Marital Therapy

Marital therapy focuses on relationship problems between two people.

Relationship problems can stem from individual issues that each person brings to the marriage (union)) and from the way the couple interacts with each other.

In marital therapy, a psychologist will help partners identify rough areas.  Each may be asked to examine what the conflicts are, what changes need to be made, and what it will take for both to feel more satisfied.

The couple will likely learn different ways to cope with personal issues and new ways of interacting within the relationship.  Marital therapy teaches people how to communicate more effectively and how to listen better.  It also teaches that each person in the relationship needs to feel important.  Partners learn how to find common goals, stop competing with each other, express romantic feelings, equally divide labor, express emotion in a healthy way, show appreciation for one another, and to share responsibility.