Tuesday, May 15, 2012

Couples Counseling: The Benefit of Seeking Help

By Dio Ravey


The advantage of seeking professional help (in regards to the relationship issues) is that it will provide possible solutions to the issues and get the relationships back on track, as well as reorienting the individuals' perceptions and emotions. Couples counseling will include insight into how each other responds to and feels about situations. This implies that each person takes equal responsibility for awareness of the problem as it arises, awareness of their own contribution to the problem and making some fundamental changes in thought and feeling.

The benefit of seeking professional help (in regards to the relationship issues) is that it will provide possible solutions to the issues and get the relationships back on track, as well as reorienting the individuals' perceptions and emotions. Couples counseling will include insight into how each other responds to and feels about situations. This implies that each person takes equal responsibility for awareness of the problem as it arises, awareness of their own contribution to the problem and making some fundamental changes in thought and feeling.

Counseling is certainly something that a couple should not be frightened to try, even if the troubles are just small. It is even more advantageous if a couple seek early help on their relationship as solving small problems with counseling can avoid bigger troubles in the future. Early counseling can even prevent a future divorce.

The Advantages of Couples Counseling:

* It normalizes feelings through a confidential dialogue

* To enable each person to be heard and to hear themselves

* Provide a medium to weigh the relationship's difficulties and the potential and direction for change

* Empower the relationship to take control of its own destiny and make vital decisions

* Help the couples manage their feelings with each other, impose respect at the same time renew the love that they had

* Help the couples manage their feelings with each other, impose respect at the same time renew the love that they had

The Basic Principle of a Professional Counselor:

* To identify the repetitive, negative interaction

* To understand the source of reactive emotions that cause the interaction.

* To expand and re-organize key emotional responses in the relationship.

* To create new and positively bonding emotional events in the relationship

* To foster a secure attachment between partners.

* To help maintain a sense of intimacy.

If you think you require Couples Counseling, be sure to attend with your partner. You can tell your partner that is for the success of your relationship. Put in clear words that you feel you need some assistance to be able to add more to the relationship, and to learn how to be a better other half. Once in the counseling office, both of you are expected to participate in the activities that are built and tailored for your situation.

If you are feeling stressed about a relationship, you may need to seek help on individual or couples counseling. A good Couples Counselor can help you identify repetitive problematic patterns in your current relationship and will teach you more effective ways of dealing with it.




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