Couple Therapy

Making the choice to start a couple therapy is a very big step. It means to realize that things are not so perfect in your relationship, which is often hard and scary to admit.

Couple Therapy

The issues today’s couples bring to therapy are newly complex. Cultural forces are changing our society, making relationships more complicated than ever, prioritizing individual happiness and self-fulfillment above other relationship concerns.

As every relationship has its own story, carrying the own baggage, there is NOT a one-size-fits-all path to help couples. Dr Rita’s challenge as therapist is to offer partners a complete transformative experience helping them to find hope and joy in their relationship.

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Key Concepts

Transactional Analysis (TA)

Dr Rita uses Transactional Analysis (TA) as the most versatile way of looking at couples’ relationships. It is the only approach that combines intrapsychic and systemic thinking providing a remarkable structure for couple therapy.

Emotionally Focused Therapy

Integrating TA with her new specializing in EFT (Emotionally Focused Therapy), she’s experiencing with her clients there’s no better approach for an effective modern couple therapy. 

Clarity and Insight

In her therapeutic work with couples, Dr Rita brings clarity and insight helping people to figure out what to do next. She works with people who are struggling with jealousy and possessiveness, couples who don’t know how to improve their communication, couples who want to revitalize their sex lives, couples who want to learn to reconcile their differences, and even survive a physical or emotional affair without anger or bitterness. She also works with couples who want to learn how to end a relationship which is ruined beyond repair…also learning a healthy co-parenting after a separation or divorce.

Choosing a couple therapist?

How do you know you are making the right choice

The reality is that you won’t not know it for sure until you have one or two meetings. Couples are often uncertain about what to expect from a couple therapy. After ten years of clinical experience in working with couples, I found that couples tend to wait until they are in crisis mode to come to therapy. The majority of couples that I work with say that they should have started therapy years earlier. 

I support couples manage conflicts and stop negative cycles – a major cause of distress. I teach them skills specific to their relationship dynamics, so that they can repair blunders and prevent painful interactions from reoccurring.

Couples learn how to respond to difficult situations in a way that unites and connects them instead of divides.

Most issues within a couple start small and then grow up in size when things are really not resolved. Therapy can help, for instance, by giving tools and techniques to improve conflict resolution.

To every story there are 3 sides: his side, her side, and the truth. Thus an objective third party can be exactly what is needed when couples feel they can no longer communicate effectively or they get stuck in a vicious cycle. 

Our work together aims to help you in:

  • Changing the views of your relationship
  • Modifying dysfunctional behaviour
  • Increasing intimacy
  • Decreasing emotional avoidance
  • Improving communication and bond
  • Promoting strengths 

 How I work with couples:

  • I collaborate with you to uncover patterns that lead to fighting and defensiveness, while developing new ways of relating and communicating. I work with both partners to build a supportive relationship by fostering the underlying feelings that first brought you into the relationship. Therapy sessions will provide a safe, responsive place to discuss sensitive issues, including sexuality and infidelity. The goal is to create a safe supportive bond between partners. 

  • The length of your therapy will depend on how deep your conflicts are and how receptive both of you are to therapy. You may need fewer sessions to get back on track, or you may invest in more sessions to get to deeper problems that keep affecting your relationship. Couples therapy generally takes 8 to 20 sessions. However, your assessment and treatment plan will be unique to you as a couple, and I will collaborate with you on how much time is appropriate for you.

  • Even if you are ending your relationship, therapy can give you a healthier, less destructive way to close it. And therapy may help you find new solutions to the problems that made the relationship become so troubled.

  • I work to find both partners’ part in the “dance” of your relationship, so you can discover together where you may want to change.

  • My therapy is appropriate for all kinds of couples. I use to work with many intercultural/mixed couples from different ethnicities and backgrounds, and with gay and lesbian couples seeing the effectiveness of my therapeutic approach.

A couple therapy experience can be a huge source of support, strength and growth for you as single person too. It’s not just about your relationship; it’s about having self-respect and feeling “OK” about how you interact with your partner, especially under stress. You owe it to your relationship, and to your own happiness in life to learn some satisfying alternatives.

You don’t have to continue experiencing the same painful pattern over and over again.

Stop the negative cycle before that has a chance to go from bad to worse!

 

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