Why do holistic couples therapy?
Holistic couples therapy means that you are getting a therapist that sees you as a whole person. Looking at you as a whole person take specific training and expertise in holistic marital therapies. If you go to traditional therapy, you might just be looked at as a problem. Your therapist might not have the training or experience to see your childhood, your spouses childhood, trauma, medical issues, and your current fights all connected.
Holistic couples therapy can help you improve your relationship, build happiness, and health together.
You can feel stronger in your communication and you can feel more interconnected. For many couples, stress, conflict, and anger get in the way of building a meaningful connection. You might find yourselves in moments of disconnection, exhaustion, or even anger. Hurt and betrayal enter a romantic relationship and it is hard for couples to get back on track.
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Holistic relationship therapy can help reduce pain, start bridging that difficult conversation, and promote healing.
Relationship therapy can be a place to rebuild love and respect for each other, while also learning how to support each other better. If you find yourselves in a negative, repeating arguments or fights, where you are raising your voice, Wisdom Within Counseling can help.
As well, do you feel like you are being blamed, or that you are never feeling heard by your partner?
You might also feel criticized regularly, inferior, in adequate, or even talked down to. As well, you might feel misunderstood and deeply want to feel understood by your intimate partner. In addition, your intimacy and sex life may be decreasing rapidly. One of you might be withholding sacks because you don’t feel safe or loved.
Infertility stress
As well, medical issues, health issues, or even infertility can cause heaviness around intimacy. Your sexual connection may not be satisfying for either of you any more and couples therapy can help. As well, you may have lingering hurt, unresolved trauma, or anger in your relationship. There may have been moments in the past that caused disappointment and hurt on both sides.
Sometimes, one or both people may have been in an emotional or physical affair creating even more distance.
So, holistic couples therapy with a holistic approach can help you rebuild communication in a positive way and slow things down.
Disconnection comes from stress, parenting, running a household, and lack of affection, chronic pain, loss, or major health issues.
There may have sleeping problems or eating problems due to these health issues. One of you may be taking a caretaker role in the other one might be needing caretaking. As well, holistic marriage therapy looks to balance you love life. And, marriage therapy helps to restore balance within your relationship.
We can help you understand where the jealousy comes from and how to communicate your feelings in a calm way.
One of you may also struggle with anxiety, jealousy, or be possessive. Sometimes, couples struggle with boredom and getting stuck in a lull. Being at a low point in your relationship means that you would definitely benefit from holistic couples therapy.
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As holistic couples therapists, we focus on lifestyle changes to rebuild connection.
These changes might include sleep, nutrition, eating, and overall improving your health holistically. Talking about emotions, how to build affection, and getting to know each other better like you did on your first date, can rebuild attraction and sexual desire. In holistic couples therapy, you can help put your relationship back on track in a positive way. Often times, in school we are not taught how to build healthy relationships or simply be married. We are taught how to do math and science, but we never learn about how to process emotions or overcomes shame.
What is different about holistic couples therapy?
A lot of times, couples get stuck in the blame game. You might feel like your partner is taking everything from you and not giving back. In couples therapy, we help reduce negative communication. And, you can improve communication, and find positive ways to connect. Holistic approaches help rebuild the core of your romantic relationship.
Holistic therapy is very different than traditional marriage therapy.
In addition, traditional marriage therapy is just talk based. You might enjoy talking about issues and problems, which can be very beneficial. However, in addition to traditional talk therapy, and the Gottman couple therapy method, we offer creative, holistic options. Holistic therapies can include art, painting, meditation, mindfulness, learning about the chakras, learning about Ayurveda, and even yoga therapies. Drama therapies, role-plays, and even musical instruments and music therapy can be a part of couples counseling.
How many ways can couples communicate?
In holistic marriage counseling, we believe that there are many ways couples communicate. For one, you might find that body language as a way that couples communicate. So, if you cross your arms, your partner might have a negative reaction emotionally. If you smile, your partner might smile back at you. As well, if you become angry or frustrated, your partner might start becoming angry or frustrated too. Couples communicate in so many ways beyond words. So, we highlight the creative arts aspects and foster emotional connection is through holistic arts.
You can communicate with art, painting, and playing musical instrument.
Also, you can get couples therapy homework like making a playlist about love songs for your partner.
You can communicate not just by talking as many times, and talking goes negative quickly.
We believe that yoga can be a great way to build mind-body connection. Certain poses, yoga nidra, and even meditation can help you communicate with your partner and build deeper intimacy in your communication.
What does holistic even mean?
Holistic therapy means that we are looking at your whole self. We look at your mind, your body, and your spirit. In terms of your mind, you may have a lot of different feelings from jealousy, the wanting to be heard, to feeling sad.
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And all of these emotions are valid.
However, these emotions get stuck in your body and often manifest as disease or discomfort.
You might have low back pain, headaches, or even trouble concentrating. Sometimes couples and conflict have trouble sleeping as well.
Lastly, we look at your spirit. From developing a more spiritual connection to yourself, your partner, in the world, you can start to transcend the challenges your body has.
The more connected you become to your body, mind, and spirit, the more connected you can become your intimate relationship.
How do you develop a mind, body, spirit connection?
