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.

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How to Have Hard Conversations

Communication Skills, Conflict Resolution, Stress, Video / By Angela Skurtu

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.

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How to Express your Emotions

Many people come to therapy are told they need to share their emotions. For some, this feels like a daunting task. Sharing feelings was not a common thing growing up. Perhaps the idea of talking about feelings sounds like a nightmare. I have even had clients who honestly are not in touch with their feelings. In this video, we discuss ways clients can learn to share how they feel by first recognizing when they have feelings.