Is your relationship not where you want it to be? Walking on eggshells around your spouse?
Does it feel like you are trying too hard to make things work in your marriage?
Are you and your spouse not feeling romantic towards each other anymore and wondering how to rebuild your sex life?
Did you find your spouse having an affair or cheating?
Is your spouse an alcoholic or narcissist, and you want to learn to set healthy boundaries?
Have you been wanting to rebuild a stronger foundation after painful arguments and create long-lasting love and romance?
Affair, infidelity, and betrayal recovery
If there has been cheating, infidelity, and betrayal in your relationship, the team at Wisdom Within Counseling can help. Couples often choose to work through the root cause of infidelity and heal after an affair together. At times, an affair allows for more open, vulnerable communication than ever before.
When you and your spouse work with a therapist who understand trauma responses and PTSD symptoms, re-bonding can occur.
The spouse who was cheated on often develops PTSD or trauma symptoms. These can include high levels of anxiety, a long-term sense of suspicion, fear, trouble sleeping, and even anger and rage issues.
To note, trauma and PTSD symptoms can also be compounded from childhood trauma, loss, and betrayal from parental figure. When a romantic partner cheats, trust issues develop.
If a partner who was cheated on had a parent who lied to them, the heartbreak can be more complex. A partner with PTSD may be in shock, have appetite changes, mood swings, and feel emotional.
To begin, click the button below to book a phone consult for PTSD coping tools and skills for rebuilding trust by working with the Stonington, Connecticut couples therapists at Wisdom Within.
Couples counseling in New London County in Connecticut can help partners rebuild broken trust.
Learning to confide in one another is a key skill for building meaningful connection. Before and during an affair, partners stop confiding in one another. A person confides emotionally and physically in their affair partner. So, couples counseling is about rebuilding that bond and a whole new way of relating to one another.
Your marriage counselor can guide you in understanding why an emotional or physical affair took place to begin with.
Sometimes, a partner feel alone, rejected, pushed aside, unimportant, or not desired. A person who gets cheated on may doubt themselves, feel devastated, feel insecure, or experience jealousy emotions.
Couples therapy sessions can support skills for closeness, intimacy, and a satisfying sex life. All it takes is two people to have a strong desire to work on their relationship together and marraige.
The Wisdom Within Counseling Stonington, Connecticut couples therapists support couples in building trust, acceptance, forgiveness, a satisfying sex life, and a new, healthier relationship.
Commonly, affairs are just the tip of the iceberg. So, an affair is one layer of pain and loss. And, going deeper into the other layers of their relationship helps figure out the root issues. An affair is a symptom of a much large relationship issue.
The Stonington Connecticut couples therapists at Wisdom Within Counseling helps couples talk about the issues they have been avoiding.
Couples counseling at Wisdom Within offers couples insight, awareness, and hope for a new future together.
When couples experience affairs, infidelity, cheating, and dishonesty, a new marriage must be formed.
So, marriage number one is over and a whole new marriage would need to be formed. The old marriage needs to be grieved and mourned in the same way a death would be acknowledged.
There is loss that goes along with finding out about an affair. Feeling betrayed is heartbreaking.
The Stonington Connecticut couples therapists at Wisdom Within Counseling helps couples become emotionally vulnerable, thus emotional secure together.
To begin, click the button below to book a phone consult for a secure bond by working with the Stonington, Connecticut couples therapists at Wisdom Within.
Stonington, Connecticut couples therapists help after sexual issues have developed
Long-term couples may face a variety of sexual challenges. In the beginning of a relationship, sexual energy is easy to exchange. Over time, sex can feel like an obligation if you are try to have a baby.
Sex can also be painful due to lack of vaginal wetness and lack of foreplay. Learning to build up the foreplay and sexual passion in your relationship can be a part of marriage counseling.
Creating sexual desire is a benefit of couples counseling session. You may learn things about your romantic partner you never knew they liked or didn’t like.
Your couples therapist can help you both communicate sexual needs and sexual fantasies. As well, you can talk about sexual desires for trying BDSM, different sex toys, or power play scenes.
At Wisdom Within Counseling near Stonington, Connecticut, you get a safe place to talk about bettering your sex life.
There are not many places couples feel safe talking about sex. You can’t talk about it with your parents or friends, so couples therapy can be that safe environment. and women may need help having a voice when it comes to sexual needs.
Over time, it may feel like you suffer from low desire issues where you don’t feel in the mood much at all anymore. Your couples therapist in Stonington, Connecticut can help pinpoint where these issues are coming from and support a treatment plan for them.
Stonington Connecticut couples therapists are located near Lords Point, Wequetequock, Mystic, Mystic Seaport, East Lyme, Ledyard, Preston, Old Lyme, Waterford, Clarks Village, Norwich, West Mystic, New London, Groton, and near Watch Hill, Westerly, Ashway, Avondale, Charlestown, Hopkinton, Rhode Island.
To begin, click the button below to book a phone consult for a safe place to talk about sex and intimacy by working with the Stonington, Connecticut couples therapists at Wisdom Within.
Life adjustments and new responsibilities can tear couples apart
Changes in responsibilities can pull couples apart and cause conflict over time. For instance, trying and trying to get pregnant and put pressure on sexual pleasure and intimacy.
Buying a home that needs renovations can be stressful and cause conflict.
Or, getting a new puppy can be overwhelming and create tension. There are many ups and downs couples face long term. Even as exciting as a new job can be, changing jobs can be stressful. Learning and adjusting to the new work environment can make it harder to have fun with your partner.
