How to Save a Troubled Relationship

Even the most robust, loving relationships can have their challenges. Conflicts, financial difficulties, trust issues, and other problems can fuel relational troubles. If you’re struggling to be on the same page as your partner, the experts at Thriving Center of Psychology can provide individualized and couples therapy.

Signs Your Relationship Might Need Help

Relational difficulties can have many causes. Some of the most common factors include:

• Substance abuse
• Blending families
• Sexual identity issues, such as being gay, bisexual, or transgender
• Infidelity
• Broken trust
• Sexual dysfunction or intimacy problems
• Death-related loss or separation

Getting Relationship Help

Although it might be difficult to ask for help, the mental health providers at Thriving Center of Psychology assure you that you’re not alone. The staff offers compassionate, judgment-free, and discreet therapy in a compassionate, safe environment. The sooner you act to seek help, the easier it can be to get peace of mind.

Your therapist or psychologist will work closely with you and your partner to learn about your specific needs. Through therapy, you will develop coping skills to handle your differences and learn to communicate more successfully. You’ll also receive resources that can help you manage conflict and preserve any relationship you have for the long term.

Building a Healthy, Happy Partnership

Relationship therapy can benefit anyone willing to improve their communication and enhance their interactions with others, whether they’re spouses, coworkers, family members, or friends. Some of the issues involved in relationship therapy include:

Looking Ahead

Relationship therapy focuses less on the past and more on where partners want to take their connection in the future. Your Thriving Center of Psychology provider can help you both learn how to rebuild trust, talk with each other, and repair your self-confidence so that you can move forward.

Reducing Stress

All relationships have stressors, and therapy can help you manage the things at home, at work, and in your personal life that cause tension. You’ll learn to reduce stress and put your feelings and thoughts into perspective through cognitive behavioral therapy and physical activity. Learning to manage relational stress can reduce conflict, and it’s good for your mental and physical well-being.

Improving Communication

To enhance how you communicate with your partner, your Thriving Center of Psychology practitioner will give you the strategies for speaking in a way that helps you be understood without risking an argument. Your provider will also teach you the essentials of active listening so that both you and your partner can see things from each other’s point of view.

Managing Expectations

People in solid and healthy relationships know how to set reasonable boundaries to reduce conflicts and know what to expect from their partners. Relationship therapy will help you set and manage your expectations to deal with disagreements and disputes down the road. 

If your relationship seems to be unhealthy lately, you can get help from Thriving Center of Psychology. Book an in-person or online video appointment today.