Couples Therapy in Tri-Cities
Katelyn Reseck offers couples therapy in-person in Tri-Cities and virtually throughout Washington state.
Couples therapy can be an instrumental tool for a couple that is struggling to connect physically, emotionally, or sexually.
Couples therapy gives partners an opportunity to learn about the dynamics and interactional patterns in your relationship that are at the root of conflict and fuel your disconnection.
Couples therapy is rooted in attachment science (how and why we connect with important people in our lives) and uses evidenced-based interventions part of the Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) framework.
You and your partner can rebuild your connection and create a bond that lasts. Invest in your relationship today.
How does couples therapy work?
Marriage or couples therapy is a type of therapy where individuals involved in a romantic partnership meet with a therapist to improve their relationship, resolve conflict, repair hurt or betrayal, and increase relationship satisfaction.
Couples therapy takes place with both partners in the room during session. As a couple, you’ll explore the dynamics at play within your relationship and the patterns that are keeping you stuck in cycles of conflict and disconnection. Pinpointing the underlying dynamics within your relationship gives you the power to change those dynamics, reduce distress in your relationship, and see your partner from a new perspective.
Most couples come away from couples therapy with a new understanding of the patterns that cause disconnection in their relationship. They have a new and better way to communicate and connect with their partners.
How can couples therapy help?
- Improve communication
- Effectively express your needs to your partner(s)
- Address and repair conflict
- Learn how to meet your partner’s needs
- Repair broken trust
- Address infidelity
- Increase emotional intimacy
- Improve your sexual relationship and sexual satisfaction
- Managing parenting and co-parenting
- Manage life transitions (marriage, divorce, parenthood, etc.)
- Learn how to manage differences
- Manage issues around extended family
- Effectively express and set boundaries
- Creating admiration for your partner
- Becoming best friends with your partner
- Creating shared value and meaning with your partner
- Have more fun with your partner and in your relationship
Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT)
Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), developed by Dr. Sue Johnson, is the gold standard approach for working with distressed couples. EFT is a type of therapy that is rooted in attachment science and bonding. EFT asks the couple and therapist to work together to discover the interactional patterns in a couple’s relationship and consider how those patterns are fueling the conflict and distress the couple is experiencing.
EFT allows couples to externalize their problems and focus on how they can work together to disrupt negative cycles that are causing conflict. Couples are then able to reorganize their responses to each other and better meet their partner’s needs while having their own needs met as well.
Couples Therapy is available in person in Richland serving the Tri-Cities (Kennewick, Pasco, and Richland). Services are also available virtually for couples throughout Washington State through Telehealth.
