How Does St Louis Marriage Therapy LLC Address Conflict in Couples Counseling?

In couples counseling, we address conflict by teaching clients how to address it directly and respectfully. We focus on helping couples handle conflict more productively and provide them with tools to address conflicts on their own.

Angela Skurtu | Therapist in St. Louis

How to Practice Self Compassion

Conflict Resolution, Depression, Self Care, Stress, Video / By Angela Skurtu

The more I do this work, the more I realize how important it is for me to help clients practice self compassion. We, as a society, are very unkind to ourselves in our minds. On a weekly basis, I say to my clients, “You are being so hard on yourself.” When you do this, it impacts every area of your life. It impacts your ability to have patience. It impacts your ability to have compassion for your partner or your children. It impacts your ability to learn new skills or take in feedback from a boss.

In this video, I teach clients how to stop beating themselves up and start creating a mental environment where actual growth is possible. This is the number one skill needed for emotional intelligence.

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How to Have Hard Conversations

In this video, we discuss how to start hard conversations. There truly are difficult conversations you need to have at times with a partner, a family member or a loved one. For example, how do you bring up with someone that you think they have a mental illness? How do you tell your spouse you aren’t happy with your sex life? How do you bring up the topic of dementia? These aren’t easy subjects and yet we need to face these conversations head on to really make progress in our lives. This video gives a basic format for starting these conversations.