07 | Couples Therapy (Behind the Scenes)

Hey sports fans, welcome back to the second episode in our 2-part mini-series on relationships and couples. This week we focus on the therapy side of things - in other words, what it's like to facilitate couples therapy (cue ominous music)! Speaking from the LPC track, therapists don't get a lot of couples counseling training in graduate school, so starting to learn and gain experience in couples work can feel very intimidating. Here are some things we've experienced as therapists working with couples, our struggles and our strategies. We talk about common things couples come to counseling for and dig down to the root of it all. Couples want to communicate, but the truth is that we almost always know how to communicate - what we get to do in therapy is figure out how to identiy and heal what gets in the way of being able to truly listen and hear our partners (and even express our own wants and needs clearly). We do away with the "I just want my partner to know what I want/need without me having to tell them" nonsense (even though we get why that's appealing) and we talk about how, as therapists, we can get hooked by our Yeah-Butter clients, losing sight of just what makes therapy sessions so uniquely valuable (spoiler alert: it's YOU, hi! You're the treatment, it's you). As always, thanks to our producer, Mr. Fun Buns, who does all the techy things and keep this train on the tracks. Make sure to like, share, follow, subscribe, and share with your friends. Find us on instagram at @notgreathowareyoupodVery important book recommendations: Secure Relating: Holding Your Own in an Insure World - Ann Kelley PhD and Sue Marriott LCSW CGPPassionate Marriage: Keeping Love and Intimacy Alive in Committed Relationships - David Schnarch, PhD Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.