Couples Counseling in Indianapolis
From premarital counseling to restoring your connection with one another, we’re here to help.
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Counseling
Sharing your life with someone you love isn’t always easy.
Sure, the sunshine and rainbows of the early stages of a relationship can feel magical. But things can get sticky once “real life” sets in. And that’s normal. You are two different people with two different backgrounds, upbringings, and personalities, after all.
Maybe you’re preparing for marriage.
Perhaps you’re facing challenging life transitions together and need an ally to guide you through them. Or maybe you’ve grown apart due to infidelity, communication issues, or the ever-so-common “I don’t know why.”
Whatever you and your partner are facing, we’ll meet you where you are and help you build a path forward through couples counseling in Indianapolis or online anywhere in Indiana.
Healthy relationships take work. We’re here to help.
At Life Enrichment Counseling, we can help you and your significant other build a strong foundation before you walk down the aisle, navigate you through relationship struggles, and even help you decide whether to stay together or part ways.
Premarital Counseling
Coming to premarital counseling in Indianapolis is the best way to give your marriage a strong start. Whether everything feels perfect in your relationship or you’re dealing with existing hiccups, premarital counseling can set your marriage on the right path.
Our couples therapists are trained to work with couples of all stages, so we have the know-how to help you explore areas that most commonly trouble couples before they happen. Some of these issues include:
dealing with extended family
parenthood
life goals
spirituality
finances
intimacy
We’ll work with you to strengthen your communication and connection as you embark on this new and exciting chapter of your lives together, and we will help set you up for marital success.
Couples or Marriage Counseling
Even the strongest of relationships can fall into a rut over time. You may feel stuck and unsure of how to talk through issues without it leading to hurt feelings. As you grow and evolve individually, your relationship with your partner can grow stagnant. And if you don’t intentionally focus on investing in your relationship, things aren’t going to change. In fact, research shows that couples often wait around six years before going to couples counseling.
You and your partner have likely developed unhealthy ways of working through your issues, leading to disconnect. So, it will take time to truly understand and address what’s causing the rift. And that’s okay. We’ll meet you both wherever you are and work through it together.
Couples or marriage counseling in Indianapolis provides you with a safe space and dedicated time to invest in improving and revitalizing your relationship. And isn’t having a strong, supportive, and intimate relationship with your partner worth it?
Of course, it is.
Discernment Counseling
If your relationship is on the brink and you’re trying to decide whether to work through your challenges to stay together, discernment counseling can help. This short-term type of relationship counseling requires specific training, and our therapists have it.
Discernment counseling is also different from typical couples counseling. It’s not about solving marital or couple problems; it’s about determining whether you can resolve those problems or not. The goal is to help you decide whether to stay together or part ways.
Discernment counseling is ideal for couples who are experiencing:
thoughts of separation or divorce
the same arguments over and over again without a resolution
emotional exhaustion with your partner
a separation, but want to see if you can get back together and make it work
Typically, you can decide between staying together or divorcing after 4-7 sessions. That’s the power of discernment counseling. So, if you’re on the fence about it, we’re here to help!
Approaches Used in Couples Counseling in Indianapolis
Our relationship therapists typically use the following approaches based on decades of research to help you work through your challenges when working with couples.
The Gottman Method
This well-known approach is based on research gained from studying thousands of couples to determine patterns leading to lasting relationships. It found that there are seven critical components of connection. These components shape a “relationship house,” allowing you to build your relationship from the foundation to the roof.
The seven components include the following:
trust
commitment
love maps (knowing your partner)
sharing fondness and respect
turning toward your partner
a positive perspective on the ability to solve problems and repair from arguments, effectively manage conflict, and support each other’s dreams and goals
creating shared meaning as a couple
This structured method includes tools and handouts, focusing on the seven key components to help build and strengthen the parts of your “relationship house” that require attention.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
There are typically one of two ways you cope with relationship distress:
push forward to create a connection
step back to keep things from escalating
In many relationships, there is one of each of these types of people. While both responses are meant to improve things, they actually cause a “push-pull” in the relationship, leading to disconnect.
This approach, while structured in its own way, uses fewer handouts and focuses on helping couples in the moment during therapy sessions. EFT aims to help you and your partner understand yourself, each other, and the patterns in your relationship.
One of the most essential aspects of EFT is helping you and your partner recognize patterns, individually and together, outside of our sessions. Once recognized, we’ll help you and your partner learn how to truly identify the cause of your arguments and give you helpful tools to keep it from escalating or happening at all. If it does, EFT can help you recover and repair more effectively.
Using EFT, your therapist will work with you in the moment to help you recognize when feelings begin rising and this push-pull starts to happen. EFT allows you to slow things down and hear and discuss the hurt, sadness, and longing each of you feels in your relationship when trouble arises.
It’s time to feel less like roommates and more like partners.
Whether you want to start your marriage as strong as possible through premarital counseling, strengthen your connection through couples or marriage counseling, or need guidance to decide which path to take, we’ve got your back.
We get it—relationships are hard.
But we have the know-how and understanding to help make things clearer and more fulfilling, no matter where you are in your relationship journey.
Contact us today, and let’s work on your relationship together!