First off, do you wonder if your partner is trustworthy? Do you miss the playfulness and sexual desire that was there when you first met? Does your marriage feel lonely, like something is missing? Do you have anxiety about negative communication patterns that is seeping into your relationship? Couples therapy in Mystic, Connecticut can be exactly what you need to build trust and playful desire.
At times, after fighting, do you feel hopeless about your future together? Maybe, your fights right now involve yelling and hurtful words.
And, after a fight, do you both end up separating and not talking to each other? So, if do you feel stuck in a stagnant cycle of negative communication? Well, holistic couples therapy in Mystic, Connecticut is exactly what you need. Essentially, couples therapy teaches you how to turn towards each other and show affection and even when life is trying to pull you apart.
What does turning towards each other mean as a skill in couples therapy in Mystic, Connecticut?
Right now, you might be turning towards one of your family members like a parent or a friend over your spouse. In Mystic, CT couples therapy, your counselor can teach you how to turn towards each other. Often times, distant couples turn towards something else instead of their spouse. And, this is the first step of disconnection and loneliness. For example, one person might turn towards alcohol instead of reaching for their partners hand. In a conflict, one partner might leave the house in anger and squeal out of the driveway. As well, turning away in a negative was is like slamming the door to try to communicate something you are feeling.
In holistic couples therapy in Mystic, Connecticut, your therapist can teach you how to use touch and affection to be more gentle.
As well, it’s common for couples to want positive coping tools for a strong emotional foundation. Seeking counseling for your relationship health and connection is powerful. Essentially, getting into creative couples therapy in Mystic, Connecticut sooner than later will be so much better for your long-term marriage. A lot of times, the best time to learn emotional connection tools for intimacy is before a bunch of problems have begun to snowball together.
Fears from the past play a role in couples therapy in Mystic, Connecticut
At Wisdom Within Counseling, we look at you as a whole person. So, your couples therapist will look at your past, present, and future. Right now, one fear might being getting cheated on. So, you might wonder at 2am if your partner is cheating on you or talking to someone behind your back. Looking at your past trauma experiences and PTSD therapy can help. Perhaps, one of your ex relationship partners was cheating on you. And, that memory plays a role in this romantic relationship and your current fears. Now, your marriage therapist in Mystic, CT can help you discuss this lingering fear about cheating and infidelity within your current relationship.
Over time, marriage counseling in Mystic, Connecticut can help you gain mental clarity.
Maybe, you are juggling premarital stressors like rude attitudes and drama from your family. Or, you are postponing your wedding from last year to this year. And, thinking about doing it all over again is really emotional. And, communication and conflicts are making your relationship feel negative.
With these stressors, holistic couples therapy and Mystic, Connecticut can provide you emotional expression outlets.
As a couple, you can create a feeling of togetherness in counseling. And, you can do so while overcoming these premarital stresses as a team.
Maybe, you were going through some major life changes like moving from engagement to marriage and planning a wedding.
As well, you might be having worries about wedding planning. Often, pre-marital couples who postponed their wedding seek counseling. Perhaps, you are juggling the wishes of your parents and fiancé’s parents. And, it all feels overwhelming, and you wish it felt more fun. Or, maybe one of you has a job or career where seeking counseling help is looked down upon. So, Wisdom Within Counseling can offer you private therapy to gain positive coping tools for these relationship stresses. To add to your plate, did an in-law, sibling, or a spouse get a new chronic illness diagnosis.
To begin, book a phone consult for communication and confidence through couples therapy in Mystic, Connecticut using the button below.
Frequently, Wisdom Within Counseling work with premarital couples and long-term couples who want coping tools for emotional intimacy.
Wisdom Within Counseling teaches skills for connection, so you can use them for the rest of your life. And, these positive skills help you playfully maintain the foundation of your marital love. Now, there are always going to be things that could cause a crack in your relationship, if you and your spouse let them. Maybe, your ex partner from 10 years ago reached out. So, that temptation is there. Or, your spouse’s parent wants to move into the house with you. And, an argument could potentially break out, if you let it. Maybe, your young adult is developing alcoholism and has addiction struggles. And, this pain is pushing you and your spouse apart. Really, no matter how severe, there will always be stressors that can create a wedge between you and your spouse.
Over time, couples therapy and Mystic, Connecticut gives you a toolbox of intimacy and connection tools to identify potential things that could hurt your marriage.
