Therapy for Midlife
Helping You Navigate the Midlife Transition & Beyond
Navigating Couples Challenges in Midlife: Strengthening Your Relationship
Is Your Relationship Facing New Challenges in Midlife?
By midlife, we can often look at our partner and see a stranger. Many couples find themselves struggling to connect and find intimacy.
The Good News? Therapy for Midlife can help you get back in touch with each other after years of growing apart, address intimacy concerns and help you meaningfully redefine your relationship for this stage in life.
Common Challenges Couples Face in Midlife
Midlife often brings significant transition that can strain even the healthiest of relationships.
Small disagreements may escalate into larger issues without the tools to communicate effectively.
These shifts along with financial disagreements can bring stress and anxiety that spill over into your relationship.
Relationships can be affected by fears of mortality, diminished physical capabilities or changes in physical intimacy.
Balancing the roles of caregivers for children and/or aging parents can strain emotional resources and lead to tension within the relationship.
Many couples in midlife feel disconnected from one another or struggle with the physical aspects of aging that impact sexual closeness.
With children leaving home, many couples struggle to redefine their relationship.
How Therapy for Midlife Can Help
- Improved communication that helps you resolve conflicts more constructively.
- Renewed intimacy and closeness, both emotionally and physically.
- Trust Rebuilding for improved connection.
- Deeper understanding of each other’s needs, hopes and concerns.
- Greater resilience in facing life’s challenges together.
- Better navigation of life’s transitions together.
- Stronger and more fulfilling partnership as you move through the next stages of life.
You’ve built a life together. With new insights and the right tools, you can continue to grow and thrive.
Midlife Specific Couples Therapy
Therapy for Midlife blends several evidence-based approaches to couples in midlife:
Based on over 40 years of research, the Gottman Method emphasizes building a strong foundation of friendship, managing conflict in a healthy way and creating shared meaning in your relationship.
EFT focuses on identifying and reshaping the emotional responses that drive relationship conflicts. It helps couples create a secure emotional bond by fostering understanding and empathy.
Address differences in desire, lack of intimacy and sexual performance concerns with effective communication skills, tools to enhance your sexual relationship and mindfulness based practices.
Midlife Can be a Time for Rebuilding, Rediscovering and Renewing your Connection
It’s Never Too Late to Invest In Your Relationship.