COUPLES THERAPY
COUPLES THERAPY
What Is Couples Therapy?
Couples therapy focuses on improving the relationships that matter most. Whether between partners, spouses, or between parents and children, these forms of therapy provide a supportive space to strengthen communication, resolve conflict, and build healthier connections. The goal is not to place blame, but to create understanding, cooperation, and lasting change within relationships.
How It Works
In couples therapy, partners work together with a therapist to address recurring conflicts, communication breakdowns, or challenges such as trust issues, intimacy concerns, or life transitions. Couples can explore dynamics, heal misunderstandings, and improve patterns of interaction. Therapists may draw from approaches like Psychodynamic therapy, Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), the Gottman Method, or Family Systems Therapy, depending on the needs of the couple.
Benefits of Couples Therapy
Improved communication and conflict resolution
Stronger bonds of trust, respect, and intimacy
Healing from past hurts and unresolved tensions
Healthier ways of navigating stress, parenting, or life changes
A more supportive and connected environment
Who Can Benefit?
Couples therapy is valuable for relationships at any stage, whether you’re dating, engaged, married, or in a long-term partnership. It can help couples dealing with conflict, parenting challenges, major transitions, or the impact of trauma, addiction, or illness. Our approach is inclusive and supportive of diverse couples, including LGBTQIA+ partners, interracial couples, interfaith couples, and neurodivergent couples.
For more information about specific areas of focus for couples at PBA, check out the list on this page and click to learn more.
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At PBA, we help couples understand their attachment styles in order to promote emotional intimacy. We aim to foster a state of deeper connection, trust, and mutual vulnerability between individuals, where they can openly share their feelings and be truly known by the other person.
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At PBA we offer focused therapy to help couples process the trauma and challenges following all kinds of betrayals, providing an opportunity for reflection, deeper self and other understanding and providing a supportive environment to work on rebuilding trust, improve communication and decide whether to heal the relationship or separate in a healthy way. This therapy can address the motivations behind the affair, help the unfaithful partner take accountability, and guide the betrayed partner through feelings of trauma and insecurity.
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We are expert in creating a safe, culturally sensitive space for BIPOC couples to explore the deeper dynamics beneath recurring conflicts to foster greater emotional intimacy, understanding, and repair. The aim of this work is to assist the couple in understanding the conscious and unconscious traps and cycles, that keep them bound in conflict with each other in the context of their individual, familial and cultural histories and assist them in improving communication, establishing clearer boundaries and improving trust so as to increase harmony.
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This therapy is aimed at assisting couples to improve their communication, engage in active and reflective listening and improve their conflict resolution skills.
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At PBA, we are skilled at helping partners of different faiths navigate their unique challenges by deepening an understanding of the role and influence of faith on decision making, emotional expression and sexual intimacy. Therapy focuses on improving communication, respecting healthy boundaries and exploring decision making for the couple and family that are impacted by their different faiths.
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At PBA, we offer specialized therapy that addresses the unique challenges of partnerships with different racial or cultural backgrounds helping them navigate communication challenges, cultural and family pressures, societal biases and deepening their understanding of their own unconscious influences.
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PBA offers a highly tailored and supportive environment for same-sex and non-binary couples to navigate the challenges unique to their relationships. Within this therapy, a couple can address the unique experiences of a LGBTQIA+ identity on the couple dynamic while fostering growth, connection, and resilience.
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PBA is experienced in working with couples where one or both partners may have a diagnosis of ASD, ADHD or other neurodivergencies. We work to assist couples in understanding the impact of these differences on their communication and intimacy while building empathy and fostering connection.
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Couples therapy for sexual intimacy helps resolve the physical and psychological barriers to sexual intimacy by focusing on communication struggles, past trauma, trust issues and unconscious factors which can affect a couple. The aim is to create a compassionate and safe space for the couple to be able to explore deeper and more connected sexual intimacy.