“A great marriage is not when the perfect couple comes together; it is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.”
Relationships and Couples Counseling
Many of us have deep desires to have more fulfilling, meaningful relationships with other people in our lives. We often idealize or imagine that we should have these loving relationships with family members, friends, and romantic partners, but then feel ourselves filled with frustration, dread or anxiety around the way things go. When we feel a lack of connection or closeness in our relationships, this can lead to feeling more intense pain, sadness, and isolation when things don’t go as planned.
We Offer Effective Counseling for Individuals & Couples
At Denver Emotional Health, we provide relationship counseling to those who are experiencing pain in a variety of relationships, a very important part of life. We provide counseling to individuals who have difficulties with their partners, family members, and friends. We also offer counseling to those seeking skills that helps them to connect with others in more deeper, satisfying ways. We are a sex-positive organization whose values include inclusivity and diversity. Our focus is solely on helping you become the partner, friend, or family member you wish to be; our approach to couples therapy is guided by the evidence-based therapy approaches of Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy and Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT).
Our Approach To Couples Counseling
Undoubtedly, every relationship experiences distress and conflict. Our approach helps couples explore the dynamics and patterns in their relationship that stem from various parts of our minds which contribute to distress in our lives and relationships. We work with couples to identify and change problematic or extreme behavior. We work to identify negative patterns and triggers that couples typically finds themselves in, and we help explore underlying wounds, avoided thoughts and feelings that impact the relationship; we help couples heal old wounds and establish new connections. Overall, a goal of couples therapy in our view is to help couples feel safer and more connected through the ability to have the difficult conversations with both themselves and each other, and that can transform a relationship into a more closely connected, loving partnership .
Couples counseling at Denver Emotional Health gives partners a chance to explore in a safe environment some of the most challenging relationship issues and questions. Our skilled couples counselor can help couples find more effective ways of relating to themselves, as well as communicating with each other and developing new skills to address areas where they feel most stuck. There are a number of benefits that we can help couples achieve through counseling, including learning new tools to more skillfully address ongoing difficulties both inside and externally in the relationship. We will help couples enhance their intimacy and connection, and help couples on the verge of separation renew and rediscover the love and passion they once shared.
More often than not, couples leaves couples counseling strengthened, and more vibrant and alive than their relationship had been in the past. On certain occasions, a couple may decide together to end their relationship and our trained therapist will help guide you through what may appear to be a really challenging, traumatic process. Ultimately, we would never dictate what is right for you in your relationship, and will help you and your partner determine your own set of values to be guided by.
Let Us Help You Heal & Improve Your Relationship
At Denver Emotional Health, our trained couples and family therapists use approaches based in science and research. Our work will help you develop a new view of your relationship, change the problematic and dysfunctional behavior that often leads or maintains fights, decrease emotional avoidance internally and externally, and improve communication and strengths between the couple.
Our therapists will help guide a couple through a problem-solving process to resolution on each of their stuck points, and in a way that helps both partners feel supported and heard. We will work to teach the couple various parts-work, and mindfulness-based skills, to help handle any future differences together, without falling into the traps that lead to resentment, blame, disengagement and detachment or fighting. We will also engage couples and provide skills to help keep intense emotion from derailing the positive feelings that each has for the other, learn how to work with inner parts and heal deep/old wounds. This helps keep a positive and loving emotional tone between the couple, improves communication and reduces stress, despite natural difficulties that arise from trauma-filled lives. By helping each other see how early experiences contribute to present-day bad habits and unhelpful behaviors, we can learn to detach from old patterns to help prevent ongoing/escalating fighting and intense emotional reactivity.
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