What Are The Distinctive Types Of Marriage/Family Counseling

Family counseling/marriage counseling helps a couple rekindle the lost spark or romance in their relationship. Normally, when a couple faces conflict, they prefer sorting out their grievances by themselves. However, sometimes when the matter is beyond their scope of fixing, they may turn to a professional for help. Family counseling comes in various forms and some of the most accessible forms of family counseling are:

·       Family Counseling

·       Married Couple Counseling

·       Individual Marriage Counseling

·       Group Marriage Counseling

·       Web Marriage Counseling

We shall elaborate on these individual types of counseling further in the article. Let us first understand what web marriage counseling is. Web Marriage Counseling is an effective and useful method of marriage counseling. The counseling psychologist leading the therapy session essentially guides the couple through their problems and teaches them techniques to resolve problems in a healthy manner. It is important for couples to remember that a therapist will not choose a side and say who is right or who is wrong. The therapist’s role in web marriage counseling is to merely hold relationship educational programs that can benefit couples. These programs can be either downloadable guides or video-oriented programs. These programs feel personal, and the couple will feel like the counselor is directly talking to them. These programs help the couple to restore their intimacy, improve sexual contact, solve communication problems and repair a broken relationship in a healthy manner.

Family Marriage Counseling - Family therapy or family counseling is primarily concerned with solving different problems within the family unit that mushroom from different situations and cause anxiety and difficulties. These troubles may significantly affect members within the family unit especially children and hence it becomes important to involve the entire family in the process of therapy so that it can benefit everybody equally.

Couple Marriage Counseling - Couple counseling is a type of psychological therapy that personally involves a married couple or an unmarried couple that is facing significant turmoil in their relationship. It is important for both members in the relationship to be open, involved and participate in the counseling sessions for it to be effective. This type of therapy helps couples resolve problems, communicate and restore their original level of functioning.

Individual Marriage Counseling - It is often observed in a relationship that one partner in a relationship is more enthusiastically inclined to go an extra mile to keep the relationship alive and happy. It so happens that the other partner is not convinced to attend therapy, and that is when this type of counseling is important. This type of counseling is also used when one partner in the relationship is facing a unique set of problems that need to be taken care of privately.

Group Marriage Counseling - This type of counseling is not very widely and famously used because most often couples like to keep their problems private and don’t prefer discussing them in front of others – especially strangers. Even though this method of counseling is not very common, it is definitely very helpful. It is important for couples who have become astray from the concept of being affectionate to their partner in public and can be especially positively pressing because couples don’t pay much mind to their behaviour towards their partner in private counseling sessions. This type of counseling is also significantly more affordable than individual counseling sessions.