Are you sleeping in separate beds, avoiding each other, and walking on eggshells? In your marriage, do you or your spouse have insecurities, jealousy, or anxiety? Has there been infidelity or cheating in the past? Would you like support talking about intense issues like parenting, finances, or money? Many times, we also help couples change up the division of labor and their gender roles. Maybe, one of you is struggling with alcoholism or addiction and this impacts your marriage. Holistic marriage counseling in Ridgefield, Connecticut offers creativity to tackle your marriage issues. There are many great reasons why people say couples therapy and there are solutions to help.
As well, couples therapy and relationship counseling can help you overcome cheating, unfaithfulness and infidelity.
In addition, you can you get education and professional guidance on relationship connection tools after trust was broken. When couples experience emotional distance, it doesn’t happen overnight. Frequently, we help couples who feel like they are on edge around each other, learn positive ways to connect. As well, if you feel a sense of emotional disconnection, you may have started turning to someone or something outside of your marriage as a coping strategy. Marriage therapist helps you keep your head in the game. To add, couples therapy helps you build a tool box of skills to combat temptation and taking the easy way out. Overall, holistic marriage counseling in Ridgefield, Connecticut can support turning towards your spouse.
What happens when couples experience distance and emotional disconnection?
As well, people often find them selves coping in negative ways. For example, you might have found yourself drinking a little too much alcohol or confiding in someone outside of your marriage.
Did you found your spouse confiding in someone outside of your marriage and emotionally cheating on you?
Many times, when couples find themselves sleeping in separate beds, avoiding each other, and walking on eggshells, this has happened over many months. Emotional disconnection and feeling unloved plays a role in sex and intimacy. In couples counseling, we teach you that the start of sex therapy is building emotional security and trust. And, if you are from a broken home or had a traumatic childhood, now is the time to learn these skills. If there is no trust or security in your relationship, it’s going to be very hard to open up, or ask your partner to open up. Couples therapy supports intense, but intimate conversations you may be avoiding. So, holistic marriage counseling in Ridgefield, Connecticut can help you build positive security and emotional closeness.
Ridgefield, CT Sex Therapy
In Ridgefield, Connecticut, couples start marital counseling because they are on unsatisfied with the sexual passion. Maybe, you used to have a great sex life, but now, after having children, there is a sense of distance. And, you want a sex therapist to help you build sexual confidence. Maybe, you have questions about how your body works or your partner’s anatomy. It can feel awkward talking about your sex life at first. But, our couples therapists are sex positive. So, you can have a safe place to talk about foreplay and sex in holistic marriage counseling in Ridgefield, Connecticut. If you desire more touching physical connection, but you are a afraid to navigate this, couples therapy can help.
Trauma Recovery in Ridgefield, Connecticut Marriage Counseling
As well, we help couples who still have lingering anxiety and fears around feeling closer due to prior trust issues. For example, you may have been in a relationship in the past where your trust was broken. Now, the shadow of that past relationship is preventing playfulness in your current relationship. And, you want to give your best self to this new relationship. Therefore, the end of your last relationship can be talked about in marriage counseling. In addition, your previous relationship may be influencing anxiety you are feeling in your marriage today.
How does childhood trauma play a role in holistic marriage counseling in Ridgefield, Connecticut?
In addition, if your parents got divorced or had a marriage problems, this can play a role in your current relationship as well. In addition, if your parents were unfaithful or had marriage conflicts, these fears and anxieties play a role in your marriage today. Many times, couples don’t understand how their childhood traumas and abandonment issues play a role in their marriage today.
Frequently, we help couples start to talk about complex trauma and anxiety rooted in childhood.
Overall, holistic marriage counseling in Ridgefield, Connecticut supports trauma recovery. In time, your therapist can teach you about your parasympathetic nervous system. And, you can learn about relaxing through trauma triggers and responses.
In addition, we specialize with couples who have a trauma history and complex PTSD.
What is complex PTSD? Well, let’s say that you grew up with a parent who is an alcoholic who verbally abused you. then, in college you were sexually abused at a party. And, you got married, but now your spouse is having an emotional affair too. Then, say your brother has alcoholism and just went to rehab. Later that month, you got pregnant, but you had a miscarriage. Then, you finally had a baby, but your child was hospitalized for a life-threatening illness. And, it all feels like too much and very overwhelming. Essentially, complex trauma is trauma that compounds upon its self and creates a sense of anxiety and fear. So, if you have lots of trauma or fear relationships, you may have C-PTSD. At Wisdom Within Counseling, we specialize in complex trauma recovery in holistic marriage counseling in Ridgefield, Connecticut.
Therefore, if you have complex trauma, we can help you replace negative coping tools with positive coping tools.
And, people who have complex trauma may hurt other people hurt themselves without realizing it. So, marriage therapy can help you identify the trauma and talk about it with your spouse. Therefore, if you have complex trauma, marriage counseling can help you replace negative coping tools like yelling or shutting down. And, you can learn communication tools and positive coping tools. You can learn holistic coping strategies for trauma to turn towards your partner versus turning away.
