Relationship Coaching for Couples
Welcome to the leading Couples Coaching page on the internet to learn more about the burgeoning industry!
What's the problem for couples?
Relationships are hard work. While falling in love is easy, staying in love is not. Unresolved conflicts, unmet needs, opposing expectations, and miscommunication are just some of the issues facing couples. Add to those issues the struggle with emotional intimacy, physical intimacy, finances, parenting, and in-laws and you have many mounting problems.
What's the solution for couples?
Couples coaching is the solution. Working with a couples coach provides support, direction, and accountability to move your relationship from surviving to thriving and from roommates to lovers.
All of the relationship coaches in our directory have been trained by licensed psychologist Dr. Wyatt Fisher in his ICF accredited FRCA Relationship Coach Certification program.
Our coaches specialize in helping couples resolve their resentments because all levels of connection stop when couples have active resentments. It's hard to feel like friends and be intimate with someone you resent.
What's the difference between couples coaching and couples therapy?
1-Past vs. Future
Most therapy focuses on the past. It will explore each partner's family of origin and unpack trauma, wounds, and patterns picked up in their childhood. In contrast, relationship coaching focuses more on what couples can do differently moving forward regardless of their background.
2-Feelings vs. Tools
Most therapy focuses on feelings. Sessions are spent exploring each partner's negative emotions and expressing them toward one another. In contrast, couples coaching focuses on learning tools and skills to improve the couple's relationship.
3-Low Functioning vs. Moderate Functioning
Most therapy focuses on low functioning individuals with significant mental health problems or addictions and how those are impairing their marriage. In contrast, relationship coaching focuses on moderate to high functioning individuals who do not have mental health problems or addictions and want to move their marriage from surviving to thriving.
What happens in relationship coaching for couples?
Common areas addressed in couples coaching include conflict resolution, communication, parenting, finances, emotional intimacy, sexual intimacy, uneven workload, sharing power, and in laws.
Phase One- Resolve Your Resentments:
All appointments are virtual for convenience. For the first session, the relationship coach will meet with each partner individually for 15 minutes to hear their backstory. Then, the remaining 15 minutes will be spent consolidating the couple's top areas of resentments. Subsequent sessions in phase one will be spent working through each resentment because nothing goes well in a relationship until all resentments are healed.
Phase Two- Build Your Skills:
Once all resentments have been addressed, couples will be trained on the top tools required to build a successful relationship. For example, the tools will teach couples how to have effective conflict resolution, nurture emotional intimacy, and communicate effectively.
Phase Three- Stay In Love:
The last phase of coaching will train couples on how to fall back in love and stay in love well into the future through regular feedback from their partner. Couples are encouraged to keep working with their coach until they both receive +20 and above consistently on their love buckets.
*Most couples need around 6 months of weekly couples coaching to successfully work through all 3 phases. However, some couples only need 3-4 months if they are highly motivated and teachable.
If your relationship was going to get better on its own it already would have. You go the the mechanic for your car, the dentist for your teeth, and the plumber for your toilet, see a couples coach for your relationship!
Couples Coaching Directory
All couples coaching sessions are virtual to maximize convenience regardless of your geographical location.
