Couples Counseling
Couples therapy in Miami is for partners who care about each other but keep having the same conversation without getting anywhere. In sessions, we help you slow those conversations down and find new ways to talk about what matters to each of you. We see couples in person at our Coral Gables and Coconut Grove offices, and online.
Common Pressures
Meeting by video can make it much easier to find an hour when you're both free. You can join together from one place or separately from two, although sitting side by side usually helps when that's possible.
Both of you need to be physically located in Florida or New York during each session.
We use the Gottman framework to look at your conflict patterns: how arguments start, what makes them escalate and why attempts to repair things get missed or turned away. Emotionally focused therapy then looks at the emotional cycle beneath the arguments, including how each of you reaches for the other and what happens when that connection feels lost.
Getting Started as a Couple
It's common for one partner to want couples therapy more than the other. A reasonable first step is to agree to a few sessions and then decide together whether to continue. Some people start with individual sessions and invite their partner to join later.
In the first few sessions, we'll talk about how you met, what has been good between you, when things began to feel strained and what each of you hopes will be different.
The aim early on is a shared picture of what keeps happening between you, without deciding who is right.
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