People who are not happy in their marriages can turn to mental health professionals for help, not realizing that therapy could make things worse. I'm not talking about bad couples therapy, although therapists who lack training in effective couples therapy can certainly do more harm than good. When done wrong, it can make things worse, Gehart said. There won't be any real change instantly and it can get worse before it gets better, but if your therapist is good, it doesn't have to be torture.
Although my sessions with couples can be intense, they usually leave the room feeling better than they entered. That's because we focus on them connecting and relating to each other instead of me giving them a bunch of advice. Does anyone have a good experience with marriage counseling? I hope so. In my experience, marriage counseling made things worse.
Sure, there are couples who without marriage counseling may have decided to leave their relationship and get divorced, but in all honesty I think most of those who get a lot from therapy would stay together or get together even without the help of a marriage therapist, but that therapy accelerates their growth and intimacy or does make it much easier to overcome painful conflicts.
