marriage therapist

Relationship repair specialist

A marriage therapist is a mental health professional who helps couples work through relationship difficulties.

Sessions typically address communication problems, conflicts, intimacy issues, or decisions about staying together.

The term is interchangeable with couples therapist or couples counselor, though marriage therapist implies a focus on married partners: We started seeing a marriage therapist after the affair.

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couples counseling · trust-building · emotional affair · emotional regulation · power dynamics · family dynamics · couch · attachment styles · clinical psychologist · tears · silence · tissues · stress management · intimacy issues · growing apart · apology · patience · date night

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professional goal/outcome

marriage therapistdivorce attorney

Lawyer for marital endings

divorce lawyer · family law attorney · divorce mediator · custody lawyer

relationship stance

marriage therapisthomewrecker

One blamed for infidelity

mistress · affair partner · other woman · other man · commitment-phobe

Family

marriage, therapist, married, marrying, unmarried, marriageable, remarry, remarriage, therapy

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