Couples Therapy

Couples therapy often allows partners to work through troubles and rebuild the relationship. Today, we’re going to explore the importance of couples therapy and how it can help save your marriage.

There comes a point in every relationship when things start to feel stagnant and problems arise. These issues can range from small arguments to more significant hardships such as infidelity, divorce, and death. Many couples feel lost, hopeless and unsure of how to fix the damage that has been done. However, couples therapy is an effective way to tackle relationship issues that have gone beyond communication. Couples therapy often allows partners to work through troubles and rebuild the relationship. We believe couples therapy can help save your marriage.

What is Couple Therapy?

If couples therapy is effective, a couple, with a therapist, will come to understand how they consciously and unconsciously perceive life situations and understand the reason behind their automatic reactions. They can then consciously evaluate whether those unconscious viewpoints and automatic reactions are fair and acceptable to both individuals in the relationship. This creates a foundation where the couple can grow together and create a stronger and more fulfilling relationship.

Couples Therapy at Dynamic Psychiatry

Couples Therapy and an Unbiased 3rd Party

In order for couples therapy to be effective, the therapist must be an unbiased third party. This allows the therapist to see past the emotions of a situation and facilitate constructive communication. Constructive communication and an understanding of each other’s perspectives (both conscious and unconscious), lays the groundwork of forgiveness, compromise and a happy relationship for anyone who is willing to “do the work”.

Benefits of Couples Therapy

When a couple becomes aware of their unconscious and conscious perspectives, they:

Couples Therapy Benefits Children

Children benefit too. Children who grow up in an environment with parents who are able to see the full perspective and tolerate compromise, have better long term mental health, enjoy academic success, and generally realize fulfilling long-term relationships. While more difficult, effective couples therapy generally benefits multiple generations within a family tree.

Couples Therapy Reduces Divorce Rate

It is also worth noting that divorce is relatively rare when a couple has two individuals who are willing to work and compromise. But when divorce is still a part of the couple’s reality, couples therapy can reduce the devastating effects of divorce for the divorcing individuals and the family. It also helps the divorced individuals to identify their own part that contributed to the divorce so that they can prevent this same issue from creating future relationship failures.

While a relationship may seem to be beyond repair, this is often not accurate. Those who engage in couples therapy as early as possible can identify and address the underlying issues. This vital intervention can equip a couple with the necessary skills to overcome their troubles and build a foundation that reignites the passion and emotional connection for a healthy relationship.

Seeking therapy can be intimidating, but it is a crucial step in becoming individuals capable of forming healthy and rewarding relationships. Remember, every relationship has its unique issues, and it requires discomfort, work and commitment to succeed.

In conclusion, effective couples therapy will be uncomfortable, and hard but can give you the ability to overcome relationship issues. This includes death, divorce, infidelity and many other problems. By allowing a neutral third party to guide them, a couple can gain an understanding of how their individual views and reactions are affecting the relationship. That knowledge empowers them to have greater mutual understanding, and a foundation to rebuild and strengthen their relationships.

Take the first step and schedule an appointment with a couples therapist today.

Important things to know

Questions and Answers

Will your insurance pay for Couples Therapy?

Insurance is not typically required to cover couples therapy and most couples pay “out of pocket” for their sessions. Here is why…

Under the Affordable Care Act, the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act, and other federal laws, insurers must provide equitable coverage for mental health conditions. This means they must treat mental health conditions like physical health conditions, must not exclude them from coverage, and must not charge higher co-pays for these conditions.

Insurance equity laws don’t usually apply to couples therapy because it isn’t seen as a physical health issue like depression, anxiety, addiction or PTSD. Thus, most insurance plans don’t pay for couples therapy because they are not required to do so. Even when some have it as a listed benefit, it is our experience that insurance companies will generally deny the claims by using various reasons or will pay less than a practice’s “break even” rate.

Thus, to engage in couples therapy with our provider’s, patients must prepay for their session using a credit card. We do offer a “superbill” that you can submit to your insurance and request reimbursement. (Patients have had mixed results with their insurance company). Prepaid rates are available upon request.

Who offers Couples Therapy?

We have multiple providers who offer couples therapy. Each therapist has a limited number of couples therapy slots available. You can get connected by calling the front desk who will identify which providers have availability.

Many people recognize that Dr Watson is a nationally acclaimed psychiatrist and psychotherapy provider and we get many calls requesting his direct services. Please be aware that Dr Watson does accept couples for therapy but that there are limited slots available and he has a waitlist for future openings. However, we have various other couples therapists who receive training from Dr Watson and they have many more slots available. Therefore, you have the option of being placed on Dr Watson’s waitlist or seeking care sooner by a therapist who is receiving ongoing training by Dr Watson.

Do you recommend Couples Therapy before marriage?

Yes. Couples counseling is often most beneficial even before the marriage happens. This allows the soon to be newlyweds to learn how to identify and resolve small disagreements before they have a chance to form into marital fractures.

How To Get Started

Call Us at 801-349-2480

We are here to answer all your questions. Call us and we will direct you to our convenient new patient portal where you can choose the right provider based on your needs and insurance and set up your own appointment.