Convincing your partner to go for couples therapy

Sometimes both partners recognise the issues in a relationship but one may be apprehensive about couples therapy.

Here are some of the ways you can encourage your partner to try couples therapy:

👉🏼 Focus on timing. Talk when both of you are calm and receptive

👉🏼 Use a communication style that is most likely to be received well by your partner

👉🏼 Share your openness to use therapy to understand your own contributions to the problems and talk about your willingness to do your bit to make things better

👉🏼 Discuss and share therapist details and let them do their research as well. They can also speak to the therapist to get comfortable

👉🏼 Tell them that they can openly ask questions and share concerns with the therapist and most therapists would be happy to address them

👉🏼 Give them an option to say ‘no’; chances are that they will come back with a ‘yes’ after some time if their autonomy is respected

👉🏼 Be invitational in your approach vs. being demanding or threatening

👉🏼 Assure them about the neutrality of the therapeutic process

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