Meditation, yoga, expressive arts, and even drama therapies can truly help your marriage improve. Your marriage may be in place of conflict and distress. These expressive art therapies can help improve happiness, strength, and overall mental health for both people. It takes two solid, healthy people to build a loving, long lasting marriage. If one of you feels blamed or criticized, it means that couples therapy can help improve coping tools.
Also, art therapies, yoga therapy, drama therapies, and music therapies help to foster self-love and self acceptance.
From that inner clarity, you can bring a positive, loving self to your marriage instead of a negative self. If you are experiencing hurt anger, it is normal to bring negativity to your marriage. You want to feel loved. Instead, holistic, creative therapies help you figure out what you are trying to say gently. Art therapies help your therapist analyze and understand your pain. From understanding your trauma and pain, your couples therapist will get insight into your relationship and helps you rebuild it.
We can teach you certain holistic tools and techniques to remove criticism and instead to build connection.
Building playfulness and joy as possible through drama therapy and improv games. Yoga helps to build relaxation for couples who often have anger issues.
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Expressive arts can help to reset your nervous system if you have fear or anxiety. Our team likes to use holistic couples therapy to teach you ways to center yourself. Then, you have a toolbox to rebuild the best marriage and family life you can possibly have. And, you can teach your children these fun and playful techniques too.
What are ways meditation, yoga, and expressive arts can help your marriage?
More so, music therapy in holistic couples counseling helps you reconnect to the very beginning. So, think back to your love songs when you were first dating. Also, try to remember the feeling you had dancing to your wedding song. Couples usually forget these moments when they are in a heated conflict or argument.
A lot of times, couples get tunnel vision where they just see the negative issues when they are in a conflict.
As well, making a playlist of all the songs that helps you think positively about your partner can be a great coping tool. When you are in a conflict, you can play these songs and help your partner destress and remember the good times. Therefore, we can teach you different music therapy techniques like playing a variety of different instruments.
Music therapy for couples
Playing a drum can help you share what it feels like to experience anger. Or, playing a singing bowl can help you share with your partner what it feels like to experience calmness. We may also recommend different musical instruments for you to have in your home if you are at working with us on video counseling.
Music therapy in holistic couples therapy
Trauma therapy is also a great way to improve your couple bubble and your relationship. More so, many couples just go to marriage counseling that is talk oriented. Unfortunately, just talking about that she doesn’t usually get to the court issue. So, we use drama therapy to help you role-play and embody different experiences. Additionally, you can switch roles and try to be each other. As well, different fun improv games like gift giving, or mirroring are really playful and health couples rebuild after.
Drama therapy can be a wonderful part of marriage counseling and improve the intimacy, joy, and happiness in your marriage.
How can drama therapy help improve your relationship?
Art therapies are also wonderful for couples who have experiences of conflict and trauma. Plus, art therapies help with PTSD and trauma symptoms. Many times, couples push through these experiences and never talk about them. If one of you has mental health issues, or even physical health issues, you might just be stuck in a cycle of caretaking.
As well, there might be built up anger and hurt, or even emotional decisions that holistic art therapy can help with.
Also, art therapy can help you paint, use clay, watercolor, or even beads to rebuild connection. Doing holistic couples therapy, you can find an outlet for intense emotions. In addition, art therapy helps couples break the cycle of being stuck. You might not know what else to do when you’ve tried everything this far.
Working with a creative arts specialist in couples therapy can help you rebuild your relationship and learn effective ways to communicate better.
Your couples therapist might even ask you to work on a painting together to improve your communication. A couples therapist are trained and expressive arts and know how to help you build a holistic marriage and meaningful connection you desire.
In what ways can art therapy be a part of holistic couples therapy?
Often times, couples come to us because traditional therapy has failed them. You may have gone to a couple therapists and found yourselves arguing in the office. However, the marital therapist just sat there and didn’t do anything. Or, your couples counselor told you that you had a problem and did not seem to provide any tools to support you.
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At Wisdom Within Counseling, holistic couples therapy involves giving you a coping toolbox for deeper love.
Just like you would have a toolbox to work on your car, we give you a toolbox of emotional strategies to work on your marriage. These are also very playful and effective tools that you can implement right away. Holistic therapy helps you see yourself, your partner, and your marriage as a whole.
How can holistic couples therapy support you after traditional therapy has failed?
We don’t break down your self-esteem, but instead help you find ways to build up your self-esteem and your partner’s.
We use Gottman marriage counseling along with holistic therapy is to help you build a relationship that you deserve.
As marriage and family therapists, we practice in an affirming, inclusive, ethical, and competent way. We are trained and educated to support lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, and asexual (LGBTQIA) people of all ages. At Wisdom Within Counseling, we are non-binary, queer, transgender, kink and bigender affirming.
There are many essential tools at holistic marital counseling can teach you to help you build a foundation for a long lasting loving marriage.
We work with couples who are new in marriage, as well as unmarried couples that have a high level of commitment to each other. In addition, we specialize in post affair recovery. So, if there has been infidelity or cheating, we can help. We also talk with couples who might be considering separation or divorce, to see if they might want to rebuild, or the areas where they feel gridlocked on conflict.
Sometimes, couples who are empty-nesters go through a midlife crisis and need help rebuilding a sense of identity together. After your children have moved off to college, you might notice there is a lack of affection or sense of disappointment.
Our team can help with holistic therapy, and rebuilding love and support in your marriage.
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