On top of that, do you and your smile struggle with negative communication cycles?
Maybe, you didn’t get to learn these things in childhood and negative patterns are repeating. Remember, seeking couples counseling is a sign of true strength and self-awareness. With your couples counselor, you can learn about childhood patterns that are repeating in your romantic relationship. Without therapy, distant couples will often act in the same ways that they saw their own parents act towards each other.
Watching your parents fight in childhood leaves a lasting memory that plays a role in couples therapy in Mystic, Connecticut today
But, looking back at your own parents, you may have felt betrayed, hurt, abandoned, or even anxiety around some of their conflict. For example, one part of you wants to break this negative cycle and learn positive communication skills. Deep down, you want to be a different kind of parent than you had. But, you know that you need professional counseling help to learn those important communication tools.
Now, your couples counselor can help you pause when you are going down and negative communication pattern.
So, right in session, your Mystic, Connecticut couples counselor can pause you both and help to highlight the pattern that is reoccurring. A lot of times, childhood trauma plays a role in current communication patterns. In couples counseling in Mystic, Connecticut, we help you see your relationship in four realms. We help you observe moment to moment, daily, yearly, and generationally patterns. Maybe, there was an interaction with a grandparent or a family member of yours that was traumatic. All of these play a role in your current marriage and making your marriage loving and setting it up for success.
And addition, we specialize with gender queer, gender questioning, pansexual people and polyamorous relationships.
A lot of times, general therapists do not know how to confidently talk about gender identity, sexual orientation, polyamory, or gender fluidity. But, we specialize with children, teenagers, and couples who want to talk about gender and same-sex relationships in a positive light.
In addition, we help couples who want to open their marriage, she was an alternative marriage style, or be polyamorous.
Sometimes, couples wants an open marriage for a variety of reasons. And, we highly recommend opening your marriage or being polyamorous with the guidance of a marriage counselor who specializes in LGBTQIA+ marriage counseling.
A lot of times, we also work with couples where one or both people are transgender or gender nonconforming.
If your spouse is transgender, and you are sis gender, you might feel concerned or anxiety. Maybe, you got married thinking that your spouse was also cisgender, but they recently have been coming out to you. Many times, we don’t get education on LGBTQ, gender identity, or sexual orientation. When your spouse comes out as bisexual or pansexual, you might feel concerned and even question the future of your marriage’. It’s normal to feel afraid, but through counseling, you can learn how to communicate what you need calmly.
To begin, book a phone consult for creative, holistic, expressive couples therapy in Mystic, Connecticut using the button below.
Has your spouse come out as gender queer, non binary, and want you to use they/them pronouns?
Maybe, you are feeling worried about them, but also want to be supportive. So, working with an LGBTQIA+ affirming therapist can help you navigate the coming out process in a confident way. To note, both the individual and the couple unit have their own coming out process.
As well, the LGBTQIA+ affirming therapists at Wisdom Within Counseling understand the oppression and marginalization felt.
And, we understand the prejudice and bullying that LGBTQIA+ teens and couples face on a daily basis. Sometimes, this bullying comes from extended family or a close family member.
Maybe, and your parenting unit, you have a child or adolescent who identifies as non-binary.
Your family therapist can help be an advocate for their non-binary gender expression at school and at home. As well, your family therapist can help you in parent sessions strengthen your marriage. And, your therapist can offer a family counseling to help your entire family feel closer and a sense of connection through your adolescent’s coming out process.
Therefore, if you have a spouse or a child who identifies as transgender or non-binary our therapists specialize in LGBTQ counseling in Connecticut.
Perhaps, you want an LGBTQIA+ therapist to help you feel educated and be more affirming to your loved one, your spouse, or a child who is transgender.
As well, we help gender questioning, LGBTQIA and queer couples. Maybe, you are in a same-sex relationship and want a therapist to understand your specific struggles. Or, your child has come out as non-binary and you and your spouse have different perspectives on how to parent gender.
Overall, marriage and family therapy can help you improve your communication and seamlessly get through life transitions together.
On that note, the team of couples therapists in Mystic, Connecticut at Wisdom Within Counseling like to say that you may have learned about math and science in school. But, you don’t get education on healthy relationships, or how to express or cope with challenging emotions. Maybe, anger or anxiety are hard to express in calm ways. Now, no one teaches us how to do that. So, just like you would go grocery shopping weekly, therapy is a healthy routine weekly too. Or, in the way you may exercise to strengthen your body, we think of your therapy session as a spa day for your mind.
