Marriage Counseling in Miami, FL
Offering Couples Therapy in Miami and Online Marriage Counseling in Florida
Your Relationship Isn’t What it Used to Be
You feel lonely in your relationship.
You don’t know how you got here but you dread going home and feel unheard when you try and explain your point of view.
We help you reconnect with your partner, so that you both felt heard and understood, improving communication and happiness.
Everyone deserves to feel loved and heard in their relationship.
Meet our Couples Therapists
What is Marriage Counseling?
Marriage counseling is when two individuals meet with a clinician who has specialized training in working with couples and relationships. A marriage and family therapist is an ideal candidate for the professional you want to work with as they have had extensive training around working with couples and families.
When two people get together, fall in love and either get married or commit to each other, they each bring with them different life experiences and values. No two people have had the same upbringing and childhood and so they bring with them different ways of communicating, different cultures and different ways of interacting with conflict.
Even if the married couple each come from the same religion, race or culture, there are different ways of interacting and being that develop within the same culture.
A marriage counselor will help you identify areas in your relationship that would benefit from being strengthened and then provide you with tools and tips to target and improve those areas.
As a couples therapist, we provide Marriage Counseling in Miami and online in Florida to help couples reconnect again and feel loved and heard in their relationship.
Our Miami Therapist Help Couples who..
Couples reach out to start marriage counseling or couples counseling for many different reasons. Many couples wait until they are in a severe crisis before they reach out to get support from a marriage counselor, but it can be extremely helpful to reach out before.
The severity of the presenting problem often impacts the length of couples therapy. If the couple has great strengths and resources that they are able to use, then the length of couples therapy that is needed can decrease.
Though we say marriage counseling, you do not need to be married to go to couples counseling. Couples counseling can be for any individuals who are in an intimate relationship. This can include gay couples, lesbian couples, polyamorous couples or anyone else that identifies as being a part of the LGBTQIA+ community.
Here are some of the reasons people might reach out to start Marriage counseling or Couples Counseling:
Communication: many couples describe that they have challenges with communication where neither individual feels like they are being heard or understood. Communication can play a huge role in arguments.
Conflict and Persistent Arguments: many couples come to marriage counseling because they are having the same arguments over and over again without making any progress
Addiction: if one member of the relationship is struggling with addiction, it can have a huge impact on the relationship causing arguments and constant conflict
Issue of Trust and Betrayals: when trust is jeopardized in a relationship or marriage, it can take a lot of time to be able to heal and move forward. Couples counseling can be a huge tool in that process of healing
Family Dynamics: many couples come to couples counseling when they are struggling with in-laws or they are bringing together two different families through a new marriage
Intimacy: intimacy can look different for each couple, but often each member of the couple has a view on what intimacy should look like and that can create conflict or disappointment the relationship
Life Transition: research shows the the years after bringing a baby home can be one of the most challenging, and many notice a severe decline in relationship satisfaction.
My Partner is Struggling.. Will We Benefit from Couples Therapy?
When one partner is struggling with a mental health issue it will effect the partner. It might be work stress, addiction, grief or loss, trauma, anxiety, postpartum depression or burnoutt. Whatever the issue it, it will definitely have an impact on the partner and the relationship.
It is for this reason that couples therapy and marriage counseling can be crucial to the healing journey for the individual and the couple when faced with an issue such as depression, loss or addiction.
We offer marriage counseling in Miami and couples therapy in Miami for couples that are struggling with a variety of issues. We want to see each individual partner thrive as well as the relationship.
Relationships are Hard but Marriage Counseling Can Help
Relationships are hard. In the beginning it seems like it will be easy; the passion takes over and it feels like love will be enough to get you through.
Life is really busy and when daily life hits you with the daily responsibilities and stress, couples find that it is hard to find the time to focus on the relationship and find ways in which they feel truly connected.
As time passes, you get into a new rhythm within your marriage and though things are not what they used to be, it seems like everything is okay. The children are a priority, not the marriage, and slowly you feel yourself drifting further away from each other until you realize you don’t really have much in common anymore.
In can be extra hard when there are major changes or life transition to find time to focus on the marriage and relationship. This can happen after having a baby, when grieving the loss of a loved one, when a family member is sick or when an elder parent is needing extra care.
One of the biggest myths of marriage is that the relationship should be easy. Even healthy relationships take a lot of work and require commitment and work for years.
Each relationship has its highs and its lows, but is it how you manage the lows and the challenges that really impact the growth of the relationship.
When a couple stops working on the relationship, that is when the relationship has challenges.
Going to marriage counseling and couples therapy is a commitment and takes work. Yet, many couples say that it is work that is worthwhile and so beneficial to the health and well-being of themselves and their marriage.
When your relationships are strong and healthy, you feel strong and healthy.
Does Couples Therapy Work?
If you are thinking about if couples counseling is worth the effort, time and financial commitment you are not alone. You might be skeptical about whether it really works, or maybe you have heard from friends and family about the lack of success that they experienced.
Couples therapy is a lot of work, and like anything, if something is going to work you have to first believe that there is the possibility for success.
Research shows that Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT), a type of therapy used by couples therapist, is 75 percent effective (APA). Emotionally-Focused Therapy is a humanistic approach to therapy that focuses on the science of adult attachment bonds and how that impacts marriages and intimate relationships.
It is important to note that are a lot of factors that can contribute to the success in marriage counseling or the lack of success.
Positive outcomes are most likely to occur when the partners are willing to be vulnerable, are willing to become more self-aware and to learn more about themselves and each other.
