Action Relational Therapy Offers Effective Therapy Centered in Relationships, and Skill Building

Why couples therapy?

Aiming to regain what brought you together
Silent tense car rides replace the lively conversations and laughter of years before. Being in the company of the person you love seems more painful than being alone. What happened? There could be many reasons why couples experience difficulties and misunderstandings that set them apart and weaken the once very close relationship. Couples therapy at ART has been successful because it focuses on partners regaining what brought them together.

For Couples Who Have Children
When children experience problems such as substance abuse, ADHD, uncontrollable negative expressions of anger, depression, oppositional behavior, anxiety or any other life difficulty, the relationship between the parents is often affected, and the couple find themselves fighting to help and save their child, and also to maintain their own relationship.
Sometimes, it is the wife who feels that she does not get enough emotional support and is parenting the trouble child alone. Her criticism of how her husband is handling the situation affects him deeply and the interactions between them are very negative, and both blame each other for what they are experiencing as parents and as a couple.

A Cycle that Repeats Itself
Their troubled relationship is obvious to everyone in the family, and the child facing the difficulties may experience a sense of guilt, hopelessness, and isolation. Not knowing where to turn, or what to do, the child's symptoms become more recurrent and serious, as this happens, the parents become fearful and frustrated, and most of the time, their arguments increase and intensify. In response, the child reaches a crisis.

Healing Starts with you, the Couple
Couples therapy along with family therapy will not only restore peaceful, clear communication between husband and wife, but will also greatly increase the chances for their child to regain mental and emotional health. It is not important to find out what came first, the couple's relationship difficulties or their child's symptoms. The most important goal is to achieve a general sense of well being among all members of the family. This is possible by developing skills that will greatly improve the couple's communication, and conflict resolutions styles.

For Couples without Children
Gaining back trust, consideration, appreciation and care from the one you love becomes an important goal for couples who find themselves in a relationship crisis. It is not only important to talk about "the issues", but to develop skills that will help couples to establish calm communication without arguing and placing blame on each other. This effectively decreases the crisis couples usually face by the time they seek therapy. At ART of Florida, we facilitate skills development, which means that each spouse learns to identify and apply necessary skills to interact in a way that builds the relationship instead of destroying it, as heated arguments and insults do.

Multidimensional Therapy to Improve all Areas of your Life
Participants not only learn new skills to improve their most intimate relationships, but they adapt those skills to other areas of their lives. Communication and conflict resolution skills are very helpful at work or any other social context. Anger management skills are very important tools in couples' therapy, and at ART we emphasize their practice in other life's situations such as driving on crowded highways or streets, disagreeing with co-workers or extended family members. In time, these skills are transferred to other life situations and difficulties and become a way of life, and not a short-lived intervention.

WE OFFER EFFECTIVE COUPLES' THERAPY THAT WILL HELP ENHANCE YOUR LIFE AS A COUPLE WITH OR WITHOUT CHILDREN. YOU WILL ACHIEVE THE DREAM YOU ENVISION FOR YOUR RELATIONSHIP….EVEN IF YOU HAVE ATTENDED THERAPY IN THE PAST AND DID NOT HELP YOUR SITUATION.
THERE IS NO FAILING AT THERAPY, IF YOU DO NOT EXPERIENCE POSITIVE CHANGES, WE HAVE FAILED YOU…..CALL NOW AND REGAIN THE HAPPINES YOU BOTH ONCE SHARED.