What are examples of childhood trauma that are impacting my marriage?
In addition, if you had a parent who had an addiction issue or you identify as an adult child of an alcoholic parents, this plays a huge role in your marriage today. Essentially, holistic marital counseling can help you become a better spouse and a better parent. Essentially, holistic marriage counseling in Ridgefield, Connecticut supports self-awareness and self-love. So, by developing a healthy relationship with yourself, you can release childhood coping tools. All from connecting to your mind, body, and spirit, you can start to improve your relationship with your spouse.
Did you have a negative past counseling experience?
In addition, we help couples who had an unsuccessful marriage counseling experience in the past. So, if you feel like you’re a marriage counselor didn’t really listen to you, we specialize with couples. If you worked with a more general therapist, they may have sided with your spouse. And, you may have experience working with someone who is not especially trained to work with couples.
At Wisdom Within Counseling, we are expert trained and specialty trained to work with couples and offer relationship therapy.
In addition, you might need a sense of hopefulness that there is a way to improve your sense of connection. In couples therapy, we can help you understand how major life issues cause stress in your relationship.
How To Reduce Conflict and Build Intimacy Through Couples Therapy
Sometimes, having a best friend who has a cancer diagnosis stresses out your marriage. As well, if you recently found out your partner has been overspending your shared finances, you may rightfully develop fear, anger, anxiety, and resentment. So, if there has been an emotional affair, betrayal, or lies in your marriage, couples therapy can help change your family pattern for the better. Essentially, painful experiences can lead to intense emotions.
Instead of getting into a high conflict fight and yelling or name-calling, you can learn ways to manage your anger and positive ways.
In addition, we don’t get education in school years on how to overcome the blame game. Many times, the Wisdom Within Counseling marriage counselors help couples who get stuck in the blame game. Often, distant, fighting couples experience defensiveness, jealousy, resentment, and anger. And, we help couples who need communication tools and strategies to express challenging emotions. In addition, if you are fighting or your relationship feels emotionally distant, it doesn’t mean that your marriage has to end. There is hope if you are having the same fight over and over. Essentially, marriage counseling can give you the tools and techniques that you never learn from school or your parents.
As well, we support trans gender and gender questioning couples.
We are LGBTQIA+ affirming marriage counselors. So, we help non binary couples bridge conversations around child bearing, parenting, and adoption. In addition, marriage counseling helps spouses who are cisgender understand what is going on for their gender questioning spouse. Our marriage therapists help straight, same sex, and non-binary couples talk about sexuality. We can help you confidently expression your gender with your spouse. And, you have tools to talk about LGBTQIA+, sexual orientation, and gender expression with your children.
We are LGBTQIA+ affirming, queer, transgender affirming and support same sex couples.
In addition, we also help couples who are looking to explore nontraditional or alternative types of relationships. Relationship counseling can help you understand your love languages and love your partner better. So, if one of you wants a polyamorous relationship or to open your relationship, we can definitely talk about that in Ridgefield, Connecticut marriage therapy. It’s very important to have a couples therapist on your team, if you are looking to open your relationship. Often, there many feelings that come up. For instance, your spouse may feel jealousy, anxiety, worry, or even resentment around an open marriage. And, it can feel scary to have a boundary change. Wisdom Within Counseling would love to offer you a safe space to talk about your marriage boundaries and goals.
Without professional guidance from a marriage counselor regarding opening a relationship or opening a marriage, high conflict fights can occur.
In LGBTQIA+ queer affirming marriage counseling, you can get tools and techniques for emotional intimacy. And, you can talk about alternative types of relationships for your marriage. As well, LGBTQIA+ affirming couples therapy teaches you tools for playfulness to build security, trust, and desire.
What is LGBTQIA+ marriage counseling?
To add, teach high conflict couples communication skills, we offer options beyond just talking. And, positive coping tools for emotional confidence for couples can be holistic. For fighting couples looking for playfulness, our marriage counselors in Ridgefield, Connecticut offer options in addition to sitting and traditional talking. So, to go beyond words and build trust, you can do coupes yoga or art.
For one, you can use a language beyond words when you don’t want to talk by molding clay, doing art and painting.
As well, you can relax, build anxiety coping tools and be creative. In marriage counseling, you can connect emotionally with painting, art, yoga, meditation, music and outdoor walking therapies by the beach. In addition, our team offers in person and video openings. Wisdom Within Counseling offers a, holistic, creative, relationship building approach to helping families thrive. Lastly, learn to rekindle desire, manage conflict, and heal after betrayal from working with a Ridgefield, CT marriage therapist today.
So, Wisdom Within Counseling has a therapy office along the Southeastern Shoreline. However, Wisdom Within Counseling offers holistic marriage and family therapy over video too. We help fighting couples build communication and trust online in Connecticut towns of Greenwich, Darien, Mystic, Old Saybrook, New Canaan, Fairfield, Ridgefield, Litchfield, Tolland, Westport, Avon, Wilton, Weston, Brookfield, Glastonbury, and Redding.