Additionally, moving in together for the first time can be an adjustment and lead to conflicts.
You don’t have to be married to start bettering your relationship through couples therapy.
At Wisdom Within Counseling, we help couples who want to learn how to love each other more effectively and more deeply.
Typically, before getting into marriage counseling, couples are living disengaged, distant, and disconnected lives. If you feel like two ships passing in the night, couples therapy can help you make each other matter again. You deserve to feel passion, sexy, loved and desired. Essentially, marriage counseling can help you bring the spice, passion, and emotional security back into your relationship.
When couples come into counseling, they are often needing help understanding how to get emotionally on the same page and closer.
Emotional tension can prevent physical closeness. Fights and arguments can make it difficult to physically get in a sexy mood. Couples therapy at Wisdom Within Counseling supports allocated time for sex as well as emotional bonding.
The more distant emotionally couples get, the more physically distant they also get.
Part of marriage therapy in New London County Connecticut is regaining emotional bonding and emotional closeness. You should not get used to sleeping in separate beds.
Cuddling together at night and each morning can be one of the best things to bond together. Whether you have been together for one year or twenty years, the team of Stonington, Connecticut couples therapists can help repair emotional closeness.
To begin, click the button below to book a phone consult for more meaningful connection and a happier sex life by working with the Stonington, Connecticut couples therapists at Wisdom Within.
Lacking communication skills can set couples up for failure.
These responsibilities put stress on couples in many ways. You can talk about adjustments such as bringing a new baby home in couples counseling. At times, without healthy communication skills, couples can argue and get in conflicts. Working with a therapist at Wisdom Within Counseling near Mystic, Connecticut can support connection.
How do couples stay together through times of adjustment and turmoil? They focus on one another daily, minute by minute. Couples therapists support tools and skills that we don’t learn elsewhere. And, therapy can support couples in learning skills for emotional validation and empathy.
Empathy is essential in bonding, trust, and meaningful connection and for a happy marriage.
Are you feeling rejected due to a lack of empathy in your relationship?
When there is a lack of empathy in your relationship, you may feel unheard and emotionally rejected.
As well, without empathy, a relationship will become empty, sad, and lonely. It might feel like you and your spouse are two ships passing in the night. Some days, you both work so much that you don’t get to see each other.
The Wisdom Within Counseling Stonington, Connecticut couples therapists teach playfulness and intimacy skills
In addition to talk therapy, couples can use art, painting, yoga, and meditation skills.
These foster skills for reducing anger and staying calm outside of counseling.
Yoga for couples can include relaxation exercise. Just like going to the gym to train your body, going to couples therapy support emotional wellness. As well, holistic therapies offer couples tools to use outside of the therapy session.
Yoga can help couples nurture one another and create emotional connection too.
Walk and talk therapies when working with a Stonington, Connecticut couples therapist at Wisdom Within Counseling
Going for a walking session by the beach can be an alternative to a sitting talk therapy session. Movement therapies can support couples in learning skills for emotional regulation.
To begin, click the button below to book a phone consult for skills to stay calm in the toughest moment by working with the Stonington, Connecticut couples therapists at Wisdom Within.
To specify the need to start sooner than later, couples wait until there’s a relationship crisis to start seeing a marital counselor. Unfortunately, many couples wait until they are on the brink of divorce, yelling, and sleeping in separate beds.
Even if you are in that difficult place of emotional distance, starting therapy sooner than later will help it from getting worse. Couples counseling in Connecticut helps support skills for long-lasting love, a healthy sex life, and conflict resolution skills.
Is anger an issue in your relationship?
Well, holistic therapies can support a calmer nervous system. In a way, art, creative, and holistic therapies help couples in calming themselves down outside of session.
These holistic marriage therapies, in addition to talking, can be emotional outlets.
Wisdom Within Counseling near Westerly and Watch Hill, Rhode Island, is an LGBTQIA+, queer, transgender, and same sex couple affirming therapy group. We help couples who are navigating the coming out process. If you or your spouse is queer, non-binary, transgender, bi-gender, gender questioning, we can be a safe place.
Talking about sexual orientation and sexual expression are important parts of couples counseling.
Furthermore, Wisdom Within Counseling is a kink affirming and friendly therapy practice. So, it is common for one or both people in a romantic relationship to have some type of kink. There may be sexual shame around verbalizing a specific turn on or kink. Some people have a praise kink where they like being complimented or told they are doing a good job. Kinks can vary person to person.
If you have a kink, sharing it with your romantic partner can come with fears of rejection or shame.
You may fear sharing this part of yourself with them out of not knowing their reaction. You may want to talk to your partner about integrating new sex toys, lubricants, anal plugs, anal sex, role play, bed restraints, nipple clams, power play dynamics, or other sexy toys. Trying new things sexually can be a wonderful part of a satisfying, healthy marriage and relationship. However, it can be hard when one person hold back out of fear of rejection.
Mind-body therapies can be alternative to talking in therapy when couples need a language beyond words.
When words feel incomplete or not enough, painting can be a form of communication. In addition to talking about your love languages, you can use musical instruments to express yourself.
Learning to connect by breathing can be very powerful for couples to do together. These mind-body therapies promote centeredness and self-acceptance. We are Gottman marital therapy level two trained to support couples after infidelity, betrayal, loss, and trauma. The team at Wisdom Within Counseling are a group of couples therapists near Mystic, CT.
