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Couples Therapy & Marriage Counseling
Dishes, the house, the kids, groceries…every day feels like a battle and nothing seems to be working between you and your partner. The only time you notice each other is when the other person has done something wrong. Again. You fight and argue about all the details of living day to day but you aren’t fighting about what really matters.
This is not what you imagined your marriage would be.
You stare at your phones in between the arguments and try to muster up the energy to take care of everyone else. It feels like you don’t even exist in each other’s eyes. It feels like your only option is to avoid each other so you don’t break out into another door-slamming kind of argument.
When you first got married, you both swore that your relationship wouldn’t turn out to be the way your parents’ marriage was. You thought that this relationship was different than the ones that came before it.
Truth be told, the thoughts of the marriage ending scare you, but they are there. Nothing seems to be changing. Staying in the relationship for the kids no longer seems like a reason to be bickering all the time. As your kids get older and as you both grow and change, it feels like you have less in common than ever before.
You’re mad, and scared, and lonely.
Level-up your communication skills through the topics that are most difficult for couples
At Harper Therapy, we help couples break out of the monotony of having kids, working and going to soccer practices. Through couples counseling and relationship help, you and your partner discover what you really need and how to fight FOR your relationship — not about your relationship. You’ll begin to understand how the relationships that predate your marriage are showing up in the arguments you have with your partner now.
During your couples therapy and counseling sessions, you will work on healing past hurt so that you can truly see your partner and be truly seen in return.
You’ll see how the difficult things that you’ve both survived in your past can either bring you together more intimately or drive a wedge between you. We will help you to remember that you’re on the same team, and help you recreate that safe place for each of you to land in a chaotic world. A place to be truly, intimately seen, heard, and loved. Your relationship is not doomed… you can rediscover the happiness and security that your relationship once offered.
Dividing up Tasks
Finances
Navigating Extended Family Dynamics
Sex
Meet Julie
Licensed clinical social worker
I see you. You’re in a relationship or have been in relationships that have been committed and fulfilling to a point. It’s hard to believe that someone can care about you the way your partner does or the way you care for others.
Meet Elaine
registered SOCIAL WORKER intern
Finding a sense of balance within your relationship can feel daunting. Creating understanding around difficult situations that have occurred in your relationship is hard. Emotions continue to bubble up, but it is at a point that you find it difficult to name all of them. I can help you establish trust in your relationship. I can help you find that balance.
Meet Yolanda
Licensed Clinical Social Worker
You notice you and your significant other no longer have positive interactions and all you do is fight. You blame yourself for others actions and feel that “maybe I am just not good enough”. You’re tired of the same old pattern of feeling as if there is nothing positive about you or your relationship. It is normal for your past to shape you for both good and bad, but a past trauma does not need to be something that defines you. I will help you learn ways to set boundaries and communicate more effectively in your relationship.
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Couples Therapy & Marriage Counseling in Lutz, Florida
Harper Therapy provides couples therapy, marriage counseling and relationship help at their offices in Lutz, Florida near Tampa. Our therapists also serve Land O’ Lakes, Wesley Chapel and the entire Tampa Bay area -including Clearwater and St. Petersburg.