Boston Marital Therapy

Couples often seek therapy when they find themselves stuck in patterns of conflict, disconnection, or misunderstanding that they can’t resolve on their own. Common concerns include lack of healthy communication skills, recurring arguments, emotional distance, stress related to life transitions, or a betrayal in trust. Some couples come to do preventative work and others to tackle long standing issues. Often, couples come to therapy during periods of high stress—such as when they are having parenting challenges, a critical event that led to a rupture, after an affair is discovered, when roles/expectations shift, or when one or both are considering divorce.

Even if couples do extensive amounts of reading, podcast listening, personal therapy, and try to improve the relationship on their own, they may still struggle to make meaningful shifts due to how difficult it is to change long standing patterns, triggers, automatic reactions, and communication without external help. In the context of the therapeutic space, a well trained couples therapist is able to attune to both partners, understand and quickly assess the dynamics at play, and guide couples to regulate their reactions and respond differently to one another in real time.