Success can also depend on the ability for one partner to feel empathy for another. It is important for each partner to want to understand the other partner’s perspective and to learn about their past and the impact it has on their relationship.
It is important for each partner to understand their contribution to the relationship problems and problematic dynamics.
Often each partner will come to couples therapy with a list of grievances they have about the other partner. Many times they will try to get the marriage therapist to side with them and to try and change the other partner. Though it is important for each partner to share their experiences within the relationship and the challenges they are facing, it it crucial that the couple understand that they each play a role in the relationship challenges and success.
Signs You Might Benefit from Marriage Counseling
You feel like you and your partner are fighting more than normal
Are you in a sex-less marriage and don’t know what to do about it
You keep on having the same fight over and over again with your partner
You feel you can’t even communicate with your partner about simple issues
You don’t feel emotionally of physically connected in your relationship
You feel like you can not trust your partner anymore
You feel like your partner is more like a roommate
You just had a baby and feel you have lost the relationship you used to have
You are struggling to get pregnant and are overwhelmed with pain and loss
You feel like your relationship has no passion
The Heard Counseling’s Approach to Marriage Counseling in Miami
It is important for us that each partner in marriage counseling and couples counseling feel as that all three members, the couple and the therapist, are on the same team. The couples therapist will strive to ensure that each partner does not feel like they are aligned with one partner over the other.
Instead, the therapist promotes conversation so that both parties feel like they are heard and get a chance to share their perspective.
What is important for us is that you feel like you are making progress and are achieving changes and results. For results to be achieved, the couple must put the work in after the sessions. Change is very possible but there has to be a commitment to that process.
At the beginning of therapy we will often talk about the expectations that the couple has for therapy. It is important that all our expectations are aligned so that we can work together to achieve improvements in your relationship.
We would describe our approach as fair, informative, honest and insightful. We strive to help you improve your communication with your partner and learn how to be more effective during conflict, so that there are less arguments and more understanding between the couple.
At the Heard Counseling we are a Miami therapist that offers couples therapy in Miami and marriage counseling in Miami to help couples regain that sense of connection that they had in the early days of their relationship. We have worked with many couples in therapy and are here to support you through your relationship journey. We offer couples therapy in Miami or online in Florida.
Relationship Counseling Can Improve your Communication + Connection
As a couples therapist, we help each partner understand their style of communication and how they learned that style of communication. We often learn our style of communication from our families and carry that with us through all our relationships in life.
We promote understanding between the couple around their communication style and encourage reducing blame around the differences in communication styles.
Couples therapy helps partners listen to each other, understand what they each are really trying to say and respond for effectively to each other. This can be especially hard during conflict, so we address the dynamic that takes place for the couple when they argue.
Conflict is a healthy part of every relationship as long as it is managed effectively and in a way that promotes growth and discussion.
Our role as a couples therapist is to facilitate a safe conversation between the couple that can help them understand their strengths, what they are good at as a couple, their resources and solutions to their problems as a couple.
Couples therapy can be work and challenging at times but our Miami therapist is there to help you through this process.
Feeling like you don’t have to worry so much about your relationship is so worth it.
Common Questions about Marriage Counseling
Where do you offer treatment for Marriage Counseling and Couples Therapy?
We offer online therapy in Florida for individuals & couples. We offer counseling in Miami with our Miami therapist or online in Florida.
Will my insurance cover my therapy?
Unfortunately, we do not take insurance There are many reasons why we don’t and you can read more about that here. One of those reasons is we value your privacy and confidentiality. When using insurance, medical notes and records can be required to be shared and these records can go through many hands.
Couples therapy is often not covered by insurance because a medical diagnosis is required by the insurance but there are no medical diagnoses in the Diagnosis Manual for couples.
We understand if you would like to go through your insurance and happy to connect you with other Miami therapists who do accept insurance.
I am not sure if therapy is right for me.
We understand that life is really busy and going to couples therapy in miami can feel like you have failed. It might even be embarrassing. You might believe that you should be able to solve your own problems, you shouldn’t need help.
If you are struggling in your relationship you deserve things to be better.
When we are struggling in our marriage it can effect every area of our lives. It is not only important for you but for your child, your family, and your partner. If you feel better in your relationship it can improve so many areas of your life and happiness.
We are here for you. If you would like to learn more about marriage counseling in Miami or online in Florida you can reach out to us, or schedule your first consultation.
Begin Marriage Counseling and Couples Therapy in Miami, FL:
You don’t have feel lonely and unloved in your relationship anymore. Help is available and change is possible. Our Miami therapist specializes in providing marriage counseling in Miami and couples therapy in Miami. To begin counseling in Miami or online therapy in Florida, please follow these steps:
Contact our Miami therapist,
Request an initial consultation appointment with a therapist who specializes in marriage counseling,
Find more connected and happy in your relationship thanks to marriage counseling in Miami
Other Services Offered at The Heard Counseling:
The Heard Counseling offers counseling in Miami and online in Florida to couples, individuals and teens at our therapy center based in Miami, Florida. Right now, they are offering all their counseling services via online therapy . In addition to offering marriage counseling in Miami and couples counseling in Miami, they also offer birth trauma treatment, anxiety therapy, therapy for dads, therapy for moms, infertility counseling and support, therapy for women and families who have experienced pregnancy and infant loss, and counseling for teens. Check out their blog for valuable mental health tips. Contact their counseling office to learn more about the many ways they can help you improve your relationship.
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www.theheardcounseling.com
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(305) 998-2665
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