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Couples Therapy

Helping you mend and build stronger relationships

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You're experiencing the same unproductive patterns in your relationship and feel stuck in conflict

When you try to address a problem with your partner, your differing communication styles make it impossible to listen to each other’s needs.

As you navigate life’s changes, you feel yourselves growing more disconnected and distant and losing touch with the person you once knew.

Each conflict deepens relationship wounds, making recovery seem almost impossible.

You often have thoughts such as:

  • “Why is it so hard for my partner to understand why I’m upset?”
  • “I’m afraid that my partner will never be able to trust me again.”
  • “Can I ever trust my partner?”
  • “I miss the person I fell in love with; I wish things were the same between us.”
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We all have an innate need for connection. Yet, as you get stuck in cycles of conflict and arguments, you feel emotionally and physically disconnected and alone.

So, it’s no wonder disconnected couples often come in feeling angry, stressed, and lonely.

If you don’t address the root cause of your conflicts and learn to communicate better with each other, your relationship is at stake. Unresolved resentment and pain could overshadow the positive aspects of your relationship.

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The good news is that you can break this cycle no matter how hopeless things seem.

You don’t need to remain in a vicious cycle of stress, conflict, and disconnection.

Our therapists use Emotional-Focused Therapy (EFT) to help you and your partner break negative patterns and reconnect with the love you have for one another.

Emotionally Focused Therapy Can Help You Restore Joy and Fulfilment in Your Relationship

EFT goes beyond resolving surface-level conflicts; we address the underlying reasons for miscommunication and disconnect.

When we become reactive, we blame, shut down, and criticize, further escalating conflicts and hindering effective communication.

Through Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), we will:
  • Uncover Root Causes: We delve deeper to uncover the root cause of your reactivity, such as a past hurt or unmet needs that lead to a fight-or-flight response during conflicts.
  • Understand Triggers: Recognize that there’s always an underlying reason for intense emotional reactions, often related to feeling alone, hurt, or unsupported.
  • Slow Down and Share:: In EFT, we slow down the process of communication and encourage you to share what’s truly affecting you in a more vulnerable way. This vulnerability allows for communication below the surface level, creating a new, empathetic way of hearing and understanding each other.
  • Consistent Honesty: You’ve likely had moments of honesty with your partner. EFT helps you do this consistently and sustainably without needing a breakdown to prompt it.
  • Find your true intimacy: EFT helps you rebuild intimacy you once had and learn to maintain it.

Research shows that 70-75% of couples completing EFT move from distress to recovery, and 90% show significant improvement.

We Are Your Relationship Experts

At Touchstone Psychology, we provide a healing space for you and your partner to build, repair, or transform your relationship for the better.

Our team of compassionate and skilled experts have worked with hundreds of couples through their most testing times. We are your partners in this process, ready to guide you through each step.

Most couples come to us after struggling with conflict, attachment injuries, or transitioning through milestones like the arrival of children.

When they first begin therapy, they feel hopeless and stuck in unproductive patterns. After working with us, our clients report feeling:

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Celebrating Diversity of Love Relationships

We honor and welcome the diversity of ways in which people love. WE tune into your goals and needs for your relationship and help you reach them. We work with partners of different cultural and racial backgrounds, same sex relationships, partners navigating non-monogamous relationships, and gender-nonconforming members of a relationship.

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What is the most challenging part of therapy?

Reaching out to take the first step.

Take the first step toward a restored relationship by scheduling a consultation with one of our compassionate psychotherapists today.

We look forward to meeting with you and supporting you every step of the way.

Ready to start couples therapy?

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