Marriage Counseling
Marriage Counseling in Arizona - Expert Help for Your Relationship
Marriage Counseling
Take a moment to consider your marriage. How are you doing?
If you’re seeking marriage counseling, you’ve come to the right place. Arguments, yelling, and complaining may have become more common than you’d like. Perhaps you’re facing an overwhelming crisis such as infidelity or talk of divorce. You might feel disconnected from your spouse.
Maybe you’ve stopped having sex or find intimacy difficult. Alternatively, you no longer seem to have time for one another. Perhaps a stressor such as parenting, illness, or financial difficulty impacts your marriage.
Understanding Marriage Problems and Relationship Challenges
Marriage problems like these quickly become all-consuming. Furthermore, marriage represents one of life’s most intimate relationships. Consequently, marital problems often feel devastating, overwhelming, and impossible to overcome.
Relationships can be the hardest thing we do. We feel naturally drawn to our partner. Moreover, our greatest need is knowing we are special. We want reassurance that we matter. Additionally, we need to receive comfort and love from our partner.
However, you may feel afraid your marriage heads down a path from which you can’t recover. You’ve been walking on eggshells with each other. Additionally, the love and closeness that brought you together seems lost. You’ve tried to understand each other. Nevertheless, even those discussions get sidetracked into arguing patterns. Fortunately, we can help.
We Offer Evidence-Based Marriage Counseling Practices
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The right type of help makes an important difference. At Prescott Relationship Center, we provide skilled therapy with extensive training. Specifically, we help relationships in the most effective way. We use methods that research shows have the highest success rate.
Evidence-Based Marriage Counseling Practices We Use
Our counseling methods provide the marriage help you and your spouse need. Furthermore, we dedicate ourselves to using evidence-based counseling practices. This means decades of research studies have proven our counseling type effectively helps struggling couples.
Emotionally Focused Therapy Specialization
In particular, our practice uses Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) in our marriage counseling sessions. EFT represents a short-term therapy model. Additionally, couples who stay focused and motivated often experience significant improvements. Typically, this happens after only 8-10 sessions.
EFT finds the root of what troubles your marriage. Subsequently, we discover ways to emotionally bond with your spouse. We focus on helping you identify conflict cycles within your marriage. Moreover, we help you acknowledge emotions that underlie your responses. Finally, we help you find new ways of accepting each other. Therefore, you learn to meet one another’s needs effectively.
Research-Proven Results for Marriage Counseling
Emotionally Focused Therapy proves highly effective in relationship counseling. Research demonstrates that 90% of couples who receive EFT show significant improvements. Furthermore, EFT leads to increased intimacy and higher satisfaction levels. We know EFT works. Therefore, we believe it can help your marriage.
Timely Marriage Counseling Leads to Lasting Results
Many couples delay needed marriage counseling. Statistics suggest the average couple waits six years. Specifically, they wait before seeking relationship therapy from a marriage and family therapist.
Several reasons explain this delay. Sometimes one partner wants to seek help. However, the other partner resists. Other times, couples struggle to admit they need help. Alternatively, they wait and hope problems will disappear on their own. Many couples fear counseling won’t work. Consequently, they worry about wasting time, money, and emotional energy.
Our Proven Approach to Marriage Counseling
We maintain utmost confidence in our approach. We’ve witnessed firsthand the restoration that happens in marriages. Specifically, couples who dedicate weekly time to discussing their relationship see remarkable changes. Additionally, research tells us that distressed couples who complete Emotionally Focused Therapy become less distressed. Moreover, they maintain these positive results for years to come.
Communication plays a vital role in this healing process. Therefore, we often recommend practicing effective communication techniques that help couples express their needs. Additionally, understanding how to break negative relationship patterns can accelerate your healing journey.
Many couples also benefit from learning about building emotional safety in relationships. This forms the foundation for lasting change. Furthermore, our blog post on reconnecting after relationship trauma provides valuable insights. Specifically, it helps couples working through difficult experiences.
Taking the First Step
We are dedicated to helping couples transform and strengthen their relationships. We are happy to answer any questions you might have about our approach to relationship counseling and how we might help you and your spouse.
Depending on your situation, we also offer EFT for unmarried couples, couples facing infidelity and divorce, and couples in need of premarital counseling.
You can reach us at 928-420-8300.
