Why do couples start in Gottman counseling?
This blog is all about couples! If you’re distressed in your relationship or having arguments where yelling, our team can help you. The team of therapists at Wisdom Within Counseling help couples share intense emotions in calm ways. Marriage counseling on the Space Coast of Florida supports calm communication, healthy sex life positive, and healing after trust wounds and trauma.
To start, book your free phone consultation for marriage counseling on the Space Coast of Florida using the button below.
Couples counseling promotes sharing anger, loss, rejection, and jealousy in positive, calm ways
Often, couples let high emotions like anger get the best of them. Fighting and conflict are great reasons to see a Gottman couples therapist in Orlando, Florida. You may have issues where you don’t feel important or you feel ignored.
Perhaps, you might feel put down or criticized by your spouse. So, couples counseling can help you get a sense of respect and equality. Healthy couples express intense emotions in calm ways.
Therefore, improving communication skills in your relationship supports closeness. Your marriage therapist can figure out where some of those negative communication styles are coming from too.
Communication can quickly turn from negative to positive with a few skills from your couples therapist on the Space Coast of Florida.
Positive communication includes, “I” statements. For example, “I feel, I want, I need, and I wish” are key. Replace any negative communication that are, “You” statements with “I.” Don’t begin by saying, “You hurt me, you make me angry, you don’t meet my sexual needs…”
These are negative and can cause someone to feel blamed. Focus on taking ownership of your emotions and feelings. Share how you feel rather than judging your spouse. Working on unhealthy communication in couples counseling in Melbourne, Florida is healing.
Couples can start to own their emotional experience. By owning emotions, a person can more clearly ask for a need to be met.
Couples therapy supports healthy communication.
Healthy communication and deep connection correspond to body language. Also, building a loving marriage means showing excitement. You can learn to create an emotional and intimate exchange to build desire.
Wisdom Within Counseling gives distant couples an opportunity to build playfulness and passion. You can rebuild passion, reignite desire, improve emotional validation and intimacy.
To start, book your free phone consultation for marriage counseling on the Space Coast of Florida using the button below.
Start to build desire, mystery, hope, security and meaningful connection today in marriage counseling on the Space Coast of Florida.
Challenges with sexual performance are great reasons to come in for marriage counseling on the Space Coast of Florida.
Also, we help couples who might be struggling with sex drive differences. You or your spouse may experience differences in your sex drives that leads to sexual frustration or rejection.
Couples counseling can give you confidence to deal with sexual challenges. To note, sexual dysfunctions can lead to rejection and anxiety around sexual performance.
Healing after trust wounds is possible for couples
Finding your partner cheating is heartbreaking. Your body goes through fight, flight, and freeze responses. Discovering this sad news can lead to anger, flashbacks, anxiety, self-doubt, hurt, and concentration issues. The person who was cheated on may begin worrying and wondering where their partner is. As well, you’re feeling skeptical and you’re worried about their whereabouts. It is normal to wonder if your spouse is being honest with you after cheating. Realizing your partner has been keeping an intense secret of an affair creates a deep betrayal. To note, Gottman marriage therapists specialize in helping couples heal trust wounds.
We help couples who have been having an affair or keeping a secret heal together after loss and betrayal.
Our team helps couples gain affair prevention skills for meaningful connection.
After finding out about an affair, it is normal to not be able to trust your partner anymore. In affairs recovery counseling, emotional cheating and pornography addiction can lead to betrayal. Emotional and physical cheating create betrayal and trust wounds. Trust issues or a history of cheating are great reasons to reach out for Melbourne, Florida marriage counseling.
What is childhood trauma and why does it matter for a healthy relationship or marriage?
Another element to communication is a trauma cycle. So, if you grew up in a home where you were raised by alcoholics, you experienced childhood trauma.
Or, if your parents were emotionally unstable or emotionally abusive, that is trauma. If you grew up around yelling, that can lead to trauma symptoms. Having a parent with mental health challenges can cause childhood trauma.
You may have also had experiences of unwanted touch, sexual abuse, rape and sexual trauma. Maybe, you had a parent that had a drug problem, or had a mental health issue.
A parent or care giver showed you anger issues, or just exploded. Maybe, you parents even had bipolar or were hospitalized for depression.
Marriage counseling on the Space Coast of Florida helps couples understand the impact of childhood trauma.
To start, book your free phone consultation for marriage counseling on the Space Coast of Florida using the button below.
Healing from childhood trauma in your marriage counseling experience
Trauma symptoms can make a huge impact in how we work and how we resolve conflict. To note, trauma experiences lead to PTSD and trauma symptoms. Unfortunately, these trauma symptoms cause us to negatively communicate in romantic relationships and adulthood.
So, trauma symptoms can play a huge role in how you are communicating. working with a marriage counseling on the Space Coast of Florida who specializes in complex trauma can really help. You can learn tools to shift into present moment thinking, body awareness, gain body respect.
Marriage counseling on the Space Coast of Florida supports trauma recovery
Trauma leaves children and adults low in self-esteem.
Therefore, couples counseling tools can help improve your self-worth and communicate when you feel safe. You can learn to talk about what you need to have a safe marriage and a safe sexual experience.
And, talking about safe sexual pleasure and consent can be a part of marriage counseling on the Space Coast of Florida.
If you’re looking for couples counseling on the Space Coast of Florida, our team would love to help you holistically.
Katie Ziskind is a licensed marriage and family therapist and a Gottman level two marriage therapist.
At Wisdom Within Counseling, Katie Ziskind and her team work with couples using yoga therapy for complex trauma. Somatic, holistic, creative, mind body therapies like art, painting, creative meditations and visualizations are healing.
As well, positive affirmations, yoga and outdoor walking sessions help couples improve mind-body connection.
Mind-body connection then supports trauma recovery and less anger in your relationship.
Online and in person in Niantic, we help couples, children and teenagers in neighboring towns.
We help couples in Bozrah, Waterford, Old Lyme, Ivoryton, Centerbrook, Westbrook, Essex, East Lyme, Shelton, South Windsor, Granby, Franklin, Griswold, Groton, Ledyard, Lisbon, Montville, Bristol, Stratford, Glastonbury, Colchester, East Haddam, Hadlyme, Hamburg, Enfield, Old Saybrook, Westport, Ridgefield, and Madison. In farther away towns, we offer video counseling in Connecticut to Portland, Berlin, Bethany, Bethel, Bethlehem, Bloomfield, East Hampton, Haddam, Litchfield, Simsbury, Fairfield, Cobalt, Cromwell, Avon, Rocky Hill, West Hartford, Clinton, Wethersfield, Middlebury, Waterbury, Guilford, Chester, Deep River, Moodus, Durham, and Middletown.
Why does Wisdom Within Counseling offers you somatic, out of the box, holistic, creative therapies?
We offer somatic, mind-body, creative alternatives to help couples rebuild play again. These holistic, mind-body, and creative therapies support fun and adventure in your relationship. We offer video and in person sessions. So, our office is in Connecticut.
However, if you’re located in Florida, we meet with you on video to help you build a more passionate, better relationship.
The team at Wisdom Within Counseling would love to help you build a meaningful connection and a playful marriage.
