Couples Counseling: Tools and Interventions

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 Provide a confidential dialogue, which normalizes feelings
 Enable each person to be heard and to hear themselves
 Set boundaries so each person feels safe and empowered to express
his or her point of view in a way the other can hear and understand,
even though he or she may not agree
 Teach active listening, using I statements and objective terms from
the beginning
 Reflect the relationship's difficulties and the potential for
change
 Inform couples that it is not a matter of one person being right or
wrong, since both partners make sense from their perspective. They
will be learning how to better understand each other and improve
communication to restore harmony and intimacy
 Identify times in the past that have been good and what was different

Help each partner begin to understand how he or she is
contributing to the conflicts and can contribute to solutions
 Move from the "blame game" to looking at what happens to them as
a process.
 Look for exceptions
 Help both partners see the relationship in a more objective manner
 Identify repetitive, negative interaction cycles as a pattern
 Sex/Intimacy
 Resentments→Explosions
 Change the view of the relationship via functional perspective taking
 How is this behavior helpful to him/her/you?

Create new and positively bonding emotional events and
establish intimacy
 Meet the couple where they are--- What can they currently
comfortably do?
 What do they hope they will eventually be able to do?
 Teach the 5 love languages (touch, gifts, words, acts, quality time)
 Have each partner make a list of what those things are for them
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