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What is Relationship Coaching?
Relationship coaching is similar to life coaching, except that where a life coach would focus on making you the best “you” that you can be, a relationship coach will instead seek to help a person derive greater fulfillment in their personal relationships. A relationship coach will often help you to set realistic and attainable relationship goals, understand your current partnership or relationship dynamic, thrive inside your marriage, grieve a lost loved-one, or take your long-term romance to the next level.
Relationship coaches are not just for married people. Relationship coaches often have experience and training that helps them to understand various relationship dynamics, from romantic relationships to family relations and friendships.
Depending on the situation, it is not always necessary to work with both partners in a relationship. This is one important difference between relationship coaching and relationship counseling. Coaching is intended to help clients let go of their own painful thoughts, and create and then actualize their own personal relationship vision. Because this is coaching rather than counseling, clients are able to enjoy an increasingly satisfying relationship even without their partner’s participation in the process.
Relationship coaches also work with people who are not yet in a relationship. Think of this sort of like “preventative maintenance.” They will work with singles who have a history of troubled, abusive or unsatisfying relationships, or those who have difficulty knowing what they want from a relationship, or even people who just want to create and then follow a plan that will allow them to find a deeper connection with someone.
Relationship coaches, just like life coaches, take healthy people and make them high performing. A relationship coach can help you quickly uncover the essence of what you want out of a partnership, guide you around painful issues, and create a safe space for you as you come face to face with your fears and discover your true desires.
Is Relationship Coaching the Same as “Couples Therapy?”
Relationship coaching is not “couples therapy,” just as life coaching is not psychotherapy. A relationship coach can help you clear up your thought process, get a different perspective, or help you set inspiring new goals. However, couples therapy would be recommended in cases where the problems too big or complex for coaching to handle.
If there are unhealed childhood wounds or deep trauma due to past relationships, a coach may encourage you to seek Couples Therapy, where you will be able to dive deeply into the causes of your relationship troubles instead.
Unlike therapy, relationship coaching rarely requires you to re-tell your childhood story, but sometimes it can help you find peace with where you are now.
Can a Relationship Coach Save my Marriage?
While relationship coaching might help untangle love knots, it is not for couples who are trying to “save” their marriage.
Coaching is more about clarifying relationship issues and helping people to separate the things that we can control with the things we cannot. It brings the bright light of awareness into the hidden corners of resentment, fear and avoidance.
Coaching has been shown to improve relationships, even if only one spouse chooses to work with a coach. When one person in a relationship can let go of their mental suffering, the burden and stresses impacting the marriage could also be reduced as well.
Ready to try Relationship Coaching?
Marriages often benefit from coaching, but each marriage has its own unique set of difficulties, so it is impossible to say whether or not a marriage will grow stronger through the process of coaching. If you want to learn more about relationship coaching, please know that we are here for you. Help is available.
We encourage you to contact Stedfast Psychiatry and take the first step toward living your best life today. We serve patients from Boynton Beach FL, Palm Beach Gardens FL, Jupiter FL, West Palm Beach FL, Lake Worth FL, Riviera Beach FL, Delray Beach FL, Lake Park FL, Boca Raton FL, and North Palm Beach FL.