Improve Your Relationship with Gottman Couples Counseling

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Gottman-Informed Couples Counseling

Online in North Carolina, Ohio, Virginia, and West Virginia.
In-Person Appointments Available in Cary, North Carolina.

Based on forty years of research by Dr.’s John and Julie Gottman. Gottman couples therapy starts with a thorough assessment of your relationship then builds a treatment plan tailored to your relationship’s needs. You can choose to complete the Gottman Relationship Checkup (optional) for a comprehensive assessment of your relationship’s strengths and needs.

Gottman informed therapy helps:

  • Improve communication (Before you can connect with one another, you will learn how to talk to one another.)

  • Increase intimacy (Specific skills to improve connections, leading to more closeness.)

  • Disarm conflict (Identify your conflict style, and learn anecdotes based on your partner’s perceptive style.)

  • Increase affection (Build a culture of admiration and respect within your relationship.)

  • Affair Recovery (Healing from betrayal is hard. Both partners will identify skills in which they can communicate and rebuild trust.)

  • Adjusting to parenthood (Children require a lot of partnership, division of labor, and emotional energy from their parents. Learn important skills you never knew you needed as part of this transition.)

  • Adjustment to the “empty nest” (One of the most critical periods in your relationship is when children leave the home. Find friendship and passion with your partner again.)

Gottman-Informed Couples Therapy can help you:

  • Improve communication

  • Increase admiration and respect in your relationship

  • Increase intimacy

  • Decrease conflict

  • Work through gridlocked issues

How Gottman Couples Therapy Works

  • We spend this time getting to know you as a couple.  We'll review your relationship history, what brought you to couples therapy, how you've handled challenges in the past and establish goals for therapy.  If time permits, we will do a brief intervention to examine your conflict style and build more effective communication. 

  • Between couples counseling sessions 1 and 2 you and your partner will be invited to complete the Gottman Connect Relationship Checkup, an assessment tool that provides direct feedback specific to your relationship to identify what's going well and areas that need help. The Gottman Institute charges a small fee for the assessment tool and scoring report.

  • We’ll meet individually with each partner.  We'll discuss your family history, how conflicts were handled in your family of origin.  Your concerns and goals for the relationship.

  • Review of Gottman Relationship Checkup including strengths and needs in the relationship.  Treatment planning and examining interventions that will be beneficial to your relationship.  If time allows, we will continue with specific communication skills and conflict management techniques.

  • This is where the work gets deeper.  We will examine why each of you communicate the way you do and how to improve your connection through specific Gottman interventions.  These interventions are tailored to your relationship struggles.

Your relationship has strengths and potential.

We’re here to help you recover it.

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