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Couples Therapy services offered in McLean, VA
Personal relationships are one of life’s greatest joys, providing companionship that supports you through every happy and sad event. However, relationships always face problems along the way, and conflicts arise that partners can’t resolve without couples therapy provided by Laura Granato, PhD, LPC, and the team of clinicians at Verathy in Northern Virginia. They have years of experience helping couples overcome roadblocks and rebuild their relationships. You can learn more about couples therapy or schedule a telehealth appointment by calling the office or using the online booking feature today.
What is couples therapy?
Couples therapy supports and guides partners as they overcome problems in their relationship. Your Verathy therapist ensures couples have a safe environment where they can discuss their thoughts, needs, and emotions and strive to rebuild a trusting relationship.
Therapists working with couples guide the discussion, offer insight, and teach skills to restore a healthy connection.
How will we know when to seek couples therapy?
You should consider scheduling therapy when you can’t resolve disagreements, conflicts spiral out of control, or you start wondering if you should separate.
Other signs it’s time to meet with a Verathy therapist include:
- Having frequent arguments
- Making critical, sarcastic, and manipulative comments (one or both partners)
- Being unwilling to compromise
- Withholding attention, affection, and sex
- Not respecting the other person’s boundaries
- Engaging in controlling behaviors
- Having little to no concern for your partner’s feelings
- Feeling ongoing resentment, jealousy, or anger
- Following a relative or friend’s advice (against your partner’s wishes)
The experienced Verathy therapists have helped many couples overcome these and other relationship challenges.
What issues can couples therapy improve?
Couples frequently seek therapy when they disagree about significant decisions, which can arise from any aspect of their life, whether they disagree about friends or face issues like moving or changing jobs.
The caring Verathy team often helps couples with issues such as:
- Poor communication
- Anger management
- Conflict resolution
- Different parenting styles
- Financial problems
- Intimacy and sexual problems
- Emotional or physical abuse
- Loss of trust
No matter which issue a couple faces, difficulty communicating often lies at the heart of the problem. Critical, demanding, or angry communication makes it difficult to solve problems.
What should we expect during couples counseling?
The Verathy team includes many therapists specializing in specific problems and therapeutic approaches. For the first step, they do an initial screening to learn about you and your challenges and match you with the best therapist for you and your partner.
All their therapists specialize in helping couples explore and understand how each person’s experiences, emotions, behaviors, and values affect their current relationship.
Then, they use therapeutic approaches and teach tools for maintaining a healthy relationship, whether that means learning to communicate, setting boundaries, or other skills.
Call Verathy or request couples counseling through online booking to begin your journey toward a happier, healthier relationship today. Their telehealth services are available to patients living throughout Virginia, Maryland, and DC.