Can Therapy Save Your Relationship?
The research says it just might…
People come to couples counselling for many reasons. Not everyone who seeks couples counselling is having significant problems in their relationship, but for many it is a last ditch effort to save a relationship on the brink of ending. We don’t want to let love die, but we also can’t continue loving in a way that is causing us pain. So, we seek help.
What can couples counselling really accomplish, though? Couples counselling can be a significant investment of time and money and it’s not uncommon for one person to have to convince their partner to give it a shot. From my experience, it can be scary to walk into the therapy room with your partner. If it is a relationship we desperately want to save, it can feel vulnerable and risky to have hope. It’s a lot. It makes sense that we want an answer to the question of what it can do for us before we begin the process.
I could tell you that from my experience it works but I’m only one person so that doesn’t exactly give you much to go on. So, what does the research say?
What does the research say about relationship counselling?
In 2020, researchers at the University of Miami conducted a meta-analysis of couple therapy. Essentially, this means that…
