What Is Couples Counseling?
Couples counseling, also known as marriage counseling, is a type of counseling for intimate partners. It involves exploration of any conflicts between the partners, is often short term, and focuses on specific problems.1 Other goals of couples counseling are to improve communication and interactions and to strengthen relationships.
Couples counseling is sometimes referred to as couples therapy or marriage therapy, but the terms “therapy” and “counseling,” actually, are different.
