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Your Relationship is Valuable, Make it Your Priority With Couples Counseling...
With hectic schedules and daily responsibilities, couples often find themselves not having as much time as they would like to focus on their relationship. Over time, when partners neglect the relationship, they slowly drift apart. This may lead them to lose sight of previously shared goals, dreams, and aspirations. Keeping your relationship a priority can be especially tricky during times of stress or major life transitions such as having a child or taking care of an elderly parent.
It may feel like your relationship changed overnight, but most often it takes days, weeks, and years to become disconnected from one another. Relationships are not easy. Every relationship goes through ups and downs throughout the course of life. However, when a couple stops working on their relationship, the relationship stops working! Lasting, healthy relationships take hard work and commitment from both partners.
Dealing with Mental Health Challenges Can
Affect Your Relationship
Due to the intertwined and recursive nature of relationships, when one partner struggles with something such as depression, anxiety, grief/loss, trauma, work-related stress, or professional burnout, it undeniably affects their partner. If a person’s relationship with themselves, others, and/or their profession isn’t in a good place, it will eventually affect their quality of life and their relationships. In order to experience connectivity and intimacy with your partner, you also need to have a healthy and harmonious relationship with yourself.
Couples seek couples therapy, marriage counseling, or pre-marital counseling for many different reasons. The length of marriage counseling and couples therapy depends on the context and severity of the presenting problems. Additionally, it depends on the couple’s strengths and resources.
Although some couples wait until they are in crisis or “on the brink”, couples can benefit from the therapeutic process at any stage in their relationship. We have experience working with couples of all ages as well as diverse cultural, familial, and religious backgrounds. Couples therapy includes pre-marital counseling, marital counseling, and counseling for cisgender couples as well as LGBTQ+ couples counseling.
What is Marriage Counseling & Couples Counseling?
How Couples Therapy Can Help Your Relationship...
Couples face challenges from communication breakdowns, work-related stress, complex in-law relationships, parenting issues, pre-marital counseling, infertility, or reproductive challenges. While others question whether they have fallen out of love with one another. Whether you or your partner feels unhappy in the relationship or are unsure about the level of commitment to the relationship, marriage counseling and couples therapy in Coral Springs, FL, Fort Lauderdale, Fl, and Plantation, FL can help you reveal and interrupt the repetitive patterns that keep you stuck. Our couples therapists seek to identify unresolved or underlying issues that contribute to the reoccurring problems.
Couples also seek therapy for problems related to mistrust, betrayal, or physical/emotional infidelity. Once trust is broken in a relationship, it is difficult to repair, but not impossible. When couples are in tune with one another and follow through with their commitments, trust can be rebuilt over time. Trust is an action, not a state of mind.
Our team is unique in offering many options for finding a couples therapist who will be the best fit for your needs and goals. We have several relationship experts who are specialized in couples therapy, marriage counseling, and pre-marital counseling; offer different scheduling options (flexible hours, evenings, and weekends); and offer different price points to better serve our South Florida community.
Each couples therapist on our team has specialized training and offers a unique approach to working with couples. We would be happy to connect you with an expert couples therapist who will be the best fit for your needs. Call our office today at 954-391-5305 to discuss your options and connect with your today! We offer sessions in person at our Coral Springs and Fort Lauderdale offices and we provide online couples therapy across the state of Florida.
Watch the video below if you want to know more about what to expect in couples counseling as our Founder and CEO - Dr. Kate Campbell, LMFT - founder of Bayview Therapy explains how marriage counseling and couples therapy in Coral Springs, FL, Fort Lauderdale, FL, and Plantation, FL works.
What to Expect During
Couples Therapy & Marriage Counseling
Couples Therapy Can Increase Your Intimacy
& Enhance Communication
Effective communication and conflict management are key for any happy and healthy couples. As a couples therapist, we support each partner in refining their own style of communication. Marriage counseling and couples therapy in Fort Lauderdale, Coral Springs, FL, & Plantation, FL helps partners to listen and respond more effectively within every day life. As well as during times of difficulty.
Conflict is natural and healthy for relationships as long as it is managed effectively. Our role is to facilitate a safe and balanced dialogue between partners to illuminate various strengths, resources, past successes, and solution building attempts both individually and relationally.
We help couples facilitate positive change and growth though using brief and effective strategies. Because we can’t go back and change the past, we tend to focus more on helping couples create the changes they desire in the present while nurturing hopes for their future.
Marriage counseling and couples therapy can enable partners to experience more enjoyment, connectivity, and satisfaction in their relationship again. In order to sustain a lasting, intimate connection with one another, couples must prioritize their relationship. Plus they need to feel a fondness and admiration for one another; effectively manage conflict; continuously nurture their friendship; and be willing to accept influence from one another.
In situations where couples aren’t able to forgive certain betrayals, find mutual respect for one another, or reconnect on their life paths, we also support them in the difficult process of bringing their relationship to an end. If you believe that we can help you in your relationship, get in touch with us.
Our expert relationship therapists are specifically trained in Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy (EFT), Gottman Method Couples Therapy, Solution Focused Therapy, and Family Systems Theories to help partners address their communication skills, interactional patterns, intimacy, and emotions. Call 954-391-5305 to speak with our client care coordinator and connect with a therapist who will be a great fit for you today!
Begin Marriage Counseling & Couples Therapy
in Fort Lauderdale, Coral Springs, & Plantation, FL
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If you are ready to begin marriage counseling and couples therapy, our EFT and Gottman-trained therapists and psychologists would be honored to speak with you to discuss deepening your connection, communication, help you resolve any issues you may be experiencing in your relationship. Follow these steps to begin counseling in Fort Lauderdale, FL, Coral Springs and Parkland, FL, and Plantation, FL today:
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Contact our counseling center and speak with our care coordinator.
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Participate in a free consultation call with a couples therapist to learn more about them and how they can help you reach your individual and relational goals.
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Begin marriage counseling and couples therapy to begin feeling more fulfilled in your relationship today.
Relationships are part of our everyday life. Learning how to connect and communicate in a way that enhances the relationship matters. Contact Bayview Therapy to see how we can help.
Additional Counseling Services at Our Coral Springs, Fort Lauderdale, & Plantation, FL Offices
You deserve a space to feel heard and understood in couples therapy or marriage counseling. Couples therapy includes pre-marital counseling, marital counseling, and counseling for cisgender couples as well as LGBTQ+ couples counseling.
In our Fort Lauderdale, Coral Springs, and Plantation, FL offices we provide a wide variety of couples therapy services to help you enhance your relationship. If you're struggling with your relationship, then get in touch with us today so we can help you, your partner, and your family.
Our team of expert counselors and psychologists at Bayview Therapy specialize in different areas. We offer a wide range of counseling and psychological services to support our Fort Lauderdale, Boca Raton, Plantation, Southwest Ranches, Davie, Weston, Coral Springs, Coconut Creek, and Parkland communities.
We provide therapy and psychological evaluations for children, teens, adults, couples, and families dealing with a wide variety of life's challenges across the lifespan. Some of our specialties include depression counseling; trauma therapy and EMDR therapy; teen counseling; child and family counseling; couples counseling or marriage therapy; psychiatric medication management; and more.
We also provide online counseling options for those who reside in the state of Florida using our secure HIPAA compliant telehealth platform.
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