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Often it may seem impossible to have a healthy and happy relationship due to the different stressors in our fast-paced lives right now, however, we can enjoy a functional, positive, and mutually beneficial relationship with our partners. Our relationship counselors can help in improving and enhancing relationships with your significant others. Through couple counseling, you can make thoughtful decisions about rebuilding and strengthening your relationship or going your separate ways.
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What is Couples/Marriage Counselling?

Couples counselling helps two people involved in a romantic relationship gain insight into their relationship, resolve conflict and improve relationship satisfaction utilizing a variety of therapeutic interventions. You can avail of our services for professional marriage counselling which consists of the following elements:

  • Focus on specific problem (i.e. sexual difficulties, Internet addiction, jealousy)

  • Focus on treating the relationship itself, rather than each individual separately
  • Solution-focused, change-oriented interventions early on in therapy
  • Clearly establishing therapy objectives

Our marriage counselors help provide a space for couples to explore and revitalize their relationship.

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Why Couples Counselling?

Our marriage counsellors help couples in all types of intimate relationships — regardless of sexual orientation or marriage status.

There are different reasons for which a couple thinks of marriage counselling, and everywhere else, either to strengthen their relationship or improve their troubled relationship. Some of these are:

  • Gaining better insight into the relationship
  • Deeper understanding of each other
  • Communication problems
  • Sexual difficulties
  • Conflicts about child rearing or blended families
  • Substance abuse
  • Anger
  • Abuse
  • Infidelity

What to Expect in Couples/Marriage Counselling?

Usually, couples/marriage therapy begins with standard interview questions regarding the history of the relationship as well as individual history regarding each person’s mental health, and family and cultural background. 

Depending on the specific issues that clients seek assistance in addressing, the marriage counsellors would employ different techniques, exercises, and tools in their sessions.

Our couples counsellors use the following components as a basic outline for couples counselling:

  • Questions
    Our couples counsellors would ask you about you, your partner, your personal histories, your current relationship, and your history as a couple.

  • Difficult discussions
    Although it might be difficult to talk about personal and private matters in front of another person, our relationship counsellors in Pune are adept at navigating through difficult topics and discussions for you and your partner.

  • Discussion of therapy progression
    We believe that you would be the best ones who can tell us about how the therapy is helping, hurting, or not changing a thing each session. This helps our couples therapists to develop a further plan as per your necessities.

  • Homework
    Our couples/ marriage counsellors might suggest some exercises at home to help you practice what you’ve learned during your session.

How Can Marriage Counselling Help?

The primary positive outcome of couples/marriage counselling is a reduction in relationship distress or complaints between partners.

You can avail our marriage counselling services for the following benefits:

  • Improving communication

    • Couples learn to communicate more effectively, for example, by act of active listening or learning to speak up without offending their partner

  • Resolving conflict

    • Couples learn to listen before responding and learn to hear what the other person is saying and learn techniques of fair fighting
    • This may help in resolving conflict effectively by identifying and dealing with the actual conflict

  • Processing unresolved issues

    • Can help provide a safe space to express issues that arise in any relationship

  • Develop deeper intimacy and trust

    • Can help deepen physical and emotional intimacy and trust

  • Accountability

    • Helps in assigning techniques for homework and role modelling to create patterns that will stay lifelong

Frequently Asked Questions

Does counselling work for couples?

There are diverse stressors in a marriage. These could vary from work-related problems to incompatibility issues and even unrealistic expectations from each other. To make the most of professional intervention, timing matters. Acknowledging that you need help early on can go a long way in saving your marriage or relationship when you opt for couple counseling.

Couples had reported that couple counselling helped save their relationships when they were on the brink of separation or even divorce. But it is important to remember, couples therapy is hard work and requires dedication from both partners. As a result, it may seem like the relationship is getting worse before getting better. As with any therapy, there are no guarantees, but success is dependent on the motivation of both the partners and their readiness to stay the course if things get tough.

It can often take a substantial dramatic episode to motivate a couple to seek marriage counselling. In these situations, the truth is that counselling should have started a long time before cases got out of control. Some dramatic episodes often include affairs, threats of divorce, and ordinarily the last straw for couples before seeking help from a relationship counsellor.

Some couples find what they need in as few as 4-6 sessions. These are generally situations where the couples need help improving communication or resolving day-to-day dilemmas around responsibilities, parenting, finances, or shared goals. This specific, solution-focused therapy is often known as relationship coaching.

However, some couples face more complicated challenges and need assistance from long-term professional marriage counselling.

The short answer is – no. Unless there’s abuse involved, and in those cases only during one-on-one sittings with the victim. Counsellors, in general, avoid providing any sort of advice. This is because a psychotherapist shouldn’t serve as a judge, even in the case where it would be welcomed. Psychology is founded in affirm the belief that a person is and should be in the power of their own lives and decisions.

Even though during your sessions, you won’t hear a counsellor explicitly say so, you could expect them to facilitate such a decision in some cases.

A couple may find themselves in a relationship that needs some outside guidance to progress healthily. Couples therapy is intended to help partners overcome several relationship obstacles like communication problems, power struggles, infidelity, or intimacy issues. These barriers, however, are not solely limited to married couples. A relationship counsellor offers therapy to any kind of partner, regardless of whether or not you are married.

When attempting to fix your marital problems, remember that failure is very likely if both of you are not 100% committed and focused on saving your relationship. Therefore, even with professional marriage counseling, whether or not a marriage can be saved depends on several factors that both partners bring to these sessions. If the two partners have the motivation and the determination, only then can you expect positive results.