Couples Counseling

Find a Safe Space With Gay Couples Counseling

If you’re in a lesbian or gay relationship, we understand the potential challenges you may face. We strive to provide you and your partner with a safe, nonjudgemental space to voice your concerns. 

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Whether you’ve been married for 30 years or dating for two weeks, LGBT couples counseling may help you add to the growth and development of your relationship. Speaking with a counselor can help you and your partner build the foundation for a long-lasting relationship that addresses both of your needs. You may also:

• Learn to oppose your partner respectfully.
• Gain a secure environment to restore trust and an opportunity to heal.
• Build relationship resilience and restore emotional health.
• Restore physical and emotional intimacy. 
• Create better understanding and encourage acceptance of one another.
• Discover the root cause of significant conflicts. 
• Feel honored and heard in your relationship, regardless of your gender identity or expression.
• Overcome fears of being criticized or judged by the people around you.
• Learn how to identify your and your partner’s feelings.
• Heal stress from societal expectations while integrating more happiness into your relationship.

Taylor Counseling Group strives to create a safe and supportive environment for you to voice your concerns and ask questions. A relationship is comprised of individuals, meaning for the partnership to thrive, the individuals within it must feel supported, cherished and heard. We’ll encourage you to discuss any topics you feel would be beneficial to you and your partner when you come to us.

When to Go to Couples Therapy vs. Individual Therapy

Couples therapy helps you and your partner learn effective communication to enrich your relationship, give you emotional satisfaction, save you time on solving conflicts and reach resolutions for relationship issues.

Couples sessions are typically conducted with both partners present. In some instances, your therapist might meet with you individually before or after to ensure you can express anything you were unable to during the session. Your couples counselor may act as an impartial mediator as you and your partner interact.

It may be valuable for you and your partner to seek individual counseling outside your couples therapy session. You can then decide what you want to bring from individual sessions to your combined counseling appointments. Individual therapy may be valuable if you find the need to address past hurts. Also, if your partner is unwilling to attend therapy with you, you can still benefit from individual counseling.

Individual Therapy

Individual counseling is a one-on-one interaction between you and the therapist. The sole focus is on improving your well-being and creating a safe, nurturing environment for transformation and healing. The therapist builds a rapport with you and works to understand your unique perspective and needs, providing techniques, tools and tips that fit your personality and views.

Couples Therapy

Couples therapy is structured differently than individual counseling — it is more intensive for some. Your therapist focuses equally on each partner, on your relationship and exclusively on the problems and goals affecting the relationship. The therapist is not there to take sides or prove one party right or wrong. They listen to both perspectives and provide a safe space for you and your partner to communicate, express yourself and attempt to find common ground.

Due to couples counseling being vastly different from individual therapy, it is essential to choose a therapist who specializes in couples therapy. They should help facilitate a safe space where you and your partner can be heard, managing anger, frustration and other big emotions effectively.

Couples seek therapy for various reasons. It may be to improve communication, address infidelity, increase intimacy or deal with an obstacle. Your therapist’s role is to resolve conflict, and the overall goal of couples therapy is to learn to resolve the barriers together, improving communication within the relationship. An experienced relationship therapist will provide insights, observations and perspectives to help you and your partner see where you’re missing each other in communication and the relationship overall.