Marriage Counseling

Marriage counseling can improve communication and repair relationships. Thomas A. Arzt, LCSW, BCD, in Miller Place, New York, takes an individualized approach to marriage counseling. He works separately with each partner, helping them improve their own intrapersonal conflicts to ultimately benefit their marital conflicts. Call the office or schedule an appointment online today to learn more about Tom’s marriage counseling style.

What is marriage counseling?

Marriage counseling, also called couples counseling, is a form of therapy that focuses on improving relationships. It’s a safe and neutral place for each partner in the marriage to discuss their concerns.

Marriage counseling can repair relationships and salvage families.

Tom is an experienced family therapist specializing in marriage counseling, taking an individualized and direct approach to care.

Who benefits from marriage counseling?

Any couple with a desire to improve their relationship can benefit from marriage counseling. Marriage counseling isn’t just for couples on the verge of separation or divorce. 

Relationships require work. Getting a little outside help from an experienced therapist can make that work a little easier, helping you tackle marital problems now and prevent problems in the future.

Most couples seek counseling due to communication issues. That’s because each partner in the relationship has their own interpersonal and intrapersonal conflicts.

Interpersonal conflicts

Interpersonal conflicts are communication problems between the couple in a relationship.

Intrapersonal conflicts

Intrapersonal conflicts are the conflicts within yourself that affect your emotions, coping strategies, and behaviors.

In marriage counseling, Tom focuses on both the interpersonal and intrapersonal conflicts in each partner and how they affect the relationship.

What happens during marriage counseling?

The specifics of your marriage counseling depend on your unique situation. Before making any recommendations, Tom meets with you as a couple and then individually. 

These appointments help him gather information about your relationship and communication style, as well as your individual intrapersonal conflicts that affect your marriage.

Though many people think marriage counseling works best when the couple engages in therapy together, Tom finds that individual therapy is more effective. Seeing you separately gives him a chance to help you understand your intrapersonal conflicts and how they impact your relationship.

Because communication is key in relationships, Tom finds that many people need to adjust their personal communication styles first and then integrate those adjustments into a new, more effective style of communication. 

It is this integration process that helps couples change and become more effective communicators long past the initial crisis that made them seek therapy.

Do you want to repair your marriage and improve communication? Call the office of Thomas A. Arzt, LCSW, BCD, or schedule an appointment online today to get started.