage counseling helps couples with all types of relationships regardless of marital status and sexual orientation.
Marriage counseling is mainly required by the couples who want to strengthen their relationship and to begin better understanding between each other. Couples can also go for premarital counseling to iron out differences before marriage. Issues could be infidelity, anger, communication problems, sexual difficulties, etc.