In couples therapy in Mystic, Connecticut, you can strengthen yourself emotionally, and you can leave feeling more centered and confident in your relationship.
Your holistic couples therapist in Mystic, Connecticut can provide professional guidance, outside of home, work, and school. Therefore, you can overcome challenges. Plus, in couples therapy in Mystic, Connecticut, you can learn to heal from complex trauma and past painful experiences. Your couples therapist may use painting, art, yoga, and nature walks outdoors to support you in finding meaningful, new life purpose.
As well, your therapist can help you understand if your anxieties today may be related to a trauma from when you were a child.
To begin, book a phone consult for couples therapy in Mystic, Connecticut using the button below.
Also, in couples therapy in Mystic, Connecticut, your therapist will offer you positive coping tools.
You get to learn about what negativity you want to let go of and create a positive, nurturing relationship with yourself and others.
Wisdom Within Counseling loves to help you feel safe expressing your emotions, os you can choose from holistic therapies.
To make holistic couples therapy in Mystic, Connecticut a priority, you may need to cut back financially in other areas. So, may may go to therapy instead of going out to dinner or the bar twice a week. As well, your couples therapist in Mystic, Connecticut can offer you book recommendations and lifelong relaxation tools.
Our team has extensive relationship training, which helps couples overcome conflicts, poor communication, emotional distance, sexual difficulties, infidelity, money, and parenting.
To add, your therapist helps you learn skills to build a loving, long-term relationship, trust, and rekindle intimacy. Your Mystic, CT marital therapist can help you develop a secure couple bubble with healthy communication. Plus, your relationship counselor will identify areas that need strengthening, and see unhealthy patterns that you can’t.
We like to focus on the family as a unit, so in couples therapy you’ll learn ways to grow positively alongside each other.
Mystic, Connecticut marriage counseling takes a holistic approach. Essentially, offering creative therapy allows us to help you be playful again. So, with holistic art therapy each session is all about your relationship needs that day.
For Mystic, CT couples to get playful together again, we have expert training to guide you in art therapies, yoga, music, drama, and outdoor walk and talk sessions.
You can feel stronger, clear your head, and build a self-care toolbox through holistic skills for your whole self in mind, body, and spirit. Also, you can can repair past hurts, focus on the present moment. Furthermore, you can choose from going outdoors for a walk by the beach or talking. Lastly, your therapist may ask you to do a playful improv, or skit, do acting, or use drama therapy.
Have you ever tried drama therapy in couples therapy in Mystic, Ct?
Drama therapy is so fun for providing couples new coping tools for intimacy. Maybe, you want to paint together to bring back relaxation. Or, you want to do yoga together and learn a new skill physically. Sometimes, it is easy to talk it out. But, in those moments when talking is only causing you to shut down, your martial therapist will suggest a holistic, creative, positive coping skill.
Overall, art, yoga, music, and walking therapies provide mental relief for a foundation of connection.
For example, issues we love helping include alcoholism, pornography addiction, work-life balance, blending families after divorce, chronic illness, divorce, extended family, intimacy, anxiety, depression, loss, pre-marital support, sex positivity.
Lastly, you and your spouse can build a strong foundation for the future, while creating a sense of shared meaning
As well, we specialize in offering Gottman Couples therapy. And, our marriage therapists have level two trainings. Also, our marital counselors hours of extensive marriage counseling training with LGBTQIA+ couples. So, if you want to talk about BDSM, alternative relationships, or opening your marriage, we can help.
Also, you may have a long-term marriage and want the feeling of getting back into dating each other again.
So, your couples therapist can help you rejuvenate your friendship. Maybe, you need help as a spouse because your spouse is coming out as gay to you. You have a safe place to talk about your new fluid sexuality and gender identity. Wisdom Within Counseling enjoys helps couples talk about what it means to be bisexual. We can discuss a range of topics like infertility, women’s lifespan issues, pregnancy, post pregnancy, motherhood, parenting, and offer empowerment. In couples therapy in Mystic, Connecticut, we specialize with complex marriage issues like OCD, C-PTSD, eating disorders, and